906 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Musca rudis, Fair. Syst. Anil. 287, 16. Fall. Muse. 48, 24. Meig. 

 Dipt. v. 66, 28, v'ii. 301, 38. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 659, 22. Dipt. 

 Scand iv. 1339, 11 . Pollenia rudis, Desv. Essai Myod. 414, 4. 

 Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 269, I, pi. 16, /. 18. 



a. England. 



b. France. 



Musca Lsemica, White's MSS., mas. Fulva, capite supra nigro, 

 thoracis disco cinereo vittis sex fuscis, abdomine viridi aureo tes- 

 sel/ato, antenuis nigris basi ferrugineis, palpis pedibusque fulvis, 

 tarsis nigris, alis limpidis basi fulvis. 



Body tawny, clothed with black hairs and bristles : head black 

 above, pale tawny in front, thickly clothed beneath with golden 

 hairs ; a pitchy stripe widening from the eyelets to the feelers ; fa- 

 cials obliquely striated ; epistoma prominent ; sides of the face 

 fringed with bristles along half the length : eyes brassy red ; fore 

 part flat, composed of much larger facets than those elsewhere : 

 sucker black, pitchy and clothed with pale tawny hairs at the tip ; 

 palpi bright tawny, slender, slightly clavate, beset with black bris- 

 tles : feelers black, a little shorter tban the face ; first and second 

 joints ferruginous ; third joint linear, rounded at the tip, full four 

 times the length of the second ; bristle very much longer than the 

 third joint: disk of the^chest gray, adorned with six indistinct dark 

 brown stripes ; breast thinly clothed with golden hairs : abdomen 

 dark green, obconical, a ..little shorter and [broader tban the chest, 

 tessellated with golden reflections, thickly clothed at the base and 

 beneath with bright golden hairs: legs pale tawny, clothed with 

 black hairs and bristles ; feet black ; foot-cushions dark tawny : 

 wings colourless, tawny at the base ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins 

 black, ferruginous towards the base ; tip cross-vein forming hardly 

 more tban a right angle with tbe fourth longitudinal vein, curved 

 inward near the base, straight from thence to the tip, joiuing the 

 border at some distance above the tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein 

 with two curves, the lower inward, the other outward and very much 

 deeper than the first ; scales pale gray ; poisers tawny. Length of 

 the body 4^ — 5 lines ; of the wings 9 — 10 lines. 



a. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Sinclair. 



b. New Holland. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



c. South Sea Isles. Presented by Capt. Sir E. Home. 



d. Swan River. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



e. Swan River. From Mr. Turner's collection. 



f. West Australia. From Mr. Clifton's collection. 



