LIST OF DIPTERA. 907 



Musca dorsalis, n. s., mas. et fem. Fulva, capite supra ferrugineo 

 ad ocellos piceo, thoracis abdominisque discis cyaneo-cinereis, pal- 

 pis antennis yedibusque fulvis, tarsis nigris, alis subcinereis basi 

 fulvis. 



Body tawny : head ferruginous above, pitchy about the eyelets, 

 clothed beneath with golden hairs ; epistoma prominent ; sides of 

 the face fringed with hairs along two-thirds of the length : eyes red ; 

 fore part flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere : sucker 

 black ; palpi tawny, beset with black bristles : feelers tawny, nearly 

 as long as the face; third joint linear, pitchy, rounded at the tip, 

 tawny beneath and at the base, about six limes the length of the se- 

 cond ; bristle pitchy, longer than the third joint, feathered to the 

 tip with long hairs : chest bluish gray : scutcheon blue : back of 

 the abdomen adorned with a brond bluish stripe : legs tawny, 

 clothed with black hairs and bristles; feet black; foot-cushions 

 tawny : wings slightly gray, tawny at the base ; tip cross-vein with 

 two distinct curves, the upper outward, deeper than the other, which 

 is inward ; scales pale tawny ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 

 4i lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by J. Hunter, Esq. 



b. New Holland. 



Group III. Nitellia, Desv. Essai Myod. 417. 



Musca vespillo, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. 318, 26. Syst. AntL 292, 39. 

 Meig. Dipt. v. 65,27, vi.'374. Fall. Act. Holm. 1816, 247, 

 23. Muse. 47, 23. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 658, 20. Var. a. et £. 

 M. sepulcralis, Meig. Dipt. v. 71, 34, vii. 300, 10. Volucella 

 corvina, Schrank, Faun. Boic. iii. 2496. Musca recurvo ? 

 Harr. Ex. 85, pi. 25, /. 17. Nitellia vespillo, Desv. Essai 

 Myod. 417, 1 . Sarcophaga vespillo, Zett. Dipt. Scand. iv. 1 307, 

 28. 



a. England. 



b. Frauce. 



c. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



d. Ukraine. Presented by Dr. Dowler. 



e. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 

 /. Nova Scotia. 



g. ? Presented by the Entomological Club. 



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