926 LIST OF DIPTERA 



Anthomyia nigrita, Meig. Dipt. v. 110, 48. Musca nigrita, Fall. 



Muse. 60, 53. 

 a. England. 



Anthomyia palposa, Barnstoris MSS., fem. Nigra, capite antico 

 argenteo, antennis palpis pedibusque nigris, alis cinereis. 

 Body black, clothed with black hairs and bristles : front of the 

 head adorned with silvery lustre ; epistoma not prominent ; sides of 

 the face without bristles : eyes dark red ; fore part flat, its facets 

 larger than those elsewhere : sucker and palpi black, hairy : feelers 

 black, much shorter than the face ; third joint linear, rounded at 

 the tip, about twice the length of the second joint ; bristle feathered 

 with long hairs, twice ? the length of the third joint : abdomen el- 

 liptical, a little longer, but not broader than the chest : legs black, 

 clothed with black hairs and bristles ; foot-cushions pitchy : wings 

 gray ; wing-ribs and veins black ; tip cross-vein straight ; scales 

 dingy white, with tawny borders, the lower extending far beyond 

 the upper ; poisers ferruginous. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the 

 wings 5 lines. 



a. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay. Presented by 

 G. Barnston, Esq. 



Anthomyia spinosa, Barnstonh MSS., mas. et fem. Nigra, capite 



antice cano micante, abdomine nigro-ceneo setoso, palpis antennis 



pedibusque nigris, alis cinereis. 



Body black, thickly clothed with black hairs and bristles ; front 

 of the head adorned with hoary lustre ; epistoma not prominent ; 

 sides of the face without bristles ; sucker and palpi black : eyes 

 pitchy, convex ; all the facets very small : feelers black, nearly as 

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

 the length of the second joint; bristle feathered with long hairs to 

 the tip, more than twice the length of the third joint : abdomen el- 

 liptical, brassy black, longer, but not broader than the chest, very 

 thickly beset with stout black bristles : legs black, clothed with 

 black hairs and bristles ; foot-cushions tawny ; claws long : wings 

 gray ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy at the base ; lower 

 cross-vein with three curves, the lower and the upper curves out- 

 ward, the latter much more distinct than the former, as is also the 

 middle one, which is inward ; scales dingy white, with pale tawny 

 borders ; poisers tawny. Female. — Abdomen bronze black, tinged 

 with gray, less hairy than that of the male. Length of the body 4 

 lines; of the wiugs 7 lines. 

 a. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay. Presented hj 



G. Barnston, Esq. 



