946 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



white stripes : abdomen whitish tawny on each side, adorned with a 

 very broad rich brown stripe, which occupies the whole of the base, 

 widens on the hind border of each segment, and contains a narrow 

 whitish stripe ; tip somewhat ferruginous : legs black, clothed with 

 black hairs and bristles ; foot-cushions pitchy : wings slightly 

 brown ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous towards the 

 base ; lower cross-vein straight, with the exception of a very slight 

 inward curve in the middle part of its course ; scales of moderate 

 size, dingy white, with pale tawny borders, the lower not extending 

 beyond the upper ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 2^ lines ; 

 of the wings 4£ lines. 

 a. Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Anthomyia Donuca, n. s., mas. Nigra, capite albo micante, tho- 

 race fulvo-cinereo subvittato, abdomine Jlavo-cano tessellato, pal- 

 pis antennis pedibusque nigris, alis subcinereis basi subfulvis. 

 Body black, clothed with black hairs and bristles : head 

 adorned with white lustre ; sides of the face with one or two bris- 

 tles at the base ; epistoma not prominent : eyes red ; fore part ra- 

 ther flat, its facets a little larger than those elsewhere : sucker 

 pitchy, clothed towards the tip with tawny hairs ; palpi black, be- 

 set with black bristles : feelers black, a little shorter than the face ; 

 third joint linear, slightly rounded at the tip, rather more than 

 twice the length of the second joint ; bristle nearly thrice the length 

 of the third joint, its second joint of moderate length, third joint 

 downy, stout at the base, slender from thence to the tip : chest 

 adorned with a gray covering, which has a very slight tawny tinge 

 and is indistinctly striped : abdomen obconical, tessellated with 

 yellowish hoary reflections, a little longer and narrower than the 

 chest : legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; foot- 

 cushions dull tawny, wings pale gray, with a slight tawny tinge 

 at the base ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins pitchy, tawny towards the base ; 

 lower cross-vein straight ; scales rather small, white, with pale yel- 

 low borders, the lower not extending beyond the upper ; poisers 

 yellow, tawny at the base. Length of the body 3^ lines ; of the 

 wings 7 lines. 

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



Anthomyia Brixia, n. s. fern. Nigra, capite argenteo micante, tho- 

 racis vittis duabus Lateribus pectoreque canis, abdominis segmen- 

 torum lateribus cano maculatis, palpis antennisque nigris, pedi- 

 bus piceis, alis subfuscis. 

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



head adorned with bright silvery lustre, which forms a stripe on 



