960 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



the tip: chest gray, with three indistinct darker stripes: breast 

 paler gray : abdomen elliptical, fawn-coloured, a little longer and 

 broader than the chest : legs tawny, clothed with black hairs and 

 bristles; feet black; foot-cushions pale tawny: wings very pale 

 gray, tinged with tawny at the base, and more slightly so along the 

 borders of the veins ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny towards 

 the base ; lower cross-vein clouded with brown, having three very 

 indistinct curves, the first and the third outward, the middle one in- 

 ward ; scales rather large, pale gray with tawny borders, the lower 

 extending much beyond the upper ; poisers tawny. Length of the 

 body 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



a. Haparanda. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



b. Isle of Soroe. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



c. Hammerfest. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



Anthomyia Mervinia, n. s., mas. Nigra, capite cano, thorace fas- 

 ciis duabusjlavis, abdomine Jtavo, segmentorum marginibus pos- 

 ticis fuscis, palpis nigris antennis piceis, pedibus fulvis, alis 

 subfulvis. 



Body black, clothed with black hairs and bristles : head 

 adorned with a hoary covering ; sides of the face without bristles ; 

 epistoma slightly prominent : eyes red ; fore part rather flat, its fa- 

 cets larger than those elsewhere : sucker pitchy, clothed with tawny 

 hairs ; palpi black, beset with black bristles : feelers pitchy, a little 

 shorter than the face ; third joint linear, rounded at the tip, nearly 

 thrice the length of the second ; bristle black, bare, more than twice 

 the length of the third joint : chest adorned with two broad pale 

 yellow bands : abdomen yellow, oval, a little broader but not longer 

 than the chest ; hind borders of the segments brown : legs tawny, 

 clothed with black hairs and bristles : wings rather short, with a 

 very slight tawny tinge ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny 

 at the base ; lower cross-vein straight, very oblique, distant by its 

 length from the middle cross-vein ; scales large, white with tawny 

 borders, the lower extending far beyond the upper. Length of the 

 body 2| lines ; of the wings 4| lines. 

 a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



Dry me i a, Meigen. 



Drymeia obscura, Meig. Dipt. v. 234, 1. Desv. Essai Myod. 561. 



1. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 322, 1. Musca hamata, Fall. 



Muse. 57. 

 a. England. 



