970 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



eyes red ; fore part rather flat, its facets much larger than those else- 

 where : sucker pitchy, clothed with tawny hairs ; palpi tawny, beset 

 with black bristles : feelers deep black, shorter than the face ; third 

 joint linear, slender, rounded at the tip, about thrice the length of 

 the second, which is dark ferruginous ; bristle black, slender, downy, 

 rather stout for one-third of the length from the base, full twice the 

 length of the third joint : chest and breast gray : disk of the chest 

 with a tawny tinge, adorned with three slender brown stripes : abdo- 

 men gray, spindle-shaped, adorned with a large triangular hoary 

 spot on each side of the fore border of every segment, ferruginous at 

 the tip beneath, longer and a little narrower than the chest: legs 

 dark tawny, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; feet black, tawny 

 towards the base ; claws black ; foot-cushions pale tawny : wings 

 gray ; cross-veins clouded with brown ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins 

 black, tawny towards the base ; lower cross-vein almost straight, 

 slightly oblique, separated by more than its length from the middle 

 cross-vein, which is stouter and more oblique ; scales of moderate 

 size, whitish with pale yellow borders, the lower extending beyond 

 the upper ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 2\ lines ; of the 

 wings 4i lines. 

 a. New Zealand. 



Cjenosia sex-maculata, Barnstorms MSS., fern. Nigro-cinerea, 

 capite antico albo micante, ihorace fusco trivittato, abdomine 

 fusco sex-maculato, palpis fulvis, antennis piceis, pedibus nigro- 

 cinereis, tibiisfulvis, tarsis piceis, alis subcinereis basi fulvis. 

 Body black, clothed with black hairs and bristles : head 

 adorned with white lustre in front, beneath, and on each side of the 

 crown ; a ferruginous stripe tapering from the eyelets to the base of 

 the feelers ; sides of the face without bristles ; epistoma not promi- 

 nent : eyes red ; a small space of the fore part flat, and composed of 

 much larger facets than those elsewhere : sucker black, pitchy and 

 clothed with tawny hairs at the tip ; palpi pale tawny, beset with 

 black bristles: feelers pitchy, shorter than the face; third joint 

 linear, rounded at the tip, more than twice the length of the second ; 

 first and second joints ferruginous ; bristle black, bare, much more 

 than twice the length of the third joint: chest and breast gray: 

 chest adorned with three brown stripes: abdomen gray, elliptical, 

 longer than the chest, adorned with three dark brown spots on each 

 side : legs clothed with black hairs and bristles ; hips and thighs 

 black, tinged with gray ; shanks tawny ; feet pitchy ; claws black ; 

 foot-cushions dark tawny : wings slightly gray, tawny at the base : 

 wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; cross-vein nearly 

 straight, far from the border ; scales rather large, white with pale 



