978 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



peristoma ; face white : first and second joints of the feelers ferrugi- 

 nous ; third joint more than twice the length of the second : under 

 side of the abdomen dull ferruginous. Length of the body 2 lines ; 

 of the wings 4 lines. 



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

 G. Barnstou, Esq. 



Cordylura iEa, n. s., fern. Cana, abdomine fusco sexmaculato, 

 palpis antennisque nigris, pedibus fulvis, femoribus cinereis, alis 



Body hoary, clothed with black hairs and bristles : sides of the 

 face without bristles ; epistoma rather prominent : eyes red : a 

 stripe of the fore part nearly flat, its facets much larger than those 

 elsewhere : sucker black, clothed with tawny hairs ; palpi black, be- 

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

 third joint nearly twice the length of the second, very slightly de- 

 creasing in depth from the base to the tip, which is obliquely trun- 

 cated ; bristle much more than twice the length of the third joint, 

 its second joint of moderate length ; third joint clothed with very 

 short black hairs for half the length from the base, which is stout : 

 abdomen elliptical, deep, slightly compressed, a little longer and 

 narrower than the chest ; a brown spot on each side of the third, 

 fourth, and fifth segments : legs tawny, clothed with black hairs 

 and bristles, which are longest and most frequent on the shanks ; 

 thighs gray, with tawny tips ; feet dark tawny, with black tips ; 

 claws black ; foot-cushions large, pale yellow : wings colourless or 

 whitish ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; lower cross-vein straight, 

 about twice its length distant from the middle cross-vein ; scales 

 large, white, the lower extending far beyond the upper; poisers 

 tawny. Length of the body 2\ lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 

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



G. Barnston, Esq. 



Scatophaga, Latreille. 

 * Feeler-bristle hairy. 



Scatophaga formosa, M. B. Wied. Auss. Ziveif. ii. 447, 1. 



a. Nepaul. From the Hardwicke bequest. 



b. North India. From Mrs. L. James' collection. 



