LIST OF DIPTERA. 981 



Scatophaga pallida, n. s. fern. Fulva, palpis Jlavis, antennis ful- 

 vis, abdominis apice ferrugineo, pedibus Jlavis, tarsis anticis 

 fulvis, alis limpidis. 



Body pale tawny, thinly beset with black bristles : head clothed 

 beneath with a few pale tawny hairs ; face white, bordered with yel- 

 low ; a single black bristle on each side at the base ; epistoma not 

 prominent : eyes red, convex ; the facets very small, but rather 

 larger on the fore part than elsewhere : sucker ferruginous, clothed 

 with tawny hairs ; palpi pale yellow, beset with black bristles : feel- 

 ers pale tawny, shorter than the face ; third joint linear, rounded at 

 the tip, much longer than the second ; bristle black, feathered with 

 hairs of moderate length, stout at the base, near twice the length of 

 the third joint : disk of the chest tawny, abdomen a little longer 

 than the chest, tapering from near the base to the tip, which is fer- 

 ruginous : legs yellow, clothed with short black hairs, beset with a 

 few black bristles ; claws black ; fore feet tawny : wings colourless ; 

 wing-ribs pale tawny ; veins tawny, paler at the base ; lower cross- 

 vein with two curves, the lower outward, the upper inward, parted 

 by more than its length from the middle cross-vein, and by more 

 than twice its length from the tip of the wing ; poisers yellow. 

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

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



G. Barnston, Esq. 



Group III. Scatina, Desv. Essai Myod. 629. 



Scatophaga squalida, Meig. Dipt. v. 252, 10. Macq. Hist. Nat. 

 Dipt. ii. 394, 9. Cordylura fuscinervis, Zett. Ins. Lapp. 733, 

 8. Scatomvza squalida, Zett. Ins. Lapp. 721, 6. Dipt. 

 Scand. v. 1972, 10. 



a. England. 



b. France. 



c. Karasawandra, Lapland. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



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



e. Kollare. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



/. Haparanda. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



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



G. Barnston, Esq. 

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



Scatophaga litorea, Meig. Dipt. v. 254, 15. Scatomyza litorea, 

 Fall. Scatom. 4, 4. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 722, 8. Dipt. Scand. v. 

 1975, 12. 



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



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