984 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



stoma very slightly prominent : eyes pale red, convex ; facets of the 

 fore part larger than those elsewhere : sucker tawny, thinly clothed 

 with yellow hairs ; palpi tawny, beset with black bristles : feelers 

 tawny, shorter than the face ; first and second joints beset with a few 

 black bristles ; third joint nearly round, much broader and a little 

 longer than the first and the second ; bristle black, slender, its 

 second joint of moderate length, the third downy, more than four 

 times the length of the third feeler-joint : chest with three indistinct 

 darker stripes ; breast paler than the chest : abdomen spindle- 

 shaped, darker than the chest, beset with short black bristles : legs 

 pale tawny, thinly clothed with short black hairs ; tips of the shanks 

 armed with black spurs ; feet darker than the shanks ; claws black : 

 wings pale tawny ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; veins pitchy to- 

 wards the tips; lower cross-vein pitchy, straight, clouded with 

 brown, full thrice its length distant from the middle cross-vein ; 

 poisers yellow. Length of the body 3 — 3i lines ; of the wings 

 7 — 8 lines. 

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



Dryomtza Appula, n. s., mas. Fulva, abdominis apice fusco,palpis 

 antennis pedibusque fulvis, alls limpidis. 



Body tawny : head and chest thinly beset with long black bris- 

 tles : head paler in front ; sides of the face without bristles ; epi- 

 stoma not prominent ; a fringe of short black bristles along the 

 eyes, which are black and convex ; all the facets very small : sucker 

 and palpi tawny ; palpi beset with short black bristles : feelers 

 tawny, darkest along the upper side ; third joint conical, much 

 more than twice the length of the second, its breadth less than half 

 its length ; second joint of the bristle rather stout, dark tawny, 

 somewhat long; third joint black, downy, slender, much more than 

 twice the length of the third feeler-joint : breast clothed with a few 

 very short black hairs: abdomen obconical, much shorter than the 

 chest, brownish towards the tip, clothed with black hairs and bristles : 

 legs tawny, clothed with short black hairs and with a few black 

 bristles ; feet darker towards the tips ; claws black : wings colour- 

 less ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; veins pitchy towards the tips ; 

 lower cross-vein very slightly curved inward, more than twice its 

 length distant from the middle cross-vein, which is stout and 

 straight ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the 

 wings 7 lines. 

 a. New Holland. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Group Oblicia, Desv. Essai Myod. 620. 



