1030 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



base ; its tube is ferruginous, shining, and composed of three seg- 

 ments ; the first is obconical, pale ferruginous, with a black tip, 

 clothed with short black hairs, slightly furrowed on each side ; the 

 second is dark ferruginous, linear, black towards the tip, shagreened 

 beneath, very much shorter and narrower than the first ; the third 

 shorter and narrower than the second, and tapers to the tip, which 

 is black : legs tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs ; two black 

 spots on each of the four hinder thighs ; one black spot on each fore 

 thigh ; fore thighs armed with stout tawny and black bristles ; hind 

 shanks beset with tawny bristles ; claws black : wings tawny, paler 

 towards the hind borders, adorned with numerous colourless circles ; 

 those on the disk are few, but well defined, and have brown rings ; 

 those towards the hind border are more numerous, but indistinct ; 

 the disk has also two or three tawny circles brighter in colour than 

 the rest of the wing, and is adorned with paler rings, and near the 

 tip of each there is a black circle with a pale tawny rim ; the fore 

 border and the tip are colourless, the former between the base and 

 the point, where it is armed with two black bristles, has four or five 

 brown bands ; beyond these there is a small pale tawny space inter- 

 rupted by three brown bands, which are near together ; beyond the 

 latter the border of the wing is adorned with tawny rays, that pro- 

 ceed from the tawny disk, and have brown borders, those along the 

 fore border are mostly triangular, at the tip they are narrower and 

 linear, on the hind border their form is again changed, and they 

 inclose colourless spots, these at first are elliptical, but become round 

 and more distinct near the base ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; lower 

 cross-vein brown, a little oblique, curved outward in the middle 

 part of the wing, separated by less than its length from the middle 

 cross-vein, which is nearly perpendicular, and very slightly curved 

 outward ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of the 

 wings 7 lines. 



Trypeta Stella, n. s., mas. Fulva, capile Jlavo, abdomine nigro 

 basifulvo, palpisflavis apice piceis, antennis pedibusque fulvis, 

 alis fuscis quatuordecim maculatis basi et ad costam fulvis. 

 Body clothed with pale yellow hairs and bristles : head pale 

 yellow, with a row of long black bristles on each side of the crown, 

 and a fringe of short pale yellow bristles across the hind part; sides 

 of the face without bristles ; epistoma not prominent ; peristoma 

 large : eyes black ; fore part slightly convex ; all the facets small : 

 sucker and palpi pale yellow ; tips of the palpi pitchy : feelers pale 

 tawny, much shorter than the face ; third joint conical, a little lon- 

 ger than the second ; bristle black, slender, bare, about thrice the 



