1034 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



black ; fore part rather flat, its facets a little larger than those else- 

 where ; sides of the face without bristles ; epistorna not prominent ; 

 sucker tawny, clothed with tawny hairs ; palpi tawny, beset with 

 black bristles : feelers tawny, a little shorter than the face ; third 

 joint conical, more than twice the length of the second ; bristle 

 black, slender, full twice the length of the third joint, tawny at the 

 base : chest and abdomen black : abdomen elliptical, a little longer 

 than the chest : legs tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs ; tips of 

 the shanks armed with black spines ; hind shanks at the base and 

 four hinder thighs pitchy ; claws black : wings colourless, dark 

 brown for near half the length from the base, with the exception of 

 a short colourless stripe extending along the fore border from the 

 base, of a narrow oblique white band beneath the above-mentioned 

 stripe, of a large triangular spot on the fore border near the tip of 

 the brown part, and of the hind border at the base ; the colourless 

 half is interrupted by a dark brown narrow band, which traverses 

 the wing, and is parallel to the brown part, and after attaining the 

 border proceeds to the tip of the wing ; the outer branch of the an- 

 gle which it forms has parallel to its inner side an oblique band, 

 which does not extend above the second longitudinal vein ; wing- 

 ribs pitchy ; veins black ; lower cross-vein straight, nearly perpen- 

 dicular, separated by less than its length from the middle cross-vein, 

 which is longer than usual ; poisers tawny. Length of the body If 

 lines ; of the wings 3 lines. 



a. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Wood's collection. 



Trypeta Tritea, n. s., fem. Fusca, capite fulvo, facie thoracis ma- 

 culis duabus scutelloque albis, palpis fulvis, antennis piceis, pe- 

 dibus albis, tibiis jmlerioribus basi femoribusque fuscis ; alis 

 limpidis basi fuscis apice fusco fasciatis. 



Head and chest beset with long black bristles : head pale 

 tawny ; front of the crown yellow ; face white, with the exception 

 of two brown grooves for the reception of the feelers, the sides with- 

 out bristles ; epistorna not prominent : eyes bronze red ; fore part 

 rather ilat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker pitchy, 

 clothed with tawny hairs ; palpi tawny, thickly beset with black 

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

 conical towards the tip, more than twice the length of the second 

 joint ; bristle black, slender, feathered with rather long hairs, tawny 

 at the base, more than twice the length of the third joint : chest 

 and breast dark brown, shining; a large white spot on each side of 

 the chest; scutcheon white: abdomen elliptical, dark brown, clothed 

 with short black hairs, not longer nor broader than the chest : legs 

 white ; thighs dark brown ; four hinder shanks brown towards the 



