1056 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



tawny at the base ; longitudinal veins straight, with the exception 

 of the fourth, which curves upward and at the tip approaches the 

 third vein ; middle cross-vein short, straight, nearly upright ; lower 

 cross-vein a little oblique, slightly curved outward, parted by more 

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

 times its length from the tip, and by more than half its length from 

 the hind border ; poisers and scales pale yellow, the latter small. 

 Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 5 lines. Distinguished 

 from other species by the insertion of the feeler-bristle. 

 a. West Africa. Presented by W. Raddon, Esq. 



Micropeza, Meigen. 



Micropeza lateralis, Meig. Dipt. v. 383, I, pi. 53,/. 5. Macq. 



Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 492, 2. 

 a. England. 



Micropeza corrigiolata, Meig. Dipt. v. 384, 2, pi. 53,/. 6. Macq. 

 Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 492, 1. Musca corrigiolata, Linn. Syst. 

 Nat. ii. 995. Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 447, 59. Ent. Syst. iv. 339. 

 Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2852, 100. Schrank. Ins. Austr. 

 949. Schell. Gen. Mouch. pi. 6,/ 1. M. filiformis, Fabr. 

 Ent. Syst. iv. 337, 105. M. pedo, Harr. Ex. 115, pi. 34, / 

 16. Calobata corrigiolata, Fabr. Syst. And. 263, 15. C. fili- 

 formis, Fabr. Syst. Anil. 263, 14. Fall. Opomyz. 3, 4. Latr. 

 Gen. Crust, iv. 352. Rhagio corrigiolata Schrank, Faun. 

 Boic. iii. 2400. Phantasma filiformis, Desv. Essai Myod. 

 740, 1. 



a. England. 



b. France. 



Micropeza producta, n. s., mas. Ferruginea, capite subtus Jlavo, 

 thorace subcompresso, abdomine apice piceo, palpis flavis, anten- 

 nis nigris, pedibus fulvis, femoribus tibiisque apice tarsisque 

 piceis, alis limpidis. 



Body bright ferruginous, very slender : head and chest beset 

 with a few black bristles : head lengthened in front, yellow beneath ; 

 sides of the face without bristles : eyes pitchy : sucker and palpi 

 yellow : feelers black ; third joint nearly round, much longer than 

 the second ; bristle black, slender, bare, more than twice the length 

 of the third joint : chest slightly compressed : abdomen linear, cy- 

 lindrical, a little narrower than the chest and nearly twice its 

 length, pitchy above towards the tip, tawny beneath and at the tip : 

 legs tawny, long, slender; feet and tips of the thighs and of the 



