LIST OF DIPTERA. 1059 



before the tip of the wing ; lower cross veins straight, oblique, parted 

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

 than thrice its length from the tip of the wing, and by half its length 

 from the hind border; poisers tawny. Length of the body 2 lines ; 

 of the wings 4 lines. 

 a. North Bengal. From Miss Campbell's collection. 



Ulidia smaragdi, n. s., fern. Viridis, capite nigro, abdomine cyaneo- 

 purpureo, antennis ferrugineis, palpis pedibusque nigris, genubus 

 tibiisque posterioribus ferrugineis, tarsis posterioribus fulvis apice 

 piceis, tarsis anticis basi albis, alis albidis. 

 Head and chest beset with a few black bristles : head black ; 

 sides of the face without bristles; epistoma not prominent: eyes 

 bright red, convex ; all the facets very small : sucker pitchy, clothed 

 with tawny hairs ; palpi black, beset with black bristles : feelers fer- 

 ruginous, shorter than the face ; third joint slightly tapering from 

 the base to the tip, more than twice the length of the second ; bristle 

 black, slender, bare, pale yellow towards the base, about twice the 

 length of the third joint : chest green, not shining: abdomen bluish- 

 purple, shining, oval, a little longer than the chest; penultimate 

 segment bright green : oviduct pitchy, short : legs black ; fore feet 

 white at the base ; four hinder knees and shanks ferruginous ; four 

 hinder feet tawny with pitchy tips : wings whitish ; wing-ribs and 

 veins tawny ; lower cross vein with two very slight curves (the lower 

 outward, the upper inward) parted by more than twice its length 

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

 tip of the wing, and by less than half its length from the hind bor- 

 der; fifth longitudinal vein much curved upward after the junction 

 of the lower cross-vein, approaching very near the fourth at the tip of 

 the wing ; scales small, white ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 

 2 lines ; of the wings 4 lines. 

 a. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Ulidia stigma, Wied. Auss. Zweif.u. 665, 1. Musca stigma, Fabr. 

 Suppl. 563, 72. Syst. Antl. 303, 96. Dacus obtusus, Fabr. 

 Syst. Antl. 278, 30. 



Diopsis, Linnceus. 

 Diopsis pallida, Westw. Linn. Trans, xvii. 296, 3, pi. 9,/. 3. 



