LIST OF DIPTEEA. 1061 



Platystoma seminationis. Latr. Gen. Crust, iv. 354. Cons. Gen. 

 444. Meig. Dipt. v. 392, 2. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 444, 3. 

 Musca seminationis, Linn. Faun. Suet: 1874. Fabr. Sp. Ins. 

 ii. 452, 90. Ent. Syst. iv. 355, 174. Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. i. 

 5, 2857, 246. M. ncevosus, Harr. Ex. 75, pi. 21 , /. 10. Dictya 

 seminationis, Fabr. Syst. And. 329, 16. Trupanea seminationis, 

 Schrank, Faun. Boic. iii. 2516. Hesyquillia seminationis, Desv. 

 Ess. Myod. 709, 2. 



a. England. 



b. Aix-la-Chapelle. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



c. France. 



Platystoma stictica, Wied. Auss.Zweif. ii. 569, 3. Dictya stictica, 

 Fabr. Syst. Anil. 327, 9. 



a. Brazil. From Mrs. Noel's collection. 



b. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Platystoma maculipennis, Guerin, Voy. de la Coquille, 2, 2. Macq. 



Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 444, 3. 

 a. Australia. From the Rev. J. Wenham's collection. 



Platystoma australis, n. s. Rufo-fusca, capite flavo viitis duabus 

 fuscis ornato, thorace vittis quatuor canis duabusque nigris ornato, 

 abdomine nigro fusco, palpis nigris, antennis ferrugineis, pedibus 

 piceis, tibiis fulvis, tar sis nigris basi albis, alis limpidis fusco 

 maculatis fasciatis et vittatis. 



Head pale yellow, adorned with broad deep brown stripes 

 between the eyelets and the base of the feelers, and having a short 

 brown stripe on each side towards the epistoma : eyes dark red ; 

 fore part rather flat, its facets a little larger than those elsewhere: 

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

 bristles : feelers ferruginous, about half the length of the face, their 

 grooves pitchy ; third joint nearly linear, conical at the tip, about 

 four times the length of the second ; bristle black, bare, tawny to- 

 wards the base, near thrice the length of the third joint : chest pale 

 reddish brown, adorned with two regular black stripes, and with four 

 irregular hoary stripes : abdomen obconical, dark brown or black, 

 dull, clothed with white hairs, not longer than the chest , hind bor- 

 ders of the segments hoary : legs pitchy; shanks dark tawny with 

 pitchy tips ; feet black, white at the base : wings colourless, adorned 

 with many small brown spots, which are chiefly along the fore bor- 

 der and the hind border ; a blackish -brown band extends across the 

 middle of the wing and becomes narrower and paler as it approaches 

 the hind border ; near the tip there is another brown band of equal 

 breadth, and a little beyond the latter a brown irregular stripe runs 

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