1062 LIST OF DIPTEEA. 





along the fore border to the tip of the wing ; wing-ribs and veins 

 black ; lower cross-vein nearly straight : scales dingy white ; poisers 

 tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 

 a. New Holland. From Mr. Lambert's collection. 



NoTACANTHINA, MdCq. 



Notacanthina magnifica, n. s., mas. et fem. Fulva, capite fer- 

 rugineo, abdomine cyaneo-purpureo, palpis fulvis apice nigris, 

 antennis nigris basi ferrugineis, pedibus nigris, tarsis fulvis, alis 

 subnigris maculis limpidis variis confertim ornatis. 



Head ferruginous, very prominent in front ; sides of the face 

 without bristles ; epistoma prominent, eyes pale red, with a brassy 

 tinge ; fore part slightly convex, its facets a little larger than those 

 elsewhere : sucker ferruginous, large, clothed with tawny hairs ; 

 palpi tawny with black tips, beset with black spines : feelers black, 

 shorter than the face; first and second joints ferruginous; third 

 conical, not longer than the second : bristle feathered to the tip with 

 short hairs, much more than four times the length of the third joint: 

 chest and breast tawny, the former clothed with short tawny hairs : 

 scutcheon armed with spines, which terminate in bristles : abdomen 

 dark purple mingled with blue, sometimes almost black, shorter but 

 hardly broader than the chest, its length hardly exceeding its breadth, 

 clothed with short black hairs, and towards the base with short 

 tawny hairs : legs black ; feet tawny, black towards the tips ; claws 

 black : wings blackish, somewhat paler along the hind borders, 

 adorned with numerous colourless dots, various in shape and size, 

 and having a tendency to form bands towards the tips of the wings ; 

 wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black ; scales short, tawny ; poisers 

 black. Length of the body 5 — 7 lines ; of the wings 12 — 16 lines. 

 a. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Eichardson. 



Group Dichromyia, Desv. Ess. Myod. 707. 

 Phasiamya, n. g. 



Body broad, thick : head very large and with a cross-ridge be- 

 tween the face and the epistoma; peristoma large: feelers much 

 shorter than the face ; bristle feathered on both sides with long 

 hairs: scutcheon large, prominent, semicircular: wings convex along 

 the fore border, especially near the base ; the three basal cross-veius 

 at two-fifths of the length of the wing from the base, the lower one 



