1064 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



with pale hairs ; sides of the face without bristles ; epistoma not 

 prominent : eyes red ; fore part slightly convex, its facets larger 

 than those elsewhere : sucker pitchy, clothed with pale tawny hairs ; 

 palpi tawny : feelers tawny, darker at the base, shorter than the 

 face ; third joint nearly round, longer than the second ; bristle pale 

 tawny, slender, bare, about four times the length of the third joint : 

 chest black, dull, finely punctured, clothed (especially on each side) 

 with short tawny hairs ; scutcheon small, armed with two bristles : 

 abdomen twice the length of the chest, linear and narrow for half 

 the length, broader and spindle-shaped from thence to the tip, 

 clothed on each side with pale yellow hairs : legs red, clothed with 

 very short pale yellow hairs ; hips and feet pitchy ; claws black ; 

 hind thighs thick, spindle-shaped, adorned with a pitchy band, 

 armed beneath with a double row of short black spines, furrowed 

 for the reception of the hind shanks, which are slightly curved : 

 wings rather narrow, slightly tinged with brown ; wing-ribs tawny ; 

 veins pitchy, tawny at the base ; fourth longitudinal vein forming 

 two very obtuse angles, the one upward at the junction with the 

 middle cross-vein, the other downward at the junction with the 

 lower cross-vein ; sixth longitudinal vein abruptly proceeding to the 

 hind border after its junction with the lower basal cross-vein; middle 

 cross-vein very short ; lower cross-vein straight, nearly upright, 

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

 by more than four times its length from the end of the fourth 

 longitudinal vein, and by more than half its length from the end of 

 the fifth longitudinal vein ; poisers bright tawny. Length of the 

 body 3^ lines; of the wings 6 lines. 



Piophila, Fallen. 



Piophila Casei, Fall. Heterom. 9, 1. Meig. Dipt. v. 395, 1, pi. 

 54, /. 4. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 541, 1. Musca Casei, 

 Linn. Faun. Suec. 1850, /3. M. putris, var. Linn. Syst. Nat. 

 ii. 993. Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. v. 2849, 89. Berk. Syn. 1, 

 165. Stew. El. ii. 260. Turt. iii. 610. Tyrophaga Casei, 

 Kirby and Spence, Intr. Ent. i. 226, iv. 9. Curt. Brit. Ent. 

 iii. 120. The cheese-fly, Bingley, Anim. Biog. iii. 318. 



a. England. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



b. England. 



c. France. 



d. Interior of South Africa. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



e. — ? From Mr. Children's collection 



