1070 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



third joint: abdomen obconical, not longer nor broader than the 

 chest, clothed with black hairs, black on each side towards the tip : 

 legs tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; knees, tips of shanks and 

 feet black ; foot -cushions tawny ; fore legs black, with tawny hips : 

 wings slightly gray, tawny along the fore borders ; wing-ribs and 

 veins tawny ; longitudinal veins straight, the fifth ceasing imme- 

 diately after its junction with the lower cross-vein ; middle cross- 

 vein straight, slightly oblique ; lower cross-vein oblique, hardly 

 curved outward, parted by much more than twice its length from 

 the middle cross-vein, by four times its length from the end of the 

 fourth longitudinal vein, and by half its length from the hind bor- 

 der ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 4 

 lines- 



a. New Holland. Presented by J. Hunter, Esq. 



Sciomyza (n. g. ?) obliqua, n. s. Ferruginea, crassa, capite palpis 

 pedibusque fulvis, antennis ferrugineis, alls fuscis costa basi 

 fulva. 



Body thick, ferruginous, clothed with short tawny hairs : head 

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

 eyes pitchy, small, convex ; all the facets very small : sucker tawny, 

 clothed with pale hairs ; palpi tawny, beset with black bristles : 

 feelers ferruginous, shorter than the face ; third joint forming two- 

 thirds of a circle, a little longer than the second ; bristle black, bare, 

 slender, very much larger than the third joint : abdomen obconical, 

 not longer than the chest : legs tawny, clothed with short yellow- 

 hairs ; claws black ; wings brown, tawny along the fore border for 

 half the length from the base ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous ; 

 fourth longitudinal vein forming a very obtuse angle at its junction 

 with the lower cross-vein, slender and slightly curved from thence to 

 its tip, and apparently a continuation of the lower cross-vein ; mid- 

 dle cross-vein straight, slightly oblique ; lower cross-vein long, very 

 oblique, nearly straight, parallel to the hind border of the wing, 

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

 a little less than its length from the end of the fourth longitudinal 

 vein, and by less than half its length from the end of the fifth lon- 

 gitudinal vein; poisers pale yellow. Length of the body If line; 

 of the wings 3 lines, 

 a. New Holland Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



