1078 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Sepedon javanensis, Desv. Essai Myod. 677, 2. Macq. Dipt. Exot. 



ii. 3, 177, 2, pi. 24, /. 2. 

 a. Java. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



Sepedon ferruginosus, Wied. Auss. Ziveif. ii. 577. 1. 



Sepedon macropus, n. s., mas. Ferrugineus, capite nigro bimaeulato 7 

 thorace subvittato, pectore albo micante, abdomine piceo, palpis 

 jiavis apice piceis, antennis piceis basi fulvis apice nigris, pedibus 

 fulvis, femoribus tibiisque apice piceis, tarsis anticis nigris posteri- 

 oribus ferrugineis apice piceis, pedibus posticis longis piceo variis, 

 alisfuscis. 



Body ferruginous : head with a black spot on each side be- 

 tween the eyes and the feelers ; sides of the face without bristles ; 

 epistoma not prominent ; peristoma slightly lengthened : eyes pitchy, 

 convex ; all the facets of moderate size : sucker pitchy, clothed with 

 pale yellow hairs ; palpi yellow, with pitchy tips, beset with a few 

 black bristles : feelers longer than the head ; first joint short, tawny ; 

 second pitchy, more than fire times the leugth of the first, thickly 

 clothed with short black hairs, slightly increasing in depth towards 

 the tip ; third black, deeper than the second, and full half its 

 length, straight beneath, concave above from half the length to the 

 tip, which is obliquely truncated ; bristle downy, pitchy, and stout 

 for half the length from the base, slender and white from thence to 

 the tip, rather shorter than the second joint: chest indistinctly 

 striped ; breast adorned with white lustre : abdomen elliptical, 

 pitchy, a little longer and broader than the chest : legs tawny ; tips 

 of the thighs and of the shanks pitchy; fore feet black ; four hinder 

 feet ferruginous with pitchy tips : hind legs very long, their thighs 

 beset beneath with short black spines and adorned with a pitchy 

 band near the tips, their shanks slightly curved, pitchy, with the ex- 

 ception of a tawny band near the tips ; foot-cushions yellow ; claws 

 black : wings brown, darkest along the fore borders ; wing-ribs 

 tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; lower cross-vein slightly 

 curved outward, parted by more than thrice its length from the mid- 

 dle cross-vein and from the tip of the wing, and by one-third of its 

 length from the hind border ; poisers yellow, with pitchy knobs. 

 Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



a, Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



