LIST OF DIPTERA. 1079 



Sepedon Crishna, n. s., mas. Ferruginea, capite antico fulvo, tho- 

 racis disco abdomineque nigris, palpis fulvis, antennis piceis 

 basi ferrugineis, pedibus piceis, tibiis posticis femoribusque fer- 

 rugineis, alisfuscis ad costam subfulvis. 



Body ferruginous : head and chest beset with very few black 

 bristles : head tawny in front ; sides of the face without bristles ; 

 peristoma advanced ; epistoma not prominent : eyes pitchy, convex ; 

 all the facets very small : sucker pitchy, clothed with tawny hairs ; 

 palpi tawny : feelers pitchy, longer than the head ; first joint ferru- 

 ginous, very short ; second joint clothed with black hairs, tawny at 

 the base, about four times the length of the first ; third joint coni- 

 cal, pointed at the tip, ferruginous at the base, less than half the 

 length of the second ; bristle pale yellow, stout, downy, not longer 

 than the third joint: disk of the chest black: abdomen black, 

 spindle-shaped, a little narrower but not longer than the chest : legs 

 pitchy ; hips tawny ; thighs ferruginous ; claws black ; foot-cushions 

 dull pale yellow ; hind thighs stout, tawny at the base, armed be- 

 neath with a double row of black spines, which increase in length 

 towards the tips ; hind shanks ferruginous, slightly curved, pitchy 

 at the tips : wings brown ; a tawny tinge along the fore border ; 

 wing-ribs and veins dark tawny ; longitudinal veins straight ; a 

 brown spot on part of the middle cross-vein, which is short, straight 

 and slightly oblique ; lower cross-vein upright, with two hardly per- 

 ceptible curves, the lower outward, the upper inward, parted by 

 more than twice its length from the middle cross-vein and from the 

 tip of the wing, and by more than half its length from the hind 

 border ; poisers pitchy, Length of the body 3^ lines ; of the wings 

 6^ lines. 



a. Nepaul. From the Hardwicke bequest. 



Dorvcera, Meigen. 



Dorycera graminum, Meig. Dipt. vi. 30, 1, pi. 57, /. 1 — 5. 

 Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 428, 1. Musca graminum, Fabr. 

 Ent. Syst. iv. 346, 143. Musca, &c, Geoff. Ins. ii. 504, 25. 

 Scatophaga graminum, Fabr. Syst. Anil. 205, 8. Dictya gra- 

 minum, Latr. Hist. Nat. Crust, xiv. 384. Tetanocera grami- 

 num, Latr. Gen. Crust, iv. 351. Coq. Illust. pi. 24, /. 11. 

 Oscinis thamnicola, Desv. Essai Myod. 712, 1. 



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



b. France. 



c. — ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



