1094 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Div. B. Meig. 

 Group iEcothea, Haliday. 



Helomyza fenestralis, Fall. Heterom. 5, 5. Meig. Dipt. vi. 56, 

 18. Blephariptera fenestralis, Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 

 414, 9. iEcothea fenestralis, Haliday, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1839, 

 187. 



a. England. 



Group Blephariptera, Macq. 



Helomyza inscripta, Meig. Dipt. vi. 59, 26. Blephariptera in- 



scripta, Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 414, 10. 

 a. England. 



Helomyza fasciata, n. s. Cinerea, capite albo micante, humeris 

 ferrugineis, abdomine fulvo suturis nigris, antennis nigris basi 

 ferrugineis, pedibus fulvis, tarsis nigris, alis fulvo subcinereis. 



Body clothed with black hairs and bristles : head gray, 

 adorned with white reflections on each side of the crown and on the 

 fore part, which is tawny ; sides of the face without bristles ; epi- 

 stoma not prominent: eyes red, convex; all the facets very small : 

 sucker black, clothed with tawny hairs: feelers black, nearly as 

 long as the face ; third joint slightly conical, rather deep, rounded 

 at the tip, very much longer than the second joint; first and second 

 joints dark ferruginous ; bristle bare, rather stout at the base, more 

 than twice the length of the third joint : chest and breast gray : 

 chest with a tawny tinge ; shoulders ferruginous ; breast more 

 hoary: abdomen tawny, shining, spindle-shaped, a little longer than 

 the chest, slender at the tip ; sutures of the segments black : legs 

 tawny, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; feet black, tawny at 

 the base ; foot-cushions veiy small : wings pale gray, with a very 

 slight tawny tinge; wing-ribs pale tawny; veins pitchy, pale tawny 

 towards the base ; lower cross-vein parted by much less than twice its 

 length from the middle cross-vein, having two very indistinct curves, 

 the lower outward, the upper inward ; scales very small, whitish, 

 with pale yellow borders; poisers tawny. Length of the body 2 

 lines ; of the wings 4 lines. 

 a. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



