1122 LIST OF DIPTEEA. 



the facets very small : sucker and palpi ferruginous, the latter beset 

 with black bristles : feelers ferruginous, nearly as long as the face ; 

 first and second joints beset with a few black bristles ; third ellipti- 

 cal, deeper than the second, and more than twice its length ; bristle 

 black, clothed to the tip with very short hairs, more than thrice the 

 length of the third joint: chest broad: abdomen tawny, obconical, 

 thinly clothed with short black hairs and bristles, narrower but not 

 longer than the chest, adorned with three rows of black spots, these 

 are most distinct towards the tip, where the spots on the middle row 

 are oblong : legs ferruginous, clothed with a few black hairs and 

 bristles ; claws black : wings slightly gray, with a tawny tinge along 

 the fore border ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins pitchy ; longitudinal veins 

 straight ; lower cross-vein oblique, hardly curved inward, parted by 

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

 thrice its length from the end of the fourth longitudinal vein, and by 

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

 vein ; poisers pale ferruginous. Length of the body \\ line ; of the 

 wings 3 lines. 

 a. Sandwich Islands. Presented by Capt. Beechey. 



Chlorops, (n. g.?) raaculata, n. s., fern. Flava, capite fasciis maculis- 

 que duabus thorace pectoreque vittis quatuor nigris, thoracis disco 

 fulvo, abdomine nigro quadrivittato , palpis antennisque fulvis, 

 pedibus jlavis, aiis limpidis fusco confertim maculatis, vena longi- 

 tudinali 4° arcuata. 



Body yellow : head and chest beset with a few black bristles : 

 black band on the crown, and a black spot at the base of each feeler ; 

 epistoma prominent, with a slender black band at the base : eyes 

 red ; facets of the fore part much larger than those elsewhere : 

 sucker, palpi, and feelers tawny : feelers shorter than the face ; third 

 joint conical, not deeper than the second, but more than twice its 

 length ; bristle black, slender, yellow at the base, about twice the 

 length of the third joint: chest adorned with four black stripes, the 

 middle pair approaching each other towards the scutcheon, which is 

 adorned with a single stripe ; disk of the chest tawny : two black 

 stripes on each side of the breast, whose disk also is partly black : 

 abdomen obconical, a little broader but not longer than the chest, 

 adorned with four imperfect black stripes : legs pale yellow ; claws 

 black : wings colourless, adorned with more than twenty brown 

 spots ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; lon- 

 gitudinal veins straight, with the exception of the fourth, which is 

 curved upward to the middle cross-vein, then curved downwards to 

 the lower cross-vein, whence forming a very obtuse angle it proceeds 

 n a more direct line to the tip ; basal cross-veins more in the disk 



