1146 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Ornithomyia varipes, n. s. Fulva, verticis vitta antice picea, tho- 

 race bisulcato, abdomine piceo, pedibus fulvis, femoribus basi 

 viridibus, tibiarum vittis tarsisque piceis, alls limpidis. 

 Body dark tawny, smooth, shining ; front of the head and 

 mouth beset with bristles; crown with a broad dull stripe, whose 

 fore border is pitchy: eyes pitchy: two indistinct furrows on the 

 chest, one longitudinal, the other transverse, quite obsolete at the 

 point of intersection : abdomen pitchy, dull, clothed with black 

 hairs : legs tawny, beset with black bristles ; thighs at the base 

 bright green ; shanks with pitchy streaks ; feet pitchy ; claws 

 black, long : wings colourless ; wing-ribs pitchy ; fore border veins 

 black, the other veins dull tawny. Length of the body 2 lines ; 

 of the wings 5 lines. 

 a. Columbia. Presented by M. Goudot. 



Oxypterum, Leach. 



Oxypteeum pallidum, Leach, Eprob. 171, pi. 25, /. 12 — 14. 



Mouche araignee, Geoff. Ins. ii. 547, 2. Hippobosca Hirundi- 



nis, Panz. Faun. Germ. 7, 24. Schaff. Icon. pi. 53,/. 1, 2. 



Anapera pallida, Meig. Dipt. vi. 235, 1, pi. 64,/. 12 — 14. 



Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 643, 1, pi. 24,/. 12. 

 a. England. 



Strebla, Wiedemann. 



Strebla Vespertilionis, Wiecl. Auss. Ziveif. ii. 612, 1, pi. 10,/. 13. 

 Latr. Regn. Anim. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 637, 1, pi. 24, 

 /. 7. Hippobosca Vespertilionis, Fabr. Syst. Anil. 339, 6. 

 Wied. Analecta, Ent. 19, /. 7. 



a. Columbia. Presented by M. Goudot. 



b. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



Strebla Africana, n. s. Lutea, alis fulvo-albidis. 



Body and legs luteous, clothed with luteous hairs: eyes pitchy, 

 smooth, very small : wings fringed, whitish, with a tawny tinge, 

 which is most prevalent on the fore border and along the sides 

 of the veins ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; first longitudinal vein 

 slightly waving, joining the fore border at two-thirds of the length 

 of the wing ; second joining the fore border at half the distance be- 

 tween the end of the first and the tip of the wing ; third proceeding 



