1160 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



scales whitish, with pale tawny borders. Length of the body 2£ 



lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



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



Stomoyxs iEnos, n. s. Nigra, capite fusco, thoracis vittis fulvis, 

 pectore cinereo, abdomine fiavo-fusco, subtus fulvo bivittato, 

 antennis piceis, pedibus nigris, alis limpidis. 



Body thinly clothed with black hairs and bristles: head dark 

 brown, adorned in front with silvery lustre; epistoma slightly pro- 

 minent; sides of the face beset with bristles at the base: eyes pitchy ; 

 fore part nearly flat, its facets rather larger than those elsewhere : 

 sucker black, smooth, shining ; palpi tawny : feelers pitchy, shorter 

 than the face ; third joint flat above, very slightly convex beneath, 

 obliquely truncated at the tip, about twice the length of the second 

 joint ; bristle black, about twice the length of the third joint, thinly 

 feathered, stout for more than half its length : chest black, adorned 

 with indistinct tawny stripes, and on each side with a tawny patch ; 

 breast gray: abdomen black, tinged with yellowish brown ; two 

 tawny stripes on the under side : legs black, clothed wilh black hairs 

 and bristles ; knees and foot-cushions tawny : wings colourless ; 

 wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, tawny at the base ; tip cross-vein 

 united by a very slight curve to the fourth longitudinal vein, slightly 

 curved inward from thence to the tip, joining the border a short 

 distance below the tip of the wing; lower cross-vein nearly straight, 

 but with a slight inward inclination in the middle part of its course ; 

 scales yellowish white, with pale yellow borders. Length of the 

 body 2 lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 

 a. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Sinclair. 



Stomyxys ? Cytorus, n. s. Cinereo-fulva, capHe cano, abdomine 

 fulvo, pedibus nigris, antennis tibiisque ferrugineis, alis subci- 

 nereis ad costam subfuscis. 



Body black, clothed with black hairs and bristles : head ferru- 

 ginous in front, adorned with a hoary covering which has a tawny 

 tinge behind; epistoma not prominent; sides of the face fringed 

 with bristles at the base : eyes pitchy, not hairy : sucker black, 

 slender, much more than half the length of the body ; palpi tawny, 

 slender, beset with black bristles : feelers ferruginous, a little shorter 

 than the face ; third joint black, ferruginous at the base, linear, slen- 

 der, rounded at the tip, full thrice the length of the second joint ; 

 bristle feathered : chest adorned with a grayish tawny covering : ab- 



