LIST OF DIPTERA. 259 



is clothed with thick black hairs: legs black, clothed with short 

 black hairs, and beset with longer black spines ; thighs tawny 

 beneath and towards the base above where they have tawny hairs : 

 wings slightly brownish gray ; the base and the fore border are dark 

 brown, which colour ceases before the tip of the wing ; its hinder 

 outline is irregular, and dissolves into the gray of the wing ; veins 

 piceous ; poisers brown, with yellow knobs. Length of the body 6 

 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. Nova Scotia. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



b. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Kedman's collection. 



Anthrax fulviana, Say, Long's Exped. to St. Peters River* Apv. 

 372, 3. Wied. Auss. Zweif. i. 290, 47. 



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



b. Nova Scotia. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



Anthrax alternata, Say, Journ. Acad. Philad. 1822, 45, 5. Wied. 

 Auss. Zweif. i. 303, 66. 



a. New York. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



b. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Anthrax resurgens, n. s. Nigra, abdomine macidis quatuor ferru- 

 gineis, subtus fulvo, pedibus fulvis,genubus tarsisque piceis, alls 

 limpidis, ad costam flavo-fuscis. 



Body black : head wanting : sides and fore border of chest 



i clothed with pale tawny hairs which are more thick on the hoary 



breast : abdomen clothed with yellow hairs, tawny beneath, and 



having two large ferruginous spots on each side of the second and 



third segments ; legs tawny, clothed with yellow hairs and black 



bristles ; knees and feet piceous : wings colourless, yellowish brown 



! at the base and along the fore borders till near the tips ; wing-ribs 



| and veins piceous, tbe latter black towards their tips ; poisers tawny, 



with yellow tips. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 



| 14 lines. 



| a. Swan River. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



' Anthrax hottentotta, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. 260, 10. Syst. Anil. 

 125, 31. Fall. Dipt. Suec. Anthr. 9, 6. Meig. Klass. Zweif. 

 i. 199, 1. Latr. Gen. Cr. iv. 310, Cons. Gen. 443. Lam. 

 Anim. sans Vert. iii. 410, 3. Curt. Brit. Ent. 2nd edit. ix. 2. 

 Musca hottentotta, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 281. Faun. Suec. 1287. 

 Grnel. Ed. Syst. Nat. v. 2831, 13. Schaf. Icon. pi. 12, /. 

 10— 12, pi. 76, f. 17. Bibio hottentotta, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 

 415, 16. Schrank. Faun. Boic. iii. 2369. Bombylius Hotten- 

 tottus, Turt. iii. 686. Nemotelus hottentottus, Deq. Ins. vi. 77, 



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