248 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



ginous ; sucker and feelers black : eyes red : chest adorned in front 

 with a band of bright red hairs, and having a tuft of the same on 

 each side : breast piceous, with a hoary bloom : a fringe of black 

 hairs on each side of the chest and of the abdomen ; the back of the 

 latter adorned with a tuft of white hairs on each side of the third 

 segment : legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles : wings 

 blackish brown, with a colourless space on the middle of the hind 

 border, of whose length it occupies about one-third, and extends up- 

 ward in a short-conical form to more than two-thirds of the breadth 

 of the wing ; there is a small colourless spot at a short distance 

 from the tip of this space towards the base of the wing, still nearer 

 to which there is a small colourless streak along one of the veins, 

 and the neighbouring part of the wing has a ferruginous tinge ; 

 wing-ribs and veins piceous, the latter black towards the tips ; 

 poisers black, with piceous tips. Length of the body 6 lines ; of 

 the wings 14 lines. 



a. Madras. Presented by Walter Elliott, Esq. 



Group VII. 



Anthrax basifascia, n. s., Div. III., Wied. Nigra, capite fulvo, 

 scutello pectoreque ferrugineis, abdomine piceo ciliis flavis fas- 

 ciato, antennis pedibusque nigris, femoribus piceis, alis subcine- 

 reis, basi costd venarumque lateribus fulvis. 



Head tawny and clothed with tawny hairs : mouth black : eyes 

 piceous : feelers black, ferruginous at the base : chest piceous, 

 clothed with tawny hairs, which form a fringe along the fore border 

 and on each side : scutcheon and breast ferruginous, the latter 

 clothed with tawny hairs : abdomen dark piceous, with a fringe of 

 pale yellow hairs on the fore border of each segment, and more com- 

 pletely clothed on the under-side : legs black ; thighs piceous : 

 wings slightly gray, tawny at the base and on the fore borders, and 

 along the margins of the veins ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous, 

 the latter piceous towards the tips ; poisers tawny. Length of the 

 body 8 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. North Bengal. From Miss Campbell's collection. 



Anthrax hetrusca, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. 257, 3. Syst. Antl. 119, 7. 



Meig. Dipt. ii. 151,15. 

 a. Frejus. From Mr. Walker's collection. 



Anthrax lutea. Exoprosopa lutea, Macq. Dipt. Exot. ii. 1,40, 



12, pi. 17,/. 11. 

 a. Spain. From Dr. Leach's collection. 



