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with pale yellow hairs : abdomen black, clothed on each side with 

 long tawny hairs, and having a few black hairs towards the tip ; 

 along the hind borders of the segments are red bands interrupted 

 in the middle, they are less apparent beneath : legs ferruginous, 

 with but few hairs and bristles; feet piceous towards the tips: 

 wings colourless, bright tawny at the base, near which there is 

 a broad blackish brown band ; wing-ribs piceous ; veins ferrugi- 

 nous, paler where they cross the tawny colour, piceous towards the 

 tips ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 16 

 lines. 



Phthiria, Meigen. 

 A. Two submarginal areolets. 



Phthiria minuta, Latr. Gen. Crust, iv. 314. Cons. Gen. 443. 



Meig. Dipt. ii. 219, 2. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 393, 3. 



Volucella minuta, Fabr. Syst. And. 115, 6. 

 a. France. 



Phthiria pulicaria, Meig. Dipt. ii. 219, 3. Macq. Hist Nat. 

 Dipt. i. 393, 4. Zeller, Isis, 1840, 23, 3. Zett. Dipt. Scand. 

 i. 194, 1. Gim. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1847, 1, 223, 1. 

 Bombylius pulicarius, Mik. Monogr. 58, 14, pi. 4, /. 14. Vo- 

 lucella pygmaea, Fabr. Syst. Anil. 115, 5. V. campestris, Fall. 

 Dipt. Suec. Bomb. 11,1. Phthiria nigra, Meig. Klass. Zweif. 

 i. 193, 2. P. pygmaea, Latr. Gen. Crust, iv. 314. 



a. England. 



Phthiria scutellaris, Hoffmansegg, Meig. Dipt. ii. 220, 4. Macq. 



Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 393, 2. 

 a. South of France. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



B. Three submarginal areolets, but the cross-vein is partly wanting, 

 and the division is incomplete. 



Phthiria punctipennis, n. s., mas. et fern. Fusca (mas.) autfulva 

 (fern.) capite albo maculis fuscis ornato, abdomine mari fasciis 

 nonnullis albis, antennis pedibusque fulvis, tibiis apice tarsisque 

 piceis, alis subcinereis fusco maculatis. 



Male. — Body brown : head white, shining brown on the crown, 

 and with two brown spots on each side -. eyes red : lip black, longer 



