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down : legs black, clothed with short black hairs ; hips and thighs 

 adorned with silvery down ; thighs beset with black bristles : wings 

 gray, brown for one-third of the length from the base, and especially 

 along the fore borders; wing-ribs piceous ; veins black; poisers 

 tawny. Length of the body 2 J lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



a. St. John's Bluff, Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



D. One marginal and two submarginal areolets, and an indication of 

 the third, but part of the cross-vein is wanting. Veins at the tip 

 of the wing very much contorted. 



Toxophora aegeriiformis. Lepidophora aegeriiformis, Westwood, 

 Lond. and Edin. Phil. Mag. vi. 447, 1. Ploas aegeriiformis, 

 G. R. Gray, Griff. Anim. Kingd. xv. Ins. 2, 179, pi. 128, 



a. Georgia. From Mr. Abbot's collection. 



Fam. VII. Asilici. 



Dioctria, Fabricius. 



Dioctria (Elandica, Fabr. Syst. Antl. 149, 1. Latr. Gen. Crust, iv. 

 300. Cons. Gen. 443. Lam. Anim. sans Verteb. iii. 405, 1. 

 Fall. Dipt. SiXec. Asil. 6. Meig. Klass. Zweif. ii. 256. 

 Dipt. ii. 241. Macq. Dipt. Nord. Asil. 14, 1. Hist. Nat. 

 Dipt. i. 289. I, pi. 7, /. 5. Zeller, Ms, 1840, 35, 1. Loew, 

 Prog. 1840, 14, 1. Ids, 1840, 534, 1. Linn. Ent. ii. 410, 1. 

 Zett. Dipt. Scand. i. 182, 1. Asilus QElandicus, Linn. Faun. 

 Suec. 1916. Syst. Nat. xii. 1008, 15. Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. 

 v. 2900, 15. Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 465, 31. Ent. Syst. iv. 388, 

 53. Geoff. Ins. ii. 470, 8. Herbst, Gem. Nat. viii. 119, t. 346, 

 /. 5. Schrank. Faun. Boic. iii. 2551. Ins, Austr. 995. 



a. England. 



b. France. 



Dioctria atricapilla, Meig. Klass. Zweif. i. 256, 4. Dipt. ii. 253, 

 25. Fall. Dipt. Suec. Asil. 7, 4. Germ, et Ahr. Faun. ii. 23. 

 Macq. Dipt. Nord. Asil. 21, 15, Loew, Linn. Ent. ii. 413, 3. 

 D. atrata, Meig. Dipt. ii. 254, 26. D. nigripes, Meig. Klass. 

 i. 257, 5. Dipt. ii. 246, 10. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 291, 7. 

 T>. Fallenii, Meig. Dipt. ii. 246, 11. D. fuscipennis, Fall. Dipt. 

 Suec. Asil. 7, 5. Zeller, Isis, 1840, 35, 2. Loew, Prog. 1840, 

 14. 3. Isis, 1840, 534, 3. Zett Dipt. Scand. i. 184, 4. Var. 



