318 LIST OF DIPTERA. 





stripe is perhaps effaced in the specimen described ; sides grayish 

 tawny, clothed with long yellow hairs, and beset with some ferrugi- 

 nous bristles : breast hoary, clothed with long pale yellow hairs : 

 abdomen much narrower than the chest, and rather more than twice 

 its length, nearly cylindrical, slightly decreasing in breadth from 

 the base till very near the tip, where it again widens, clothed with 

 short bright tawny hairs, and with longer and paler hairs on each 

 side towards the base ; first segment very short ; second segment 

 short, with a cross ridge ; third, fourth, and fifth segments long ; 

 sixth segment short; seventh and following segments still shorter ; 

 tip dark ferruginous : legs red, clothed with yellow hairs and beset 

 with slightly curved spines; hips, thighs towards the base, hind 

 thighs wholly, tips of shanks and feet black ; spines red on the 

 thighs, but black on the shanks and on the feet, where they 

 are more numerous ; fore and middle shanks furnished with some 

 longer tawny spines ; tips of fore shanks not armed : wings colour- 

 less ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, piceous towards the base ; 

 poisers pale tawny. Length of the body 8 — 10 lines ; of the wings 

 12—14 lines. 



Var. /3. Tips of fore thighs red. 



a. West Australia. From Mr. Clifton's collection. 



b. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Dasypogon Lanatus, n. s., fern. Niger, thorace fulvo trivittato, 

 pectore cinereo, abdominis apice compresso et subrufo, lateribus 

 fulvo vittatis, ventre cinereo- fulvo, antennis nigris, pedibus ru- 

 fis, tarsis femoribus basi tibiisque apice nigris, alls subcinereis 

 basi subfulvis. 



Body black: head a little narrower than the chest, clothed 

 above and behind with black hairs, and beneath with yellow hairs ; 

 clypeus and front adorned with golden down, and with a tuft 

 of golden hairs : eyes dark bronze ; fore part slightly convex, its 

 facets hardly larger than elsewhere on th.e eye : lip black, shining, 

 clothed at the tip with short tawny hairs ; tongue ferruginous ; palpi 

 black, and clothed with black bristles : first and second joints of the 

 feelers black, and clothed with black hairs ; second joint slightly 

 club-shaped, more than half the length of the first : chest clothed 

 with black hairs, and covered on each side with pale tawny down 

 which forms three stripes on the back ; sides thinly clothed with 

 yellow hairs, and beset with tawny bristles: breast gray, clothed 

 with long pale yellow hairs : abdomen slender, nearly linear, much 

 narrower than the chest, and less than twice its length, clothed with 

 short yellow hairs, compressed towards the tip, which is partly red, 

 and crossed by numerous little furrows ; there is a broad pale tawny 



