330 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Dasypogon Anemetus, n. s. mas. Aureus, thoracis vittis quinque 

 nigris, abdomine ferrugineo maculis lateralibus nigris albidisque, 

 antennis ferrugineis, pedibus fulvis, alis limpidis apicibus mar- 

 ginibusque posticis cinereis. 



Head tawny, as broad as the chest, covered above with bright 

 golden down, clothed along the borders of the eyes with a row of 

 tawny bristles above and with a fringe of tawny hairs beneath ; tu- 

 bercle of the eyelets beset with two long black bristles ; clypeus 

 armed with many long pale yellow bristles : eyes dark purple ; fore 

 part flat, bronze-black, and distinct also from the convex part by its 

 larger facets, and by a slight angle which marks its border : lip pi- 

 ceous, clothed at the tip with short tawny hairs ; palpi ferruginous, 

 clothed with tawny hairs ; hypostoma pale tawny, clothed with yel- 

 low hairs : feelers ferruginous ; first and second joints covered with 

 short black hairs ; second joint beset with a single stout black bris- 

 tle ; third joint spindle-shaped, a little longer than the first and the 

 second joints, clothed above with short black hairs till near the tip, 

 which is paler ; following segments almost obsolete : ridge of the 

 neck beset with a row of long tawny hairs : chest covered with 

 golden down, thinly clothed with short black hairs, beset on each 

 side and behind with long black bristles, adorned with three deep 

 black stripes ; middle stripe inlaid with a narrow tawny stripe ; side 

 stripes very short and interrupted by two oblique tawny bands ; 

 shoulders ferruginous ; breast tawny, almost hairless : abdomen 

 ferruginous, tapering from the base to the tip, narrower than the 

 chest and more than twice its length, clothed with very short black 

 hairs, beset on each side at the base with a few long pale yellow 

 hairs, and with two long tawny spines, adorned along each side with 

 a whitish yellow stripe, which is widened towards the hind border of 

 each segment ; a large black spot occupies the side of each segment 

 from the fore border to the middle ; first segment extremely short, 

 crossed by rows of little punctures ; second segment short, its hind 

 border yellow ; third segment long, with a cross row of punctures 

 near the base, which is piceous ; following segments successively 

 decreasing in length to the tip, which is piceous and rather thickly 

 clothed with tawny and black hairs : legs tawny, clothed with short 

 tawny hairs ; shanks and feet beset with black spines of various 

 length ; tips of feet, of hind thighs and of hind shanks piceous ; 

 claws black ; foot-cushions yellow ; tips of fore shanks armed with 

 a black curved tooth, corresponding with little black tubercles at 

 the base of the fore feet : wings colourless, gray towards the tips 

 and along the hind borders ; disk of the areolets in the middle of 

 the wings also gray; wing-ribs ferruginous; veins black, piceous 



