334 LIST OF DIPTEEA. 



Group IX. 



Dasypogon Allia, n. s., fern.. Ferrugineus, capite nigro, thoracis 

 vittis tribus nigris, pectore piceo, abdomine fasciis nigris, pedi- 

 bus fulvis, femoribus plerumque piceis, alls subfulvis. 



Head black, a little narrower than the chest, covered with taw- 

 ny down, clothed behind and beneath with tawny hairs, and beset 

 behind the eyes with tawny bristles ; clypeus armed with ten or 

 twelve long yellow spines : eyes bronze ; fore part flat, its facets not 

 larger than those of the other part : lip black, partly ferruginous, 

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

 with tawny hairs; first joint linear; second joint club-shaped, 

 much shorter than the first : neck beset with a cross row of tawny 

 bristles : chest ferruginous, with three broad black stripes, thinly 

 clothed with short tawny hairs, and beset with some tawny bristles 

 on each side ; side stripes shortened in front ; scutcheon and hind 

 chest piceous, the latter with a large ferruginous spot on each side : 

 breast piceous: abdomen ferruginous, linear for one-third of the 

 length from the base, spindle-shaped thence to the tip, a little nar- 

 rower than the chest and about twice its length; first and second 

 segments short, black ; third and following segments long, but suc- 

 cessively decreasing in length to the tip, which is clothed with taw- 

 ny hairs and armed with a circlet of short ferruginous spines ; fore 

 borders of third, fourth and fifth segments black : legs tawny, thinly 

 clothed with tawny hairs, and beset with some tawny spines ; hips, 

 hind thighs except the tips, middle thighs from the base to the mid- 

 dle, and fore thighs at the base, piceous ; claws black, tawny from 

 the base to the middle ; foot-cushions tawny ; tips of fore shanks 

 armed with a long curved black tooth, corresponding with a short 

 blunt tooth near the base of the fore feet : wings tawny along the 

 fore half, and along the borders of the veins of the hind half, which 

 is nearly colourless ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous, the latter 

 piceous towards the tips ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 12 

 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



Dasypogon Carus, n. s. Fulvus. capitis vertice nigro, thorace nigro 

 fulvo quadrivittato, abdomine nigro-fasciato, antennis ferrugineis, 

 pedibus fulvis, femoribus plerumque piceis, alis fulvis discis sub- 

 limpidis, apicibus marginibusque posticis subcinereis. 



Head tawny, as broad as the chest, rather thickly clothed with 

 tawny hairs ; a black band on the crown between the base of 





