LIST OF DIPTERA. 335 



the feelers and the tubercle of the eyelets ; clypeus prominent, 

 armed with long tawny spines ; front covered with close golden 

 down: eyes bronze, slightly convex in front, where the facets 

 are but very little larger than in the other part, and the division of 

 the eye into two regions can hardly be traced : lip ferruginous, 

 short, beset with long tawny hairs, and clothed at the tip with short 

 yellow hairs : feelers ferruginous ; first and second joints beset with 

 a few ferruginous hairs; second joint cup-shaped, much shorter 

 than the first ; third joint slightly tapering from the base to the tip, 

 more than twice the length of the first and second joints : chest and 

 breast black ; each side of the chest with a bright tawny stripe, 

 which is widened on the fore part and in front of the scutcheon be- 

 hind ; scutcheon and sides of the hind chest clothed with tawny 

 down, which also more slightly covers the back of the chest where it 

 is disposed in two stripes, and these, like the side stripes, are beset 

 with tawny bristles : abdomen tawny, cylindrical, narrower than the 

 chest and more than twice its length, slightly decreasing in breadth 

 for one-third of its length, and spindle-shaped thence to the tip, 

 clothed with short black hairs, and having a tuft of black bristles on 

 each side of the second segment ; first and second segments and 

 fore borders of the third segment black ; fourth segment black on the 

 fore border ; fifth segment black, excepting the hind border ; third 

 segment crossed by a furrow near the base : legs tawny, clothed with 

 short tawny hairs ; hips and trochanters black ; thighs thickly crossed 

 with little furrows ; hind thighs, middle thighs except the tips, and 

 fore thighs at the base, piceous ,- shanks and feet beset with tawny 

 spines ; claws black, tawny towards the base : foot-cushions tawny : 

 fore legs armed with a long curved tawny tooth at the tip of 

 the shank, and with a corresponding short blunt tawny tooth at the 

 base of the foot : wings bright tawny, especially at the base and on 

 the fore borders ; tips and hind borders slightly tinged with gray, 

 their disks almost colourless ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous, the 

 latter piceous towards the tips ; poisers tawny. Length of the 

 body 7 — 11 lines ; of the wings 12 — 20 lines. 



Allied to Laphria coarctata, Per ty, Del. Anim. Art. 18\,pl. 36, 

 /■ 4. 



Dasypogon Numicius, n. s., fern. Niger, thoracis lateribus fascid- 

 que ferrugineis, abdomine apice nigro, antennis pedibusque ful- 

 ms, femoribus plerumque nigris y alis fulvis. 



Body black, stout : head not broader than the chest, clothed on 

 the crown, behind and about the mouth with dark tawny hairs, and 

 beneath with black hairs : clypeus armed with nine tawny spines ; 



