

368 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



the hairs are still longer and more numerous : eyes dark red ; fore 

 part flat, composed of much larger facets, and distinct from the 

 other part : lip black, shining, its tip clothed with short tawny hairs : 

 feelers black, full twice the length of the head ; first and second 

 joints linear and of equal length; first joint clothed with yellow 

 hairs ; second joint beset with a few short yellow bristles ; third 

 joint linear, covered with a brown bloom, very slightly compressed ; 

 fourth joint short, slightly club-shaped, about one-eighth of the 

 length of the third ; fifth joint club-shaped, much broader and 

 longer than the fourth : neck with a cross ridge : chest and 

 breast, especially the latter, clothed with pale yellow hairs ; shoul- 

 ders dark red : abdomen nearly spindle-shaped, slightly convex, 

 much narrower than the chest and less than twice its length, thinly 

 clothed with very short yellow hairs ; first segment very short ; se- 

 cond segment short ; third segment long ; the following segments 

 successively decreasing in length ; under-side clothed with longer 

 pale yellow hairs : legs red, shining, clothed with short tawny hairs ; 

 hips, trochanters and thighs black, clothed with long pale yellow 

 hairs, as are also the fore feet and fore shanks, especially the latter, 

 whose hairs are very long and thick ; feet beset with yellow bristles ; 

 claws black, pale red at the base ; foot-cushions yellow : wings dark 

 brown, paler towards the base ; wing-ribs and veins piceous ; poisers 

 pale ferruginous. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 14 

 lines. 



Laphria, Fabricius. 



European Species. 



Div. I., Loew. First submarginal areolet divided by a cross-vein. 



Laphria maroccana, Fabr. Syst. Anil. 158, 7. Latr. Gen, Crust. 

 iv. 299. Wied. Zool. Mag. i. 2, 38. Meig. Dipt. ii. 290, 5. 

 Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 282, 7, pi. 7, /. 3. Loew, Linn. 

 Ent. ii. 540, 1. Asilus maroccanus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. 378, 

 10. Asilus &c, Geoff. Ins. ii. 467, 2. 



a. ? Presented by the Entomological Club. 



b. Albania. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



c. Albania. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



d. Albania. From Mr. Walker's collection. 



e. France. 



One specimen has a double cross-vein on the submarginal are- 

 olet of the left wing. 



