LIST OF DIPTERA. 371 



iv. 379, 15. Schrank. Ins. Austr. 993. Laphria violacea, 

 Meig. Klass. Zweif. i. 262, 5. 



a. Switzerland. Presented bv Dr. Dowler. 



b. ? 



Exotic Species. 



Group I. 



Laphria labiata, Fair. Syst. Anil. 160, 20. Wied. Dipt. Exot. i. 

 232, 1. Auss. Ziveif. i. 499, 1. Dasypogon rufimanus, Perty, 

 Del. Anim. Art. 181, pi. 36, /. 6. Megapoda cyanea, Macq. 

 Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 288, 1. M. labiata, Macq. Dipt. Exot. i. 

 2, 59, pi. 5, /. 3. 



a. Brazil. 



b. Brazil. From Mr. Walker's collection. 



Group II. 



Laphria Shalumus, n. s., mas. Ferruginea, capite pectoreque piceis, 

 thoracis vittis tribus nigris , abdominis fasciis nigris lateribusque 

 piceis, antennis nigris apice ferrugineis, pedibus ferrugineis, 

 femoribus nigro vittatis, alis fulvis. 



Head piceous, narrower than the chest, covered above with 

 golden down, beset behind the eyes with black and tawny bristles, 

 thickly clothed beneath with pale yellow hairs ; crown beset on 

 each side with black hairs ; clypeus armed with a few long black 

 hairs and with eight very long black bristles : eyes bronze ; fore 

 part flat, distinguished also from the convex part by its much larger 

 facets : lip and tongue black, clothed with ferruginous down ; hy- 

 postoma piceous ; first and second joints of the feelers black, clothed 

 with long black hairs ; second joint slightly club-shaped, ferruginous 

 at the tip, a little shorter than the first ; third joint spindle-shaped, 

 ferruginous, longer than the first and second joints, armed at the 

 tip with a very short spine — the rudiment of the fourth joint: 

 neck adorned with a ruff of ferruginous hairs, and on each side 

 with a thick tuft of pale shining golden hairs : chest ferruginous, 

 clothed with very short black hairs, beset on each side and behind 

 with long black bristles, adorned with three black stripes ; middle 

 stripe decreasing in breadth along its whole length from the front, 

 whence to the middle it is slightly inlaid with a slender ferruginous 

 stripe ; side stripes short aud interrupted by two oblique bands : 

 breast piceous, ferruginous beneath the base of the wings : abdomen 



