376 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Laphria Telecles, n. s., mas. et fem. Cyanea, albo pilosa, thorace 

 albo bimaculato, antennis nigris, pedibus cyaneis, alis limpidis 

 fusco variis. 



Body blue, shining, clothed with white hairs : head nearly as 

 broad as the chest, rather thickly clothed with hairs, having a tuft 

 of black bristles on each side of the crown and a thick tuft of black 

 bristles on the clypeus : eyes black ; fore part flat, distinct from the 

 other part, and with larger facets : lip black, short, its tip clothed 

 with yellow hairs: feelers black; first joint linear, thickly clothed 

 with long black hairs ; second joint cup-shaped, beset with black 

 bristles, less than half the length of the first ; third joint spindle- 

 shaped, broader and a little longer than the first and the second 

 joints : chest very thinly clothed with hairs, adorned with a bright 

 white spot on each side in front : breast white and clothed with long 

 white hairs : abdomen of the male linear, of the female spindle- 

 shaped, much narrower than the chest and nearly twice its length ; 

 the sides clothed with white hairs, especially towards the base : legs 

 blue, stout, not armed with teeth, clothed with white hairs ; feet 

 black, beset with black hairs and bristles ; claws black ; foot-cushions 

 dull ferruginous ; hind thighs thick, yellow from the base to the 

 middle ; hind shanks much curved : wings brown ; disks of the 

 areolets colourless ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers tawny. 

 Length of the body 6 — 8 lines ; of the wings 10 — 12 lines. 



a. West Australia. From Mr. Clifton's collection. 



Laphria clavipes, Fabr. Syst. Anil. 162, 27. Wied. Dipt. Exot. i. 

 237, 9. Auss. Zweif. i. 513, 23. Lampria clavipes, Macq. 

 Dipt. Exot. i. 2,61,2. 



a. Para. Presented by Reginald Graham, Esq. 



b. Para. Presented by Gordon Graham, Esq. 



c. Brazil. Presented by J. P. George Smith, Esq. 



d. Demerara. Presented by J. S. Bowerbank, Esq. 



e. Brazil. Presented by the Entomological Club. 

 /. Brazil. From Mr. Tucker's collection. 



g. Brazil. 



Laphria Macquartii, Perty, Del. Anim. Art. 181, pi. 36, /. 3. 



a. Brazil. Presented by J. P. George Smith, Esq. 



b. Brazil. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



c. Para. Presented by Gordon Graham, Esq. 



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



e. Brazil. 



