380 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Laphria Amaracus, n. s., mas. Fulva, thorace vittis tribus cinereis, 

 abdomine nigro, antennis nigris, femoribus ferruginels apice ni- 

 gris, tibiis flavis apice tarsisque nigris, his basi ferrugineis, alis 

 fuscis. 



Body stout, tawny : head as broad as the chest, furnished with 

 a few black hairs on the tubercle of the eyelets and on the sides of 

 the eyes, beset behind with black bristles and clothed beneath with 

 white hairs ; clypeus armed with long black bristles : eyes dark 

 green ; fore part flat, quite distinct from the other part, and com- 

 posed of much larger facets : lip black, shining, clothed at the base 

 with long white hairs and at the tip with short pale tawny hairs ; 

 palpi black, thickly beset with black bristles : feelers black ; first 

 joint beset with black bristles ; second joint clothed with black hairs, 

 slightly clavate, much shorter than the first; third joint much longer 

 than the first and the second joints, slightly increasing in breadth 

 till near the tip, then becoming more slender : chest with three very 

 broad gray stripes and with three rows of black hairs ; sides beset 

 with black bristles : abdomen tapering from the base to the tip, 

 black, shining, crossed by numerous little furrows, clothed with 

 tawny hairs, adorned with bands of tawny down along the hind bor- 

 ders of the segments, rather narrower than the chest and less than 

 twice its length ; segments from the third successively decreasing in 

 length : legs stout, clothed with short yellow hairs, beset with black 

 bristles ; jips gray ; thighs ferruginous, with black tips ; shanks 

 yellow, with black tips ; feet black ; first joint ferruginous from the 

 base to the middle; claws black ; foot-cushions brown : wings brown, 

 paler on the hind borders towards the base ; wing-ribs and veins pi- 

 ceous, the latter black towards the tips ; poisers tawny, with ferru- 

 ginous knobs. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by J. Hunter, Esq. 



Group IX. 



Laphria submetallica, Macq. Dipt. Exot. i. 2, 63, 3. 

 a. Isle of France. 



Lapheia Taphius, n.s., fern. Nigra, pilis nigris vestita, thor 

 nigro-fusco, pec tore pilis nonnullis canis, abdomine purpurea, an 

 tennis nigris, pedibus nigro-purpureis , alis nigris. 



Body black, clothed with short black hairs : head a little 

 broader than the chest, clothed with long black hairs, which are 

 most frequent beneath ; two long black bristles on the tubercle of 

 the eyelets; clypeus armed with long black bristles : eyes bronze : 



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