470 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



beset behind the eyes with tawny bristles ; tubercle of the eyelets 

 furnished with tawny bristles; clypeus thickly armed with yellow 

 hairs and bristles : eyes bronze ; fore part flat, its facets much 

 larger than those of the other part: lip black, clothed at the 

 tip with short tawny hairs ; palpi black, clothed with tawny hairs 

 and bristles: feelers red ; first and second joints clothed with short 

 tawny hairs ; second joint a little shorter than the first ; third joint 

 black, slender, spindle-shaped, about twice the length of the first ; 

 bristle black towards the tip, much longer than all the preceding 

 joints : chest clothed with short black hairs, beset on each side and 

 behind with black bristles, adorned with four brown stripes ; middle 

 pair of stripes interrupted, and afterwards united on the hinder part; 

 side stripes also interrupted : breast and under-side of the abdomen 

 pale yellow, with a hoary tinge : abdomen much narrower than the 

 chest, and much less than twice its length, tapering from the base 

 to the tip, clothed with tawny hairs ; first and second segments very 

 short ; third and following segments long, successively decreasing 

 in length ; sexual parts ferruginous, shining : legs black, thickly 

 clothed with short yellow hairs, armed with some black spines; 

 shanks bright tawny, with black tips ; foot- cushions tawny : wings 

 gray, with a slight tawny tinge; wing-ribs, veins, and poisers 

 tawny. Length of the body 9 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



Ommatius chinensis. Asilus chinensis ? Fair. Ent. Syst. iv. 383, 

 34. Wied. Dipt. Exot. i. 185, 6. Auss. Zweif. i. 434, 14. 

 Dasypogon chinensis ? Fabr. Syst. And. 169, 25. 



a. Hong Kong. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



Ommatius Androcles, n. s., fern. Fulvus, abdomine nigro, fasciis 

 lateribus apiceque fulvis, antennis ferrugineis, pedibus nigris, 

 tibiis fulvis, alls fulvis, apicibus marginibusque posticis ci- 

 nereis. 



Body rather dark tawny: head full as broad as the chest, 

 covered with pale golden down, and clothed with hairs of the same 

 colour, beset behind the upper borders of the eyes with a row of 

 tawny bristles ; front dark tawny ; clypeus prominent, very thickly 

 beset with golden hairs and bristles : eyes large, dark bronze, its fa- 

 cets larger than those of the other part: lip and palpi black, the lat- 

 ter beset with black bristles ; first and second joints of the feelers 

 ferruginous, clothed with short tawny hairs; second joint shorter 

 than the first, armed with two or three black bristles ; chest thinly 

 clothed with short black hairs, and beset with black bristles on each 

 side and behind, when it is also slightly covered with some tawny 



