480 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



into two parts, which are distinctly marked : first and second joints 

 of the feelers tawny, short, of equal length, clothed with short black 

 hairs ; third joint spine-shaped, black, about thrice the length of the 

 first and of the second joints ; fourth joint, black, short, bristle-like: 

 chest gray, its sides beset with a few black hairs and bristles : breast 

 pale tawny, thinly clothed with pale yellow hairs : scutcheon of a 

 colour between that of the chest and that of the breast : abdomen 

 tawny, convex, nearly cylindrical, clothed with very short yellow 

 hairs, narrower than the chest and full twice its length, slightly 

 compressed before half its length, spindle-shaped thence to the tip ; 

 first segment piceous, very short; second segment rather short, broad 

 and convex, and furnished on each side with a cluster of yellow 

 hairs ; third segment long ; the following segments successively de- 

 creasing in length; sixth and seventh segments mostly piceous: legs 

 tawny, thinly clothed with short yellow hairs ; thighs armed with two 

 or three spines ; these are more numerous on the shanks, but abound 

 most on the feet; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny ; fore legs un- 

 armed : wings slightly gray ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous, the 

 latter piceous towards the tips ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 

 7£ lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. North Bengal. From Miss Campbell's collection. 



Atomosia, Macquart. 



Atomosia incisuralis, Macq. Dipt. Exot. i. 2, 76, 4, pi 7, /. 1. 

 a. Ohio. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Dam a lis, Fabricius. 



Damalis myops, Fabr. Syst. Anil. 148, 4. Wied. Auss. Zweif. i. 



417, 3. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 316, 1. D. tibialis, Macq. 



Dipt. Exot. i. 2, 154, pi. 12, /. 6. 

 a. ? 



Damalis planiceps, Fabr. Syst. Antl. 148, 2. Wied. Auss. Zweif. 



i. 41 6, 4. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 316, 2. 

 a. ? 



Damalis Andron, n. s., mas. et fem. Fuscus, thoracis lateribus 

 humeris scutelloque fulvis, abdomine ceneo, antennis nigris, pedi- 

 bus fulvis, tibiis apice piceis, alis subfulvis. 



Male. — Body brown, covered with brown down: head much 

 broader than the chest, with a few black hairs along the borders of 

 the eyes ; clypeus armed with four long black bristles : lip black, 

 piceous at the tip, where it is clothed with dark tawny hairs ; palpi 



