LIST OF DIPTERA. 493 



Journ. Roy. Agric. Soc. vi. 2. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 329 > 

 7. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 560, 2. E. lineata, Fair. Syst. And. 141. 

 E. fugeo (fern.), Harr. Ex. 150, pi. 44,/. 2. 



a. England. 



b. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Empis Eudamides, n. s., mas. Fulva, capite thoracisque vittis 

 quatuor cinereis, abdomine nigro apice fulvo, antennis fulvis 

 apice nigris, pedibus fulvis, genubus nigris, femoribus anteriori- 

 bus nigro vittatis, alis sublimpidis basi fulvis. 



Head gray, narrower than the chest, clothed with short black 

 hairs : eyes red : mouth tawny, with a black tip, as long as the chest : 

 feelers tawny, black towards their tips, longer than the head: chest 

 paler on each side, beset with short black hairs, adorned on the 

 back with four gray stripes : abdomen black, shining, clothed with 

 black hairs, its tip tawny : legs tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; 

 hips and trochanters gray ; knees black ; tips of feet piceous ; a short 

 black stripe on each of the four front thighs : wings nearly colour- 

 less, tawny towards the base. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the 

 wings 7 lines. 



a. North America. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Empis Amytis, n. s., mas. Fulva, capite thoracis disco abdomineque 

 nigris, abdominis lateribus fulvis, antennis nigris, pedibus ful- 

 vis, tar sis apice genubusque nigris, alis limpidis. 



Head black, much narrower than the chest: eyes dark red: 

 mouth tawny, with a black tip, much shorter than the chest : eyes 

 dark red : feelers black: chest and breast tawny ; disk of the for- 

 mer black : abdomen black, dull, tawny along each side : legs taw- 

 ny, clothed with short black hairs ; knees and tips of feet black : 

 wings colourless ; wing-ribs and poisers tawny ; veins piceous, 

 tawny towards the base. Length of the body 2i lines ; of the wings 

 8 lines. 

 a. New York. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Empis Ollius, n. s., fern. Fulva, capite cinereo, thoracis vittis 

 quatuor fuscis, abdomine antennisque nigris, pedibus fulvis, tar- 

 sis apice piceis, alis subfulvis. 



Nearly allied to E. Abcirus : head gray, thinly clothed beneath 

 with black hairs : hypostoma black, shining : lip dark tawny, piceous 

 at the tip, shorter than the body : eyes bright red : feelers black : 

 chest and breast dull tawny : chest adorned with four brown stripes, 

 between which are rows of short black bristles ; the hinder part of 

 the chest is beset with longer black bristles : abdomen black, shining: 



