LIST OF DIPTERA. 525 



club-shaped, tawny at the base : mouth black : chest increasing in 

 breadth from the fore border to the hind border: abdomen nearly 

 elliptical, a little broader, but not longer than the chest : legs taw- 

 ny : wings gray, darker along the fore borders ; wing-ribs, veins, 

 and poisers piceous. Length of the body 2f lines ; of the wings 4 

 lines. 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Kev. D. F. Morgan. 



Cyphomyia, Wiedemann. 



Cyphomyia auriflamma, Hoffmansegg, Wied. Anal. Ent. 13, 4. 



Zool. Mag. iii. 54, 51. Wied. Auss. Zvjeif. ii. 54, 1. Macq. 



Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 242, 2. 

 a. Brazil. 



Cyphomyia cyanea, Wied. Auss. Zweif. i. 57, 7. Macq. Hist. Nat. 



Dipt. i. 242, 1, pi. 6, /. 3. Stratiomys cyanea, Fabr. Ent. 



Syst. iv. 265, 11. Syst. And. 80, 11. Coq. III. 100, pi. 23, 



/.4. 

 a. Columbia. Presented by Capt. Friend. 



Ptilocera, Wiedemann. 



Ptilocera quadridentata, Wied. Auss. Zweif. ii. 59, 1,/?/. 8,/. 4, 

 a — d. Jenson, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. iv. 321. Macq. 

 Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 240, 1, pi. 6, /. 1. 



a. Java. 



Ptilocera smaragdina, n. s. Viridis cyaneo purpureoque varia, an- 

 tennis nigris ramosis, pedibus nigris, alis nigro-fuscis. 



Head black, narrower than the chest : eyes pale bronze; facets 

 very small : mouth black : feelers black, longer than the head, 

 adorned on one side with four feathered branches, and with three on 

 the other, ending in a spine, which is also feathered and has a knob 

 at the tip : chest and abdomen thickly punctured : chest spangled 

 with blue, purple and green; scutcheon armed with four black teeth : 

 abdomen a little wider than long, broader and shorter than the chest, 

 of the same colour, but less brilliant ; sides and hind part thinly 

 clothed with hoary hairs : breast and underside of abdomen more 

 dull, clothed with hoary down : legs black : wings blackish brown, 

 paler along the hind borders ; a dull tawny band across each fore 

 border; wing-ribs, veins, and poisers black. Length of the body 4 

 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



a. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



3 a 3 



