530 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



black bands : eyes black, convex ; facets very small ; those along 

 the side borders rather larger: mouth and feelers black: chest 

 clothed with pale tawny hairs, adorned with two indistinct whitish 

 stripes ; scutcheon tawny, armed with two tawny teeth ; breast and 

 underside with short tawny hairs, adorned with a short tawny stripe 

 at its tip ; sides and hind borders of the segments tawny ; first band 

 interrupted above: legs tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs; 

 thighs with a black spot on each side ; claws black : wings brown, 

 darker along the fore borders; wing-ribs piceous ; veins ferrugi- 

 nous ; poisers tawny, with apple-green knobs. Length of the body 

 6 lines ; of the wings 11 lines. 



a. United States. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Stratiomys norma, Wied. Auss. Zweif. ii. 62, 3. 



a. St. Martin's Falls, Albany Kiver, Hudson's Bay. Presented by 



G. Bamston, Esq. 



b. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



Stratiomys Barca, n. s., mas. Nigra, scutelli dentibus duabus ful- 

 vis apice nigris, abdominis fas ciis fulvis supra iriterruptis vittaque 

 apicali fulva, antennis pedibusque nigris, tibiis piceis, tarsis ful- 

 vis, alis fusco-fulvis. 



Body black : head narrower than the chest, thickly clothed in 

 front and beneath with golden hairs: eyes piceous, thin, facets very 

 small ; those of the fore part larger : mouth black, clothed with 

 short pale tawny hairs : feelers black, full twice the length of the 

 head: chest finely punctured, clothed with short ferruginous hairs; 

 breast clothed with pale tawny hairs ; scutcheon armed with two 

 tawny teeth, whose tips are black : abdomen rather thick, clothed 

 with tawny hairs, a little broader and longer than the chest ; hind 

 borders of the segments tawny beneath, and on each side above : a 

 short tawny stripe on the tip of the abdomen : legs clothed with 

 tawny hairs ; hips and thighs black ; shanks piceous ; knees and 

 feet tawny : wings brownish tawny ; wing-ribs and fore border veins 

 piceous ; other veins and poisers tawny. Fern. — Head clothed with 

 whitish hairs: chest clothed with pale tawny hairs; hind border 

 and teeth of the scutcheon tawny: shanks tawny. Length of the 

 body 5 — 6 lines; of the wings 9 — 10 lines. 



a. China. Presented by G. T. Lay, Esq. 



Stratiomys Nymphis, n. s., mas. Nigra, scutello flavo, abdominis 

 fasciis fulvis supra interruptis, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, 

 femoribus nigris, alis limpidis. 



Body black : head nearly as broad as the chest, thickly clothed 

 beneath with pale yellow hairs: eyes bronze-black; facets small, 





