546 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



hind thighs black except their tips ; a black band on each hind 

 shank ; feet tawny : wings colouiless ; wing-ribs black ; veins 

 piceous, yellow towards the base ; poisers yellow. Length of the 

 body 2 lines ; of the wings 4 lines. 



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



Par ag us Antimenes, n. s., mas. et fem. Niger, abdominis fascia 

 lata subinterrupta fulva, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, femori- 

 bus nigris, tibiis posticis nigro fasciatis, atis limpidis. 



Body black, short and broad, clothed with short tawny hairs : 

 head as broad as the chest ; front of the male yellow, of the female 

 with a dark tawny stripe on each side : eyes piceous : mouth and 

 feelers black : abdomen oval, a little broader and longer than the 

 chest, adorned with a broad tawny, nearly interrupted band, which 

 is broader in the male than in the female : legs tawny ; hips and 

 thighs black ; tips of the latter tawny ; a black band across each 

 hind shank : wings colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, 

 tawny at the base ; poisers tawny. Length of the body If — 2j 

 lines ; of the wings 3^ — 5 lines. 



a. Isle of France. 



Ascia, Megerle. 



Ascia podagrica, Meig. Dipt. iii. 186, 1. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. 

 i. 573, 1. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 582, 2. Syrphus podagricus, Fabr. 

 Sp. Ins. ii. 430, 43. Ent. Syst. iv/299, 77. Panz. Faun. 

 Germ. lix. 16. Musca podagrica, Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. v. 

 2873, 354. Musca, &c, Geoff. Ins. 517, 45 ? M. elongata, 

 Schrank, Faun. Boic. iii. 2414. M. ichneumonea, Schrank, 

 Ins. Austr. 91. M. molio, Harr. Ex. Ill, pi. 33,/. 43. (mas.) 

 M. tenur, Harr. Ex. 112, pi. 33, /. 59. Merodon podagricus, 

 Fabr. Syst. Anil. 198, 10. Milesia podagrica, Latr. Gen. 

 Crust, iv. 331. Fall. Syrph. 13, 11. 



a. England. 



b. France. 



c. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Ascia globosa, n. s., fem. Nigro-cenea, antennis fulvis basi nigris, 

 pedibus fulvis femoribus nigris, tibiis posticis piceis, alis lim- 

 pidis. 



Body brassy black, clothed with hoary down : eyes dark red : 

 feelers dark tawny ; first joint black : abdomen much broader than 

 the chest, and nearly twice its length : legs tawny ; hips and thighs 



