548 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Baccha obscuripennis, Meig. Dipt. iii. 199, 4. Curt. Brit. Ent. 



737, 4. Musca perexilis, Harr. Ex. 81, pi. 24, /. 24. 

 a. England. 



Baccha tabida, Meig. Dipt. iii. 199, 5. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 

 578, 3. Curt. Brit. Ent. 737, 5. 



a. England. 



b. France. 



Baccha varia, n. s., mas. et fem. JEnea, capite seutellique lateribus 

 flavis, abdominis basi maculisque quatuor flaws, antennis ferru- 

 gineis, pedibus piceis, femoribus ceneis, tibiis basi fulvis, alis 

 subcinereis. 



Body brassy : head yellow, with a brassy stripe in front : eyes 

 red : mouth piceous : feelers ferruginous ; scutcheon yellow ; its 

 disk brassy : abdomen yellow at the base, and adorned with two 

 yellow spots on each side : legs piceous ; hips and thighs brassy ; 

 shanks tawny towards the base: wings slightly gray, sometimes 

 brown along the fore borders ; wing-ribs and brands piceous ; veins 

 black; poisers yellow. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 5 

 lines. 

 a. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Baccha picta, Wied. Auss. Zweif. ii. 93, 2. 

 a. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



Baccha aurinota, Harris, Catalogue Ins. Massachusetts. 2Eneus, 

 thorace postico scutelloque aureis, pectore cano, abdomine maculis 

 sex fulvis ornato, pedibus fulvis, metapedibus pieeis, alis limpi- 

 dis,fusco bimaculatis. 



Head wanting : chest bronze, clothed with short pale hairs ; 

 hind part and scutcheon gold-colour: breast covered with hoary 

 bloom : abdomen more than thrice the length of the chest, adorned 

 with three tawny spots on each side : legs tawny ; hind legs pi- 

 ceous, tawny on the tips of their thighs and on the base of their 

 shanks : wings colourless ; a blackish brown spot close to the base, 

 and another much larger irregular one of the same colour beyond 

 the middle of the fore border ; this spot is narrower and paler 

 in the disk than along the fore border, where there is a little colour- 

 less interval ; wing-ribs piceous ; veins black, piceous towards the 

 base ; poisers yellow, with piceous knobs. Length of the body 6 

 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 

 a. United States. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



