562 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



and poisers tawny. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 



18 lines. 



a. ? 



Milesia Lamus, n. s., fern. Flava nigro varia, abdomine fulvo, basi 

 fasciis vittisque nigris, antennis fulvis, pedibus fulvis, tibiis pos- 

 ticis ferrugineo vittatis, femoribus posticis tarsisque ferrugineis, 

 alls cinereis ad costam fuscis. 



Head yellow, with a black band across the crown, whence a 

 black stripe extends to the base of the feelers ; the latter are seated 

 on a brown space, and a tawny stripe proceeds from them to the cly- 

 peus : mouth pitchy : feelers bright tawny ; third joint nearly 

 round ; bristle about thrice its length, pitchy towards the tip : eyes 

 coppery, varied with dark red ; facets small : chest yellow, adorned 

 with a square black spot on each side of the front, and with a black 

 stripe along the middle joining a black band between the wings ; 

 another black band occupies the fore border of the scutcheon : 

 breast black, yellow in front, and adorned with two yellow spots on 

 each side: abdomen tawny, black at the base, adorned with two 

 slender black bands along the fore borders of the segments ; a black 

 stripe extends from the base along half the length of the following 

 segment, and thence passes to the sides of the abdomen by means of 

 two slender slightly curved and retreating bands ; another black 

 stripe springs from the black suture of the following segment, but 

 is much shorter than the first, and the bands in which it terminates 

 are nearly straight ; the third black suture does not emit a stripe, 

 but from it proceed two black bands, which are oblique and irregu- 

 lar in their course to the sides of the abdomen ; underside yellow, 

 with a large black spot in the middle of each segment, and a brown 

 spot on each side of its hind border : legs tawny ; feet ferruginous, 

 pitchy towards the tips ; claws and foot-cushions yellow, tips of 

 claws black ; hind legs ferruginous, their shanks tawny, with ferru- 

 ginous stripes: wings gray, brown along the fore borders for 

 about half the breadth where the two colours are intermingled ; 

 wing-ribs tawny ; veins pitchy, ferruginous along the fore border, 

 tawny in the disk ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 9 lines ; of 

 the wings 16 lines. 



Var. ft Scutcheon black, excepting the hind border : wings 

 gray, tinged with brown along the fore border for one-third of the* 

 breadth. 



