564 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



thighs, very thick, mostly black above ; a stout tooth on each hind 

 shanV ; claws and foot-cushions yellow ; tips of claws black : wings 

 brown, gray on the disks of the segments and along the hind bor- 

 ders, and adorned with a pale tawny streak from the base to 

 the middle of the disk ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins pitchy, partly taw- 

 ny towards the base ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 5^ — 6% 

 lines ; of the wings 10 — 13 lines. 



a. Georgia. From Mr. Abbot's collection. 



Milesia Ania, n. s., fern. Nigra, thorace pilisfiavis bimaculato et 

 unifasciato, scutello ferrugineo, abdomine rufo fascia posticafla- 

 va, apice ventreque cyaneis, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis sub- 

 cinereis ad costam fuscis. 



Head black, adorned with white down : mouth black : feelers 

 black ; bristle nearly twice the length of the third joint, which is el- 

 liptical : chest and breast black, clothed with black hairs : chest 

 adorned with two spots of bright yellow hairs in front, and with a 

 band of the same behind ; scutcheon ferruginous : abdomen deep 

 red, adorned with a yellow band towards the tip, which is bright 

 blue ; underside blue : legs black ; claws tawny, with black tips ; 

 foot-cushions yellow: wings light gray, brown along the fore bor- 

 ders ; wing-ribs black ; veins black, tawny along the fore borders ; 

 poisers pitchy. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 14 

 lines. 



a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



Milesia cruciger, Wied. Auss. Zweif. ii. 105, 2. 



a. Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



b. North America. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



c. Georgia. From Mr. Abbot's collection. 



Milesia vespiformis, Fall. Syrph. 9, 3, iv. 332. Meig. Dipt. iii. 



232, 5. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 533, 5. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 



587, 1. Musca vespiformis, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 986. Faun. 



Suec. 1811. Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. v. 2873, 44. Deg. Ins. vi. 



54, 13. 7W*. iii. 647. Syrphus vespiformis, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 



430, 46. S. apiformis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. 300, 80. Panz. 



Faun. Germ. 90, 19.? Milesia apiformis, Latr. Gen. Crust, iv. 



332. ? 

 a. South of France. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



c. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



