LIST OF DIPTERA. 567 



facets on the fore part of the crown larger than those elsewhere : 

 chest adorned with two pale tawny stripes ; its sides and the breast 

 also pale tawny : breast covered with hoary bloom ; scutcheon 

 clothed with long tawny hairs : abdomen long-obconical, longer and 

 a little narrower than the chest, clothed beneath with tawny hairs : 

 legs black, clothed with short tawny hairs ; hind thighs rather thick, 

 toothed beneath ; claws and foot-cushions yellow ; tips of claws 

 black : wings dark gray ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers tawny. 

 Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. Port Nicholson, New Zealand. From Mr. Earl's collection. 



Milesia speciosa, Fabr. Syst. Antl. 188, 6. Latr. Gen. Crust, iv. 

 332. Meig. Dipt. iii. 234, 7, Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 34. Macq. 

 Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 534, 7. Syrphus speciosus, Panz. Faun. 

 Germ. liv. 6. 



a. England. 



b. France. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



c. ? 



Milesia Amithaon, n. s., mas. Nigra, pilis fulvis vestita, abdomi- 

 nis lateribus pilis fulvis nigrisque vestitis, antennis pedibusque 

 nigris, alis cinereis ad costam fuscis fuscoque venosis. 



Body black, shining : head as broad as the chest, clothed with 

 dark tawny hairs: mouth and feelers black ; eyes brassy black ; fa- 

 cets on the fore part of the crown rather larger than those elsewhere : 

 chest clothed with dark tawny hairs: abdomen nearly linear, as 

 broad as the chest and much longer ; sides clothed alternately with 

 black and dark tawny hairs : legs black, clothed with black hairs ; 

 foot-cushions and claws dark tawny ; tips of claws black ; hind 

 thighs very thick, toothed beneath ; hind shanks curved, with a 

 knob on the inner side : wings dark gray, brown along the fore bor- 

 ders and on the sides of the veins of the disk ; wing-ribs and veins 

 black, some of the latter ferruginous towards the base; poisers ferru- 

 ginous. Length of the body 1\ lines ; of the wings 15 lines. 



a. North Carolina. 



Milesia Bubulcus, n. s., mas. Nigro-fusca, pilis fulvis vestita, ab- 

 dominis apice pilis nigris hirto, antennis pedibusque nigris, 

 tibiis tarsisque anterioribus ferrugineis, tibiis posticis piceis, alis 

 cinereis basi et ad costam subfulvis. 



Body black : head covered with pale tawny down, clothed with 

 pale tawny hairs ; clypeus prominent : mouth and feelers black : 

 eyes pitchy, bronzed here and there ; facets on the fore part of the 

 crown larger than those elsewhere : chest dark brown, clothed with 



