568 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



long pale tawny hairs : abdomen dark brown, nearly linear, longer, 

 but hardly broader than the chest, clothed with bright tawny hairs ; 

 the hairs at the base are pale, those at the tip are black : legs black, 

 clothed with tawny hairs ; feet and four front shanks ferruginous ; 

 tips of claws black; hind thighs rather thick, unarmed; hind 

 shanks pitchy, somewhat swelling towards the tips: wings gray, 

 slightly tawny at the base and along the fore borders ; wing-ribs 

 and veins black, the latter ferruginous at* the base and along the 

 fore borders ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the 

 wings 17 lines. 



Milesia verbosa, Harris, Catalogue Ins. Massachusetts. Fern. — 

 Nigra, pilisfulvis vestita, thorace pilis nigris fasciato , abdominis 

 apice pilis nigris albidisque vario, antennis nigris apice ferrugi- 

 neis, pedibus rferrugineis, femoribus nigris, alis limpidis basifer- 

 rugineis ad costam subfulvis. 



Body black: head a little narrower than the chest, thickly 

 clothed with tawny hairs, covered in front with white down ; clypeus 

 prominent: mouth and feelers black; third joint of the feelers fer- 

 ruginous, nearly round : eyes black ; all the facets very small : ,chest 

 thickly clothed with tawny hairs ; a band of black hairs between the 

 wings ; breast clothed with pale tawny hairs : abdomen obconical, a 

 little narrower and much longer than the chest, clothed with tawny 

 hairs, and at the tip with black and whitish hairs : legs ferruginous, 

 thinly clothed with tawny hairs ; thighs and tips of claws black ; 

 hind thighs thick, unarmed; hind shanks curved, banded with 

 black : wings colourless, ferruginous at the base, slightly tawny 

 along the borders of the veins ; wing-ribs black ; veins pitchy ; poi- 

 sers ferruginous. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 15 lines. 



a. North America. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Pipiza, Fallen. 



Pipiza ornata, Meig. Dipt. iii. 243, 3. 

 a. ? 



Pipiza noctiluca, Fall. Syrph. 59, 2. Meig. Dipt. iii. 244, 6. 

 Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 568, 3. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 615, 1. 

 Musca noctiluca, Linn. Faun. Suec. 1814. Gmel. Ed. Syst. 

 Nat. v. 2874, 48. Syrphus noctilucus, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 431, 

 54. Ent. Syst. iv. 304, 98. S. Eosarum, Panz. Faun. Germ. 

 95, 21. Er'istalis noctilucus, Fabr. Syst. And. 247, 69. Mi- 

 lesia noctiluca, Latr. Gen. Crust, iv. 332. 



a. England. 



b. France. 





