LIST OF D1PTERA. 643 



a little longer than the head and the chest: chest and abdomen 

 beset with long black bristles : breast and abdomen covered with 

 white bloom : abdomen brassy beneath : legs tawny, clothed with 

 a few black hairs and bristles, adorned with parallel rows of very 

 minute black bristles ; thighs black ; four front thighs tawny 

 towards the tips ; tips of feet pitchy ; hind feet black : wings 

 brown ; a pale yellowish spot on the middle of the fore border ; hind 

 borders, tips, and some streaks on the disk colourless ; wing-ribs 

 and veins black ; poisers pitchy. Length of the body 3 lines ; of 

 the wings 7 lines. 

 a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Eev, D. F. Morgan. 



Psilopus Cupido, n. s., mas. Purpureus, capite viridi bimaculato, 

 thoracis vittis tribus viridibus, abdominis lateribus cyaneo-viridi- 

 bus, antennis pedibusque fulvis, alis limpidis ad costam fulvis, 

 fuscoque bimaculatis. 



Body beset with black hairs and bristles : head bright purple, 

 not broader than the chest, covered in front, behind and beneath 

 with silvery down, adorned with a green spot on each side of the 

 crown : eyes red : mouth tawny : feelers tawny ; bristle black, 

 shorter than the body: chest bluish purple, adorned with three 

 green stripes ; sides and breast covered with silvery bloom : abdo- 

 men purple, bluish green on each side, coppery green beneath : legs 

 tawny, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; feet.dark tawny, pitchy 

 towards the tips : wings colourless, tawny, with two brown marks 

 along the fore border for more than half the length ; beyond this 

 are two brown bands joined together on the fore border ; the second 

 band is very broad, but does not join the hind border nor the tip of 

 the wing; wing-ribs and veins tawny, the latter pitchy towards the 

 tips; poisers tawny. Length of the body 2j lines; of the wings 5 

 lines. 

 a. East Indies. From Archdeacon Clerk's collection. 



Psilopus cams, n. s., fern. Viridis, cyaneo purpureoque varius, an- 

 tennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, alis albidis apicem versus fuscis , ner- 

 vis transversis fusco nebulosis. 



Body beset with black hairs and bristles : head bluish green 

 and tinged with purple on the crown, golden green and co- 

 vered with white down in front : eyes bright red : mouth tawny : 

 feelers black : chest bright green, striped with blue and purple ; 

 sides and breast covered with silvery bloom : abdomen bluish green, 

 covered beneath with silvery bloom: legs pale tawny, thinly clothed 



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