654 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Group III. Plectropus, Holiday, ZooL Journ. v. 353. 



Pokphyrops pallipes, Meig. Dipt, iv. 55, 23. Musca pallipes, 

 Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. 340, 116. Dolichopus pallipes, Fabr. Syst. 

 And. 266, 2. 



a. England. 



Medeterus, Fischer. 

 Group I. Holiday r , Zool. Journ. v. 355. 



Medeterus regius, Meig. Dipt. iv. 60, 1. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. 



i. 451, 1, pi. 10, /. 24. Dolichopus regius, Fabr. Syst. And. 



267, 5. Latr. Gen. Crust, iv. 292. D. virens, Lam. Anim. 



sans Verteb. iii. 425, 4. Musca virens, Panz. Faun. Germ. 54, 



16. Hydrophorus regius, Fall. Dolich. 2, 1. Zett. Ins. 



Lapp. 700, 1. 

 a. England. 



Medeteeus viridis, Meig. Dipt. iv. 60, 2. 

 a. England. 



Medeterus rostratus? Meig. Dipt. iv. 61, 3. Macq. Hist. Nat. 



Dipt. ii. 452, 2. Musca rostrata, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 448, 68. 



Ent. Syst. iv. 342, 125. Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. v. 2582, 227. 



Dolichopus rostratus, Fabr. Syst. And. 269, 15. Latr. Gen. 



Crust, iv. 293. Medetera, Fischer, Prog. Mosk. 1819. 

 a. England. 



Medeterus Carmichaelii, Leach, MSS. JEneo-viridis, aureo suf- 

 fusus, thorace vittato, antennis pedibusque nigris, femoribus viri- 

 dibus, alls albo-fulvis. 



Body brassy green, covered with golden bloom, which is ar- 

 ranged in stripes on the chest : eyes dark red : feelers and mouth 

 black : chest beset with a few black bristles : legs black, covered 

 with tawny down ; thighs bright green : wings pale tawny, white at 

 the base and on the disks of the veins ; wing-ribs and veins tawny, 

 the latter pitchy towards the tips ; poisers tawny. Length of the 

 body 1^ line ; of the wings 4 lines. 



a. Tristram da Cunha. From Dr. Leach's collection. 



Medetebus Tristramensis, Leach, MSS. * Fulvo-cinereus, antennis 

 pedibusque nigris, alis subcinereis. 



Body gray, with a slight tawny tinge : eyes brassy : mouth and 

 feelers black : legs green, beset with a few short black bristles, co- 



