46 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Limnobia badia, n/s., fern. Fulva, capite antennisque nigris, tho- 

 race fusco univittato et bimaculato, abdomine fusco fulvo cincto, 

 pedibus fulvis, tarsis fuscis, alls subgriseis, venis transversis 

 fusco marginatis. 



Body tawny: head and its appendages black: eyes bronze 

 colour : chest with three bright brown marks, the middle one form- 

 ing a long and narrow stripe, and placed in advance of the other 

 two, which are nearly round : abdomen brown ; hind borders of the 

 segments tawny ; last segment and its appendages bright tawny : 

 legs tawny, pubescent ; shanks darker than the thighs ; feet brown : 

 wings slightly gray ; veins dark brown ; cross veins bordered with 

 brown ; poisers tawny, with brown tips. Length of the body 3J 

 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



a. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Bedman's collection. 



Div. 0. Meig. Dipt. pi. 4, /. 13. 



Limnobia tripunctata, Meig. Dipt. i. 138, 41. Macq. Hist. Nat. 



Dipt. i. 103, 13, pi. 2, /. 7, 8. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 837, 18. 



Gim. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1846, 2, 27, 22. Tipula 



tripunctata, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 405, 26. Ent. Syst. iv. 241, 36. 



Syst. Antl. 31, 36. Gmel. Syst. Nat. v. 2817, 71. Tipula 



(phragmitidis), Schrank . Ins. Austr. 860. 

 a. England. From Mr. Walker's collection. 



Limnobia sexpunctata, Meig. Dipt. i. 139, 42. Macq. Hist. Nat. 



Dipt. i. 103, 14. Tipula sexpunctata, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 405, 



25. Ent. Syst. iv. 241, 34. Syst. Antl. 30, 33. Gmel. Ed. 



Syst. Nat. v. 2816, 69. Limonia sexpunctata, Latr. Gen. 



Crust, iv. 259. Cons. Gen. 442. Lam. Anim. sans Verteb. 



iii. 445, 3. Meig. Klass. Zweif. i. 59, 15, t. 3, /. 15. 

 a. England. From Mr. Walker's collection. 



Limnobia nubeculosa, Meig. Dipt. i. 140, 44. Macq. Hist. Nat. 



Dipt. i. 104, 16. Gim. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1846, iii. 2, 



27, 23. Tipula &c. ? Deg. Ins. vi. 135, 5. 

 a. England. From Mr. Walker's collection. 



Limnobia sera, n. s., mas. Fulva, thorace abdomineque fusco vitta- 

 tis, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis ) femoribus tibiisque apice 

 tarsisque fuscis, alis limpidis. 



Body tawny : feelers black, tawny at the base : eyes black : a 

 brown stripe on the chest, and on the abdomen another, which 

 ceases before the tip : legs tawny ; feet, and tips of thighs and of 



