XIST OF DIPTEEA. 77 



having alternate rows of long and of short branches on each side : 

 chest tawny, black on the disk, and with some spots of the same 

 colour on each side : abdomen tawny, having along its back an in- 

 terrupted black stripe, which is dilated towards the hind border of 

 each segment : legs tawny ; feet and tips of the thighs brown : wings 

 slightly tawny, with a small brown brand near the tip of the fore 

 border ; veins brown, tawny at the base. Fern. — Head black : palpi 

 tawny, black at the tips : feelers tawny, moniliform towards their 

 tips, much shorter than the chest ; first and second joints black. 

 Length of the body 8 — 12 lines; of the wings 14 — 16 lines. 



a. Newfoundland. Presented by W. C. St. John, Esq. 



Ctenophora xanthomelana, n. s., fern. Nigra, thorace ferrugineo 

 rufo trivittato, abdomine basi fulvo, alls fuscis. 



Head and appendages black : feelers serrulate, much less than 

 half the length of the chest: chest ferruginous, with three very 

 broad brownish red stripes, varied with reddish brown on each side 

 and behind : abdomen black, attenuated towards the tip, and reach- 

 ing much beyond the length of the wings ; segments from the first 

 to the third orange-tawny : legs black, pubescent : wings brown, 

 with a small dark brown brand near the tip of the fore border ; veins 

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

 14 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



a. East India. From Mr. Children's collection. 



Ctenophora laeta, Fabr. Sgst. AntL 19, 8. Wied. Dipt. Exot. i. 

 20, 1. Auss. Zweif. i. 38, 2. Macq. Dipt. Exot. i. 42, I, pi. 

 2, /. 1. Tipula lffita, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. 239, 27. 



a. North Bengal. From Miss Campbell's collection. 



b. Scinde. From Mr. Warwick's collection. 



Ctenophora Taprobanes, n. s., fem. Flava, thorace fusco trivit- 

 tato, abdominis segmentis nigro fasciatis, antennis pedibusque 

 fuscis, tibiis basi albo-cinctis, alis fuscis fiavo 7-maculatis. 



Body bright yellow : a black spot on the back of the hind head : 

 eyes black : mouth and palpi tawny : feelers dark brown, tawny at 

 the base : chest with a few brown spots on each side, and three 

 brown stripes on the back, the middle stripe very much in advance 

 of the side stripes and divided into two parts by a tawny line ; three 

 black spots on the scutcheon, and two on the hind chest : abdomen 

 long, spindle-shaped ; sides and tip ferruginous ; first and second 

 segments pale tawny ; fore borders of the other segments black : legs 

 brown ; thighs brownish tawny ; a white ring at the base of each 



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