LIST OF DIPTERA. 85 



Dixa nubilipennis, Curt. Brit. Ent. 409, 5. 

 a. Ireland. Presented by A. H. Haliday, Esq. 



Dixa nova, n. s., mas. Nigra, thorace rufo bivittato, pedibus fulvis , 

 tarsis fuscis, femoribus tibiisque apice nigris, alis subcinereis, 

 fusco unimaculatis. 



Body black : chest with two dull red stripes : feelers black, 

 about half the length of the body : legs dark tawny ; feet brown ; 

 tips of the thighs and of the shanks black : wings slightly gray, each 

 with a brown spot shading part of the cross veins ; veins brown ; 

 poisers yellow. Length of the body If lines ; of the wings 4 J lines. 



a. New York Factory. Presented by Dr. Rae. 



Dixa recens, n. s., mas. Nigro, thoracis vittis quinque scutello pec- 

 toreque rufis, pedibus fulvis, femoribus tibiisque apice tarsisque 

 fuscis, alis subcinereis immaculatis. 



Body black : chest with five dark red stripes, meeting behind ; 

 scutcheon and breast dark red : feelers black, more than half the 

 length of the body : legs tawny ; feet, and tips of the thighs and of 

 the shanks, brown : wings slightly gray, not spotted ; veins brown ; 

 poisers tawny, with brown knobs. Length of the body 1^ line ; of 

 J the wings \\ lines. 



a. New York Factory. Presented by Dr. Rae. 



Bolitophila, Hoffmansegg. 



Bolitophila maculipennis, Walker, Ent. Mag. iii. 179. B. bi- 

 maculata, Zett. Ins. Lapp. 854, 168, 1. Stceger, Kroger, Nat. 

 Tids. iii. 228, 1. Messala Saundersii, Curt. Brit. Ent. 581. 

 I a. England. 

 i b. England. From Mr. Walker's collection. 



, Bolitophila fusca, Meig. Dipt. i. 221, 2. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. 

 i. 126, 2. Gim. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1846, xix. 2, 52, 

 1. Stceger, Kroger, Nat. Tids. iii. 228, 2. Macrocera hybrida, 

 Meig. Klass. Zweif. i. 47, 3. 



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



Macrocera, Meigen. 



Macrocera lutea, Panzer, Faun. Germ. cv. 7. Meig. Dipt. i. 223, 

 1. Curt. Brit. Ent. 637, 5. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 128, 4. 

 Zett. Ins. Lapp. 855, 1. Gim. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 

 1846, x*x. 2, 52, 2. Stagger, Kroger, Nat. Tids. iii. 230, 1. 



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



b. Alten, Finmark. From Mr. Walker's collection. 



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