96 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Mycetophila ornaticollis, Megerle, Meig. Dipt. i. 269, 19, vi. 297. 



Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 5. Gim. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 



1846, xix. 2, 63, 19. Stag. Kroy. Nat. Tids. iii. 250, 14. 

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



Mycetophila bifasciata, Barnston's MSS. Nigra, scutello ferru- 

 gineo, abdomine nigro-fusco suturis fulvis, antennis nigris, pedi- 

 bus fusco variis, alis cinereis fusco nebulosis. 



Head and chest black, clothed with short tawny down : eyes 

 and feelers black, the latter ferruginous at the base: scutcheon fer- 

 ruginous : abdomen brownish black ; hind borders of the segments 

 tawny ; feet, thighs at the base and at the tips, and tips of the hind 

 hips, brown : wings somewhat gray, clouded with brown below the 

 fore border about the middle and near the tip, which is also indis- 

 tinctly clouded with gray ; veins brown ; poisers tawny. Length of 

 the body 2\ lines ; of the wings 5f lines. 



a. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay. Presented by 

 G. Barnston, Esq. 



Mycetophila propinqua, n.s. Rufo-fulva flavo hirta, thorace fusco 

 bivittato, abdomine rufo-fusco suturis fulvis, antennis fulvis apice 

 fuscis, pedibus flavis, femoribus apice fulvis, tarsis fuscis, alis 

 subfulvis fusco bifasciatis. 



Head tawny, very thickly clothed with yellow hairs: palpi 

 tawny: eyes black: feelers tawny, brown towards the tips: chest 

 reddish tawny, with a short brown stripe on each side : hind chest 

 pale tawny ; its three reddish lobes covered with a white bloom : 

 abdomen reddish brown, clothed with yellow hairs ; hind borders of 

 the segments tawny : legs yellow ; tips of the thighs tawny ; shanks 

 darker than the thighs ; feet brown, tawny towards the base: wings 

 pale tawny, especially towards the fore border, and adorned with two 

 brown bands, of which the one nearest to the wing-tip is continued 

 along the fore border of the wing to the tip, and is a little broader, 

 but hardly longer or more irregular than the other ; veins tawny ; 

 poisers yellow. Length of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



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



Mycetophila contigua, n. s. Rufo-fusca flavo hirta, capite fulvo, 

 thoracis margine antico lateribusque flavis, abdominis segmentis 

 flavo fasciatis, antennis fuscis, pedibus flavis, femoribus apice 

 fuscis, tibiis apice tarsisque fuscis, alis fusco bifasciatis. 



Body clothed with short yellow hairs: head tawny: eyes black: 

 palpi tawny : feelers brown, tawny at the base : chest reddish brown, 

 yellow on each side in front : abdomen reddish brown ; hind border 



