LIST OF DIPTERA. 97 



of each segment pale yellow : legs pale yellow ; tips of hind thighs 

 brown ; feet and tips of shanks dull tawny : wings pale tawny, 

 adorned with two brown bands, of which the one nearest to the 

 wing-tip is much longer and more irregular than the other; veins 

 dark tawny ; poisers bright tawny. Length of the body lj line ; of 

 the wings 4 lines. 



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



Mycetophila lasta, n. s. Rufofusca, flaw hirta, thoraee antice 

 fulvo postice flavo vario, abdomine flavo quinque fasciato, an- 

 tennis fulvis, femoribus flavis, tibiis fulvis, metafemoribus apice 

 tar sisque fuscis, alls fusco bifasciatis. 



Body thickly clothed with yellow hairs : head brown : eyes 

 black : palpi tawny : feelers dull tawny, yellow at the base : chest 

 bright tawny ; its hind part pale reddish brown and varied with yel- 

 low: abdomen reddish brown, with five yellow bands along the su- 

 tures of the segments: hips and thighs pale yellow; tips of hind 

 thighs brow r n ; shanks pale tawny ; feet brown : wings slightly 

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

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

 larger and more irregular than the other ; veins tawny ; poisers 

 white. Length of the body If line; of the wings 4 lines. 



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



Mycetophila parva, Barnstons MSS. Rufo-fusca, thoraee fulvo 

 vario, pectore flavo, antennis fuscis, pedibus flavis femoribus 

 apice tar sisque fuscis, tibiis fulvis, alis sub cinereis fusco bimacu- 

 latis. 



Head brown : eyes black : palpi tawny : feelers brown, yellow 

 at the base : chest reddish brown, varied with tawny on each side : 

 breast yellow : abdomen reddish brown : hips and thighs yellow, 

 tips of the latter brown ; shanks dull tawny ; feet brown : wings 

 slightly gray, with two brown spots beneath the fore border; the one 

 nearest to the tip of the wing is larger and more irregular than the 

 other ; veins brown ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 1 \ line ; 

 of the wings 3 lines. 



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

 G. Barnston, Esq. 



b. Wings unspotted (Meig. Dipt. vi. 297). 



Mycetophila punctata, Meig. Dipt. i. 264, 8. Macq. Hist. Nat. 

 Dipt. i. 130, 7. Stag. Kroy. Nat. Tids. iii. 247, 12. M. se- 

 micincta ? Meig. Dipt. i. 264, 9. M. cunctans ? Wied. Meig. 



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