weif. 



136 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Pangonia inconspicua, n. s., fern. Fusca, capite pectoreque canis, 

 abdomine piceo maculis nonnullis albis, lateribus suturisque fer- 

 rugineis, antennis nigris , pedibus cinereo-piceis, tibiis fulvis, alis 

 subcinereis. 



Body brown : head with a hoary bloom, clothed beneath with 

 white hairs : eyes bronze : feelers black : mouth tawny, with a black 

 tip, longer than the head : chest with four hoary stripes, ferrugi- 

 nous on each side : breast hoary and clothed with white hairs : ab- 

 domen piceous, with a hoary bloom ; hind borders and sides of the 

 segments ferruginous ; a small white, but sometimes obsolete trian- 

 gular spot on the hind border of each segment : legs gray ; shanks 

 tawny ; feet piceous : wings very slightly gray ; wing-ribs and veins 

 ferruginous ; poisers tawny, with piceous knobs. Length of the 

 body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. • ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Pangonia spiloptera, Weid. Dipt, Exot. i. 57, 10. Auss. Zwei 



i. 102,26. 

 a. Cape of Good Hope. From Mr. Children's collection. 



Pangonia leucomelas, M. B. Weid, Auss. Zweif. i. 90, 7. 

 a. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



Pangonia sexfasciata, n. s., fern. Nigra, thorace cinereo trivittato, 

 abdomine albo sexfasciato, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis sub- 

 limpidis, venarum marginibus subfulvis. 



Body black : head reddish brown above, covered with gray 

 bloom in front, clothed with yellowish white hairs beneath: feelers 

 and mouth black ; lancets ferruginous : chest thinly clothed with 

 gray down, and having three very indistinct gray stripes ; sides and 

 breast clothed with tawny hairs : abdomen with six white bands on 

 the hind borders of the segments ; the first, second, fourth, and fifth 

 entire ; the third obsolete on each side ; the sixth obsolete in the 

 middle ; the underside with two broader white bands : legs black : 

 wings nearly colourless, brownish tawny at the base, and on the 

 fore borders, and along the veins ; wing-ribs and veins piceous, the 

 latter ferruginous at the base ; poisers piceous. Length of the body 

 8 lines ; of the wings 17 lines. 



a. Africa (Cape ?) From Mr. Children's collection. 



Pangonia melanopyga, Weid. Zool. Mag. iii. 31, 46. Dipt. Exot. 

 i. 56, 8. Auss. Zweif. i. 98, 20. Macq. Dipt. Exot. i. 1, 

 972. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. 429, pi. 15, /. 13. 



a. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



