LIST OF DIPTERA. 197 



Chrysops fascipennis, var. ? Macq. Hist. Nat. Ins. Dipt. i. 216, 7. 

 a. Georgia. From Mr. Abbot's collection. 



Chrysops areolatus, n. s. Fulvus, tkorace abdomineque fusco tri- 

 vittatis, pedibus fulvis, tarsis anticis piceis, alis limpidis, fascia 

 basi marginibusque anticis fuscis. 



Head bright tawny, ferruginous in front, having a piceous 

 tubercle on which the eyelets are seated, and a larger ferruginous 

 tubercle above the base of the feelers : eyes coppery : palpi tawny : 

 lancets ferruginous : sucker piceous : feelers nearly as long as the 

 chest ; first and second joints ferruginous, and beset with black 

 bristles ; second joint nearly as long as the first ; chest bright 

 tawny, clothed with yellow hairs, and having three brown stripes : 

 breast also striped with tawny and brown : abdomen tawny, with 

 three brown stripes which are very faint on the under-side ; the seg- 

 ments successively decrease in length to the tip : legs tawny ; hips, 

 fore feet, and tips of the other feet piceous : wings colourless, brown 

 at the base and along the fore border, and having a broad band of 

 the same colour across the middle of the disk : several of the cells in 

 the brown part are almost colourless; veins and poisers piceous, 

 some of the former tawny where the wings are colourless. Length 

 of the body 3J lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



a. New York. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Chrysops canifrons. Ferrugineus, capite scutelloque fulvis, thorace 

 vittis tribus lividis, pectore cinereo-fulvo, abdomine fulvo fasciis 

 ferrugineis etpiceis, pedibus fulvis, tar sis ferrugineis, alis limpi- 

 dis marginibus anticis fasciisque abbreviatis fuscis. 



Head tawny, hoary behind, and having a tinge of that colour 

 on the crown where the eyelets are seated on a tubercle ; there 

 is another tubercle above the base of the feelers which is tawny, 

 and nearly as long as the chest ; first and second joints beset with 

 black bristles; first joint longer than the second ; third joint nearly 

 as long as the first and second, ferruginous at the base, piceous to- 

 wards the tip : eyes purple and green : palpi yellow ; lancets ferru- 

 ginous ; sucker piceous : chest ferruginous, with three livid stripes ; 

 scutcheon tawny : breast grayish tawny : abdomen tawny, paler be- 

 neath and at the base ; a broad ferruginous interrupted band across 

 each segment, with the exception of the two last, where the bands 

 are piceous : legs tawny ; hips with a hoary tinge ; feet ferrugi- 

 nous : wings brown along the fore border ; this colour descends to- 

 wards the hind border, first in an oblique line near the base, 

 secondly, in a broad band across the middle of the wing, and lastly, 

 between this band and the tip of the wing, where it is paler and of a 



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