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along the fore border is interrupted near its tip by a brown spot ; 

 cross-veins slightly clouded with brown ; tips of wings also brown, 

 which colour passes into gray towards the hind borders ; veins taw- 

 ny, piceous towards the tips ; poisers pale tawny. Length of the 

 body 3 lines; of the wings 6 lines. 



a. Honduras. From Mr. Miller's collection. 



Chrvsops inornatus, n. s. Fulvus, thorace fusco univittato, pectore 

 fusco, abdomine fusco bivittato, pedibus fuscis, propedibus piceis, 

 alis cinereis marginibus anticis fuscis. 



Head tawny, with two black shining tubercles above, and a 

 larger dark piceous tubercle between the feelers and the mouth : 

 eyes coppery : palpi and mouth piceous : feelers tawny ; first and 

 second joints beset with short bristles; second joint not half the 

 length of the first ; third joint wanting : chest tawny, with a broad 

 pale brown stripe on its disk : breast brown and shining : abdomen 

 tawny : its back with two brown lines which occupy almost the 

 whole length and nearly join each other at the tip ; legs brown ; 

 knees and base of feet tawny ; fore legs piceous : wings gray, with 

 a brown line along the fore border ; this stripe is darker at two- 

 thirds of the length of the wing where there is a small brand, 

 it then becomes narrower and afterwards wider and paler, and occu- 

 pies the whole of the tip of the wing ; veins piceous, tawny towards 

 the base of the wing ; poisers tawny, with ferruginous knobs. 

 Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



a. Brazil. 



Chrysops costatus, Fabr. Syst. Anil. 112, 8. Wied. Dipt. Exot. i. 



104, 4. Auss. Ziveif. i. 198, 5. 

 a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



Chrysops furcatus, n. s. Niger, capiteflavo, thorace vittis quatuor 

 lateribusque fulvis, pectore fulvo bivittato, abdomine fiavo macu- 

 lis nigris fere trivittato, pedibus fulvis piceo variis, propedibus 

 piceis, alls subcinereis basi marginibus anticis fascidque fuscis. 



Head yellow, slightly hoary behind, with two piceous tubercles 

 above, ferruginous and shining in front between the feelers and the 

 mouth, where there are also two piceous shining spots on each side : 

 palpi tawny : sucker piceous : lancets ferruginous : feelers much 

 shorter than the chest; first and second joints hairy; first joint fer- 

 ruginous, black at the tip above ; second joint black, ferruginous at 

 the base below, a little shorter than the first : third joint black, 

 gray at the base, very slightly curved, gradually tapering to the tip, 



