202 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



very slightly curved, tapering to the tip, tawny at the base : chest 

 dark brown, with four hoary stripes ; sides and breast also hoary : 

 abdomen very dark brown, with a large irregular white spot on each 

 side of the base, and a conical spot of the same colour on the hind 

 border of the third, of the fourtb, and of the fifth segments ; hind 

 borders of the segments very pale tawny, and fringed with pale yel- 

 low hairs ; under-side of abdomen brown with a gray bloom, and 

 having a tawny spot on each side of the second and of the 

 third segments : legs ferruginous ; hips, hind thighs, feet, and tips 

 of thighs, and of shanks piceous ; four hinder feet ferruginous 

 at the base : wings colourless ; the base, the fore border, and a 

 broad band across the disk are brown : the band does not reach the 

 hind border, but is continued obliquely, and of a paler colour 

 towards the base of the wing ; veins black, tawny towards the base 

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

 body 4 — 4i lines ; of the wings Si — 9 lines. 

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



Chrysops sepulchralis, Fair, Syst. Anil. 1 13, 12. Fall. Dipt. 



Suec. 11, 4. Meig. Dipt. ii. 74, 10. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 519, 5, 



Kirby, North Amer. Zool. Ins. 314, 1. Tabanus sepulchralis. 



Fair. Ent. Syst. iv. 374, 48. 

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



G. Barnston, Esq. 



Chrysops niger ? Macq. Dipt. Exot. i. 161, 10. Niger, capite cine- 

 reo, thorace cinereo quadrivittato , peetore cano, abdomine macu- 

 lisfasciisque canis maculisque duabus basi fulvis, pedibus piceis, 

 tarsis posterioribus basi ferrugineis, alis subcinereis fusco bifas- 

 ciatis. 



Head gray, with the two usual piceous shining spots, pale yellow 

 between the feelers and the mouth, where there are two obclavate 

 shining brown spots that join together at the base of the mouth : 

 palpi dark gray ; lancets ferruginous ; sucker piceous : eyes green 

 and purple : feelers black, much shorter than the chest ; first 

 and second joints hairy ; first tawny, piceous at the tip ; second 

 a little shorter than the first ; third joint very slightly curved, taper- 

 ing from near the base to the tip, longer than the first and the se- 

 cond : chest black, with four very indistinct gray stripes, its sides 

 fringed with yellow hairs : breast hoary, also clothed, but more 

 thinly, with yellow hairs: abdomen black, with a tawny spot 

 on each side at the base, and a row of hoary conical spots along the 

 middle ; these spots rest on the hind borders of the segments, and 

 are most distinct on the second, third, and fourth ; hind borders of 

 the segments hoary above, dull pale tawny beneath : legs piceous ; 



