204 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



the brown from the base to the middle of the wing is confined to 

 the fore border, and the brown band hardly attains the hind border. 



Var. y. With some nearly colourless spaces in the brown 

 band. 



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



Chrysops divisus, n. s. Piceus, capite fulvo vario, pedibus nigris, 

 posterioribus basi lividis, alls fuscis apice limpidis. - 



Body dark piceous : head clothed with black hairs, bright tawny 

 around the eyes and about the mouth : eyes green and purple*: 

 palpi and sucker piceous ; lancets ferruginous : feelers black : chest 

 and abdomen clothed with dark tawny hairs : legs black, clothed 

 with dark hairs ; four hinder feet livid towards the base ; wings 

 dark brown, paler towards the hind border, and quite colourless at 

 the tips ; veins piceous in the coloured, yellow in the colourless parts 

 of the wings : poisers dark piceous. Length of the body 3 lines ; 

 of the wings 6 lines. 



a. Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Chrysops plangens, Wied. Auss. Ziveif. i. 210, 22. 

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



Chrysops fuliginosus, Wied. Dipt. Exot. i. 109, 11. Auss. Zweif. 

 i. 210, 23. 



a. Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



b. — ? Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Chrysops subcanus, n. s., fern. Niger, capite pectoreque canis tho~ 

 race cinereo quadrivittato, abdomine cinereo subtus cano, pedibus 

 alisque nigris. 



Head hoary, dark brown on the crown, clothed with long white 

 hairs beneath : eyes purplish green : palpi dark ferruginous : lan- 

 cets tawny : feelers black, a little shorter than the head ; first and 

 second joints hairy, rather hoary ; third joint slightly curved: chest 

 black, with four broad but indistinct gray stripes that occupy nearly 

 the whole of the back : breast hoary : abdomen gray above, hoary 

 beneath, fringed slightly on each side, but more thickly on the hind 

 borders of the segments with yellowish white hairs : legs black ; 

 thighs clothed with short hoary down ; wings and their veins black ; 

 poisers piceous. Length of the body 4 J lines ; of the wings 8 

 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



