LIST OF D1PTERA. 209 



Hadkus lepidotus, Perty. Delect. Anim. Articulat. 183, pi. xxx./. 



9. Tabanus lepidotus, Wied. Auss. Zvjeif. i. 193, 123. 



Lepiselaga lepidota, Macq. Dipt. Exot. i. 1, 154, l 9 pl. 18, 

 /. 3. 

 a. Brazil. 



Diabasis, Macquart. 



Diabasis varius, n. s., mas. Niger, pilis niyris aureis fulvis albisque 

 varius, pedibus nigris, alls cinereis basi marginibusque anticis 

 fuscis. 



Body black, short and thick : head and mouth thickly clothed 

 with black hairs : eyes red : feelers black ; third joint slender, long, 

 curved, pointed, not angular : chest and breast thickly clothed with 

 black hairs ; the former having its hind part thickly clothed with 

 golden hairs, and there is a patch of hairs of the same colour at the 

 j base of each wing : abdomen clothed with tawny hairs, and having 

 » a patch of shining yellowish white hairs on each side of the hind 

 borders of two segments towards the tip, and a fringe of hairs of the 

 same colour on the hind border of every segment beneath : legs 

 black, clothed with black hairs : wings gray brown at the base, and 

 having a broad brown stripe along the fore border till near the tip, 

 where it is wider and paler, and descends into the disk of the wing ; 

 veins and poisers black. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wiogs 

 10 lines. 



. a. Chili. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



Gastroxides, Saunders. 



i Gastroxides ater, Saunders, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iii. 59, pi. v. 



/• 4. 

 I a. North Bengal. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



Acanthomera. Wiedemann. 



Acanthomera immanis, Wied. Auss. Zweif. ii. 623, 18. 



a. Brazil. From Mrs. Noel's collection. 



b. Brazil. From Mr. Mornay's collection. 



Acanthomera Heydenii, Wied. Auss. Zweif . i. 555, 26. 

 a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



Acanthomera picta, Wied. Dipt. Exot. i. 61, 1. Auss. Zweif. i. 

 108, 2. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 218, 1. Dipt. Exot. i. 1, 



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