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the tips of the latter, yellowish white : wings slightly gray ; tips, 

 fore borders and cross-veins clouded with brown ; veins dark tawny, 

 brown towards the tips ; poisers bright tawny. Yar. £.— Middle 

 shanks yellowish white, with ferruginous tips. Fern.— Head dark 

 tawny, with a paler line on each side between the eyes, clothed on 

 the crown with black hairs : chest brown, with five hoary stripes ; 

 the middle stripe is short, and hardly extends beyond the middle of 

 the disk ; the outer stripes are irregular, and are connected by two 

 short oblique lines with the inner pair. Length of the body 4 lines ; 

 of the wings 9 lines. 



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



Rhagio lineola, Fair. Em. Syst. iv. 275, 17. Meig. Klass. Zweif. 



i. 307, m. Sylvicola monachus, Harris, Ex. 102, pi. 31, /. 9. 



Atherix lineola, Fair. Syst. Anil. 74, 6. Rhagio albifrons, 



Meig. Klass. Zweif. i. 300, 6. Leptis lineola, Fall. Dipt. Suec. 



Anthrac. 12, 6. Meig. Dipt. ii. 94, 9. Mac. Hist. Nat. Dipt. 



i. 427, 8. Ratz. Forst. Ins. iii. 155. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 



526, 3. ™ 



a. England. 



Rhagio inutilis, n. s., mas. et fern. Fulvus, thorace fusco vittis 



tribus pallidis, abdominis segmentis maculis dorsalibus vittisqne 



utrinque ventralibus piceis, fern, abdominis dorso immaculato, 



antennis pedibusque fulvis, alis fulvo subcinereis. 



Male.— Body tawny : eyes bronze colour : feelers and mouth 



tawny : chest pale dull brown, with three pale stripes : breast hoary : 



abdomen piceous at the tip, having a small piceous spot on the back 



of each segment, and a piceous stripe on each side beneath : legs 



tawny; feet ferruginous : wings slightly gray, with a tawny tinge 



along the fore borders ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous ; brands 



none ; poisers tawny. Fern.— Chest paler than that of the male : 



abdomen without spots on the back. Length of the body 3 lines ; 



of the wings 6 lines. 



a. England. From Mr. Walker's collection. 



Leptis, Fabricius. 



Leptis ornata (?), Say, Journ. Acad. Phil. 1822, 34, 1. Amer. Ent. 

 pi. 13. Wied. Auss. Zweif. i. 221, 1. Nigra, aureo-pilosa, 

 pectore cinereo, abdomine ciliis flavo-albis fasciato, antennis 

 tarsisque piceis, pedibus fulvis, alis limpidis, 



Body black, rather long and slender : head thickly clothed be- 

 neath with pale yellow hairs : mouth black : eyes red : feelers pi- 



