214 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



ceous, their bristles black : chest thickly clothed with golden hairs : 

 breast gray, more thinly clothed with paler hairs : hind borders of 

 the abdominal segments most thickly fringed with bright yellowish 

 white hairs : legs tawny, long and slender ; feet piceous, tawny at 

 the base: wings colourless ; brands dark tawny, very narrow ; veins 

 piceous, tawny at the base ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 5 

 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. Trenton Falls. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Leptis thoracica, Fabr. Syst. Antl. 70, 4. Wied. Auss. Zvjeif. i. 

 222, 2. Chrysopita thoracica, Macq. Dipt. Exot. ii. 1, 32, 1, 

 pi. 3, bis f. 3. 



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



b. Delaware. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



c. New York. 



Leptis atrata, Meig. Dipt. ii. 99, 16. Fall. Dipt. Suec. Anthrac. 

 13, 8. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 526, 4. Ehagio atratus, Fabr. Sp. Ins. 

 ii. 421, 1 1. Ent. Syst. iv. 276, 21. Latr. Gen. Crust, iv. 288. 

 Meig. Klass. Zweif. i. 302, 11. R. tomentosus, Fabr. Ent. 

 Syst. iv. 275, 16. Meig. Klass. Zweif. i. 306, 1. Atherix 

 atratus, Fabr. Syst. Anil. 72, 1. A. aurata, Fabr. Syst. Antl. 

 73, 4. A. tomentosa, Fabr. Syst. Antl. 73, 5. Musca atrata, 

 Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. v. 2866, 323. Musca &c, Geoff. Ins. 

 ii. 534, 79. Leptis atrata, Fall. Dipt. Suec. Anthrac. 13, 8. 

 Chrysopila aurata, Macq. Dipt. Nord. 1. Hist. Nat. Dipt. 

 i. 429, 1. Zett. Dipt. Suec. i. 222, 1, Loew, Prog. 1840, 9. 

 Gim. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1847, 1, 197, 1. Blanch. 

 Hist. Nat. Anim. Art. 603. 



a. England. 



b. France. 



c. — ^ ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Leptis proxima, n. s., mas. Atra, sericata, antennis femoribusque 

 piceis, pedibusfulvis, alis limpidis. Fern. — Fusca, capite fulvo, 

 abdomine nigro. 



Male. — Body black, velvet-like, thickly clothed with black hairs : 

 eyes and eyelets red : feelers piceous, their tips and the mouth black : 

 abdomen thinly clothed with black and yellow hairs: legs dull 

 tawny; hips and thighs piceous: wings colourless; brands tawny, 

 narrow ; veins tawny, darker towards the tips ; poisers very dark 

 tawny, with piceous knobs. Fern. — Head dull tawny, clothed with 

 yellow hairs : feelers black : chest and breast dark brown, also 

 clothed with yellow hairs: abdomen attenuated at the tip, rather 

 more thickly clothed with yellow hairs than that of the male, espe- 





