LIST OF DIPTERA. 229 



Mydas vidualus, var. ? Westw. Lond. and Edin. Phil. Mag. 3rd 



series, vi. 281. April 1835. Arc. Ent. 52, 22, pi. 14,/. 2. 

 a. New Holland ? 



Div. III. 



Mydas clavigera, n. s. Niger, f route ferrugineo, scutelloque fulvo, 

 abdomine supra flavo sexmaculato, subtusflavo trifasciato, anten- 

 nis nigris,pedibus alisque fulvis. 



This species seems to be nearly allied to M. sordidus, West-wood., 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. London, v. pt. 4, 89, pi. 13, /. 3., but differs in 

 some respects from the description there given. Body black : head 

 piceous, clothed with yellow hairs, ferruginous in front : eyes black : 

 mouth tawny: feelers black, as long as the chest ; first joint ferru- 

 ginous ; second joint very long; third joint dilated: chest thinly 

 clothed with yellow hairs ; scutcheon tawny : abdomen piceous to- 

 wards the tip, where it is clothed with yellow hairs ; segments from 

 the first to the third with broad yellow bands, which are entire be- 

 neath, but interrupted on the back and on each side : legs tawny : 

 hind thighs ferruginous, yellow towards the base, armed beneath 

 with numerous black spines ; hind shanks also yellow towards the 

 base : wings tawny ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous ; poisers yel- 

 low, their knobs piceous above. Length of the body 9 — 10 lines ; 

 of the wings 15 — 16 lines. 



a. New Holland. From Mr. Lambert's collection. 



Mydas incipiens, n. s. Fulva, thorace nigro trivittato, an tennis ni- 

 gris, capite pedibusque ferrugineis , alls Jlavo-fuscis. 



Head and mouth ferruginous : eyes and feelers black : chest 

 tawny, with three broad black stripes : breast tawny : abdomen 

 wanting : legs ferruginous ; hind thighs armed with black spines : 

 wings yellowish brown, tawny along the fore borders ; wing-ribs and 

 veins piceous ; poisers brown. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the 

 wings 8 lines. 

 a. New Holland? Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Apiocera, Westwood. 



Apiocera moerens, Westw. Are. Ent. 56, pi. ] 4, f. 6. A. asilica, 

 var. ? Westw. Lond. and Edin. Phil. Mag. vi. 449, 6, June, 

 1835. A. fuscicollis, var. ? Westw. do. do. 2. 



a. New Holland. 



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