DIPTERA. B87 
dle stripe slender and entire, the two on each side broad, irregular, united 
at each end: breast adorned with silvery lustre, clothed with white hairs : 
abdomen black, shining, narrower than the chest, and more than twice its 
length; @ broad, bright, golden band near the tip : legs black, shining ; 
hips tawny, adorned with silvery lustre, clothed with white hairs; thighs 
bright tawny at the base, clothed with very few white hairs; shanks and 
feet fringed with short black hairs, armed with black bristles; shanks 
bright tawny towards the base, this colour prevails most in the hind- 
shanks ; tips of the joints of the feet, especially of the fore-feet, ferruginous 
towards the base; claws black, tawny at the base; foot-cushions tawny : 
wings pale brown; disks of the areolets darker at the tips, and beneath 
two-thirds of the length of the fore border and from thence towards the 
base; wing-ribs pitchy; veins black, dark tawny at the base; poisers 
bright yellow. Length of the body 63 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 
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Genus DASYPOGON, Meigen. 
Dasypocon Carpo, Fem. 
Aler, capite antico argenteo spinis albis armato, pectore abdominisque seg- 
mentornm 2 et 3imarginibus posticis canis, antennis pedibus alisque 
nigris. 
Body black, dull: head clothed beneath with white hairs: face co- 
yered with silvery-white down; epistoma armed with about twelve white 
spines: eyes black; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those else- 
where: lip black, clothed towards the tip with short tawny hairs: palpi 
black, beset with black bristles}: feelers black, first and second joints beset 
with short black bristles ; third nearly linear, twice the length of the first 
and the second: breast hoary, partly clothed with white hairs: abdomen 
decreasing in breadth{from the base to the tip, about twice the length of 
the chest ; hind borders of the second and third segments hoary on each 
side ; fourth and fifth segments mostly red above; tip shining: legs black, 
armed with black spines ; foot-cushions tawny: wings blackish ; wing- 
ribs and veins black; poisers yellow. Length of the body 73 lines ; of the 
Wings 123 lines. Near allied to D. punctatus. 
Hunter's River. 
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