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DIPTERA. 99 
yellow bristles: eyes bronze-black ; fore part nearly flat, its facets a little 
larger than those elsewhere: sucker black, clothed at the tip with short 
yellow hairs ; palpi black, beset with a few black hairs: feelers ferruginous ; 
first and second joints beset with short tawny bristles: chest ferruginous, 
clothed with short yellow hairs, adorned with three black stripes, of which 
the side pair are short and interrupted: abdomen tapering from the base 
to the tip, clothed with short yellow hairs, full thrice the length of the 
chest, ferruginous and shining towards the tip; legs tawny, clothed with 
short yellow hairs, armed with a few yellow spines ; claws black, tawny at 
the base ; fore-shanks unarmed: wings bright tawny, colourless along the 
hind border towards the base; wing-1ibs, veins and poisers ferruginous. 
Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 
Cape. 
Genus CYRTOPOGON, Loew. 
Cyrropocon LaeHrRipEs, Plate 3, fig. 7. 
Mas. Niger fulvo hirtus, thorace nigro hirto, antennis pedibusque nigris, 
alis limpidis ad costam fulvis apice fuscis. 
Head very thickly clothed with tawny hairs, most thickly clothed be- 
neath with white hairs: face mostly clothed with pale tawny hairs ; eyes 
black, fore part flat, its facets very large: lip black, clothed at the tip with 
tawny hairs; tongue ferruginous; palpi black, clothed with long black 
hairs: feelers black; third joint very slender, very much longer than the 
second ; fourth and fifth short: chest tinged with brown, thickly clothed 
with black hairs, which on the fore part give place to pale tawny hairs: 
abdomen obconical, shining, a little longer than the chest, clothed with 
tawny hairs, and at the tip with a few black hairs: legs black, adorned 
with three fringes, one of black hairs, another of tawny, and the third of 
white hairs, the black hairs are the shortest and the white hairs most thick : 
there are also some ferruginous hairs and bristles ; shanks and feet thickly 
covered beneath with ferruginous down; foot-cushions tawny: wings co- 
lourless ; fore border tinged with tawny towards the base, and with brown 
towards the tip ; wing-ribs and veins black ; veins tawny towards the base ; 
poisers tawny. Length of the body 5} lines; of the wings 11 lines. 
East India. 
