DIPTERA. Da 
and ferruginous bristles on each side of the scutcheon: abdomen bright 
deep blue, tapering from the base to the tip, near twice the length of the 
chest, clothed with short black hairs, and having towards the tip and be- 
neath a few pale yellow hairs ; first and second segments thickly clothed 
above with pale yellow hairs: legs black, stout, thickly clothed with short 
black hairs ; tips of the feet clothed with tawny hairs ; foot-cushions tawny ; 
claws ferruginous at the base; first and second joints of hind-feet and tips 
of hind-shanks clothed with pale yellow hairs; hairs most thick on the 
hind-shanks and hind-feet ; four front-shanks slightly curved: tips of mid- 
dle shanks hooked ; wings gray, pitchy at the base, where a pitchy streak 
proceeds for some distance beneath the fore border; wing-ribs and veins 
black, the latter bordered with yellowish-brown ; poisers black. Length of 
the body 20 lines; of the wings 36 lines. 
West Australia. 
Genus MALLOPHORA, Macquart. 
MALLopHoRA XYLOCOPIIDES. 
Altra, antennis pedibusque nigris, pedibus nigro-hirtis, tibiis tarsisque 
posticis ferrugineo-ciliatis, tarsis posticis apice albo-fasciculatis, alis 
nigro-cyanets. 
Body deep black, thickly clothed with short black hairs: crown of the 
head adorned with a ferruginous covering ; fore part of the face thickly 
beset with black and ferruginous bristles: mouth mostly pitchy; palpi 
very thickly beset with black bristles, which have ferruginous tips: legs 
thickly clothed with black hairs; hind-shanks and hind-feet very deeply 
fringed, their hairs on the outer side mostly ferruginous ; a small tuft of 
white hairs at the tip of each hind-foot: wings Mackish, adorned with 
blue reflections, paler on the disks of the areolets and towards the tips, 
where the reflections are purple; wing-ribs, veins and poisers black. 
Length of the body 14 lines; of the wings 30 lines. 
Para. 
