204 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
abdomen pitchy ; hind borders of the segments whitish : legs pitchy ; hips 
beneath, knees and fore-feet tawny : wings colourless; wing-ribs and yeins 
dark tawny; veins partly pitchy along the fore border; scales pale gray 
with tawny borders. Length of the body 14 line; of the wings 3 lines. 
East Indies. 
Fam. EMPID, Meigen. 
Genus EMPIS, Linn. 
Empis rimpria, Fem. 
Niger, cinerascens, antennis pedibusque nigris, his latissime ciliatis, alis 
limpidis basi subfuscis. 
Black, tinged with gray: head and chest thinly clothed with black 
hairs: eyes dark red: mouth pitchy: abdomen clothed with short black 
hairs: Zeys covered with iridescent down, very deeply fringed with black 
hairs: wings colourless, pale brown at the base ; wing-ribs, veins and 
poisers pitchy. Length of the body 1 line; of the wings 25 lines. 
Brazil. 
Genus HILARA, Meigen. 
Hivara citorea, Fallen. 
Van Diemen’s Land. 
Hinara cerra, Fem. 
Nigro-cinerea, thorace quadri-vittato, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, femo- 
ribus tibiis tarsisque apice nigris, alis subfuscis. 
Black, dull, tinged with gray which forms four stripes on the chest, 
clothed with short black hairs: eyes red: mouth pitchy, nearly as long as 
the chest: feelers black: legs tawny, beset with short black hairs and 
bristles ; tips of thighs and of shanks black ; feet black, tawny at the base : 
wings pale brown, palest in the disks of the areolets in the middle part; 
wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; poisers tawny. Length 
of the body 24 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 
Van Diemen’s Land. 
