DIPTERA. 205 
Himara conrirmata, Mas. 
Nigra, pedibus piceis, alis sublimpidis. 
Black, thinly clothed with black hairs and bristles: eyes pitchy : 
sucker black, much shorter than the chest: feelers black: legs pitchy : 
wings nearly colourless ; cross-veins clouded with brown ; wing-ribs pitehy ; 
veins black, pitchy at the base; poisers yellow. Length of the body 1} 
line; of the wings 4 lines. 
Van Diemen’s Land. 
Fam. HYBOTINA, Meigen. 
Genus HYBOS, Fabr. 
Hysos pimip1atus, Mas et Fem. 
Nigro-eneus, antennis nigris, tibiis piceis, tarsis fulvis, alis nigro-fuscis 
apice limpidis. 
Head black, clothed with very few black hairs: eyes dark red: mouth 
pitchy : feelers black: chest brassy black, shining, clothed with brown hairs : 
abdomen coppery: legs shining ; thighs brassy black; knees ferruginous ; 
shanks pitchy ; feet tawny: wings dark brown and widened on the fore 
border for a little more than half the length from the base, colourless thence 
to the tips; wing-ribs and veins black; poisers pitchy. Length of the 
body 14 line; of the wings 3} lines. 
Brazil. 
Hysos 1ntTEGER, Mas. 
Nigro-eneus, thoraci vittis duabus fuscis, tibiis piceis, tibits intermediis 
tarsisque fulvis, alis nigro-fuscis apice fuscis. 
Black: eyes dark red: mouth pitchy: feelers black: chest slightly 
chalybeous, clothed with brown hairs, adorned with two indistinct brown 
stripes : abdomen coppery, fringed with black hairs on each side towards the 
base: legs beset with black hairs and bristles; thighs coppery; shanks 
pitchy ; knees, feet and middle-shanks tawny : wings brown, blackish brown 
with a widened fore border for more than half the lengih from the base ; 
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