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the chest, shining beneath, pitchy here and there and clothed with short 
tawny hairs above: /eys pale ferruginous, clothed with tawny hairs ; tro- 
chanters and thighs mostly black ; a black band on each shank : wings gray ; 
veins clouded with brown; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black; the stump of a 
slightly curved vein proceeding from the upper side of the second submar- 
ginal areolet; poisers tawny. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 
12 lines. 
New South Wales. 
Genus XYLOTA, Meigen. 
Xyxora #Quaris, Mas. 
Ainea, capite scutelloque fulvis, abdomine nigro fasctis sea fulvis ornato, 
segmentorum marginibus posticis cyaneis, antennis nigris, pedibus ful- 
vis, alis limpidis. 
Head pale buff, clothed with pale yellow hairs; crown clothed with 
black hairs; a pitchy stripe along the face, which Has a bare shining ferru- 
ginous knob near the epistoma: mouth pitchy: feelers black; third joint 
pitchy at the base: eyes bronzed; facets larger on the crown than else- 
where: chest and breast hoary, thickly clothed with pale yellow hairs ; chest 
with a brassy tinge; scutcheon tawny, clothed with black hairs: abdomen 
black, obconical, tinged with blue on the hind borders of the segments, much 
longer than the chest, clothed with black hairs, adorned with siw bands ; 
first, second, fourth and sixth bands tawny, fourth indistinet, third and 
fifth whitish : legs tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs; thighs towards 
the base darker and clothed with darker hairs; claws and foot-cushions 
tawny; tips of the claws black ; hind-legs dark tawny or pitchy, their thighs, 
shanks, and the first joints of the feet thickly fringed with black hairs : wings 
colourless; wing-ribs, veins, and poisers tawny. Length of the body 6 
lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 
East Indies. 
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