DIPTERA. 227 
Genus MILESIA, Latr. 
Mixesta Laconica, Fem. 
Nigra, thorace maculis et fasciis flavis vitlisque quinque cinereis ornato, 
abdomine rufo-fusco maculis flavis et fasciis cyaneo-fulvis albidisque 
ornato, pedibus piceis, alis limpidis ad costam fuscis. 
Black ; head mostly clothed with short yellow hairs and adorned with 
a whitish covering, which occupies the whole of the face excepting a black 
stripe along the middle: eyes bronzed; all the facets very small: mouth 
pitchy: feelers pitchy at the base: chest adorned with five indistinct gray 
stripes ; a whitish mark on each shoulder ; two obconical yellow spots on the 
back, behind them and in front of the wing-ribs there is an interrupted yellow 
band ; an entire yellow band in front of the scutcheon which is pitchy; a 
tuft of yellow hairs on each side of the latter band : abdomen obconical, 
thinly clothed with very short tawny hairs, longer than the chest, reddish 
brown, black at the base, where there are two oblique spots of bright yellow 
hairs; beyond these is an interrupted tawny band rounded on each side and 
adorned with blue lustre ; then follow two interrupted whitish bands clothed 
with bright short yellow hairs; hind borders of the segments tawny : legs 
pitchy, clothed with very short tawny hairs; foot-cushions and tips of the 
fore-shanks tawny ; claws tawny with black tips: wings colourless ; a brown 
stripe interrupted by more or less pale streaks along the whole length of the 
fore border ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black; poisers pale yellow. Length 
of the body 6% lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 
Brazil. 
DEINECHES, n. g. 
Milesia et Rhingia affinis: epistoma conicum: os capite multo lon- 
gior: tibia subcurvate ; femora postica crassa. 
Connects Milesia and Rhingia. Epistoma produced into a cone: 
mouth much longer than the head: shanks slightly curved ; hind-thighs 
thick: wing-veins like those of Rhingia, but the cross-veins along the hind 
border towards the tip of the wing form an almost uninterrupted line, and 
the cross-vein which bounds the inner side of the first posterior areolet is 
much curved and very oblique. 
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