DIPTERA. 
facialia white: mouth and palpi black; mouth clothed towards the tip 
with tawny hairs: feelers deep black; third joint almost linear, slightly 
concave above, rounded at the tip, much longer than the second ; sixth 
pubescent for half the length from the base: scutcheon prominent: abdo- 
men pitchy : legs pitchy ; shanks dark ferruginous ; fore-thighs armed with a 
tooth beneath near the tip which is ferruginous; fore-shanks slightly 
curved, slender at the base: wings slightly gray ; veins black, tawny at the 
base; lower cross-vein slightly curved inward in the middle part> alule 
slightly lurid: halteres pitchy. Length of the body 33 lines; of the wings 
7 lines. 
Cape. 
ANTHOMYIA TRANSLATA, Mas. 
Nigro-enea; caput albo-tomentosum; pectus et abdomen cano-tomentosa, 
hoc apice eneum nitens ; tibia ferruginee ; ale cinerea, venis trans- 
versis fusco-nebulosis. 
Brassy-black, beset with bristles: head with a white covering; frontalia 
deep black, widening much towards the feelers ; facialia without bristles ; 
epistoma not prominent: eyes hairy: mouth and palpi black: feelers 
black ; third joint linear, rounded at the tip, not reaching the epistoma, a 
little more than twice the length of the second; sixth slender, pubescent, 
more than twice the length of the third: breast and abdomen with a hoary 
covering ; abdomen obconical, almost as long as the chest, brassy and 
shining at the tip: legs black ; shanks ferruginous, darker towards the tips 
wings gray ; veins black, tawny towards the base; cross-vweins clouded with 
brown ; lower cross-vein almost straight: alule dingy white with yellow 
borders: halteres yellow. Length of the body 35 lines; of the wings 
7 lines. 
New South Wales. 
AnrHomy1a apprta, Foom. 
Nigra, cinereo-tomentosa ; caput canum; thorax nigro quadrivittatus ; 
abdominis segmenta nigro quadrimaculata; tibie ferruginee ; ale 
cinerea, venis transversis fumosis. 
Body black, with a cinereous covering: head with a hoary covering : 
frontalia brown, broad; facialia without bristles; epistoma not prominent : 
