364 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
AnTHOMYIA cERTA, Foem. 
Cyaneo-nigra, eneo tincta ; antenne picee ; ale limpide. 
Bluish-black, with a slight brassy tinge: frontalia deep black ; facialia 
without bristles ; epistoma very prominent: eyes bare: mouth and palpi 
black: feelers pitchy ; third joint linear, almost truncated at the tip, reach- 
ing the epistoma, more than four times the length of the second; sixth 
very slender, feathered with rather long hairs, tawny at the base, very much 
longer than the third: chest bristly: abdomen oval, a little broader but 
not longer than the chest: legs black: wings colourless; veins black, yel- 
low at the base; lower cross-vein almost straight: alule white: halteres 
tawny, with pitchy knobs. Length of the body 2} lines; of the wings 5 
lines. 
Brazil. 
ANTHOMYIA DESPECTA, Fem. 
Nigra, cinereo-tomentosa ; pectus canum; abdominis segmenta fusco tri- 
maculata; pedes fulvi, femoribus obscurioribus, tarsis nigris; ale 
subcineree, ad costam fusce. 
Head wanting: chest and abdomen black, with a cinereous covering : 
chest striped ? breast hoary: abdomen obconical, a little longer than the 
chest, with three brown spots on each segment: legs tawny ; thighs brownish 
about the middle ; feet black ; wings slightly gray, with a brown tinge be- 
neath the fore border; veins black, tawny towards the base ; lower cross- 
vein almost straight: alule whitish: halteres yellow. Length of the body 
2 lines ; of the wings 4 lines. 
Brazil. 
AnTHoMYIA mMAuRA, Fem. 
Nigra; caput albido-tomentosum ; abdomen apice subtusque cinereum ; 
pedes picei ; ale pallide fuscescentes. 
Black, slightly shining: head with a slight whitish covering ; antenna- 
ria dull black; epistoma not prominent: mouth, palpi and feelers black; 
third joint of the feelers much longer than the second; sixth slender, stout 
