DIPTERA. 365 
at the base, very minutely pubescent: abdomen obconical, cinereous at the 
tip and beneath, a little broader but not louger than the chest: legs pitchy : 
wings very slightly tinged with pale brown ; veins black, tawny at the base; 
lower cross-vein hardly inclined inward: alule dingy white with tawny 
borders: halteres tawny, with pitchy knobs. Length of the body 3 lines ; 
of the wings 7 lines. 
Cape. 
AntrHomy1a Ai'rniops, Fem. 
Nigra; caput antice fulvum, argenteo maculatum ; antennae picea ; ale 
sublimpide. 
Black, shining: head tawny in front; frontalia deep black, broad, 
linear; a silvery white triangular spot above the base of the feelers ; facia- 
lia without bristles; epistoma not prominent: eyes bare: mouth and palpi 
black: feelers pitchy, short; third joint nearly round, hardly longer than 
the second ; sixth slender, minutely pubescent, more than four times the 
length of the third: legs black ; fore-knees tawny: wings almost colour- 
less; veins black, yellow at the base; lower cross-vein very slightly bent 
outward, rather remote from the border: alule whitish, small: halteres 
tawny. Length of the body 14 line; of the wings 3} lines. 
Brazil. 
ANTHOMYIA TENUIOR, Fem. 
Nigra, cinereo-tomentosa; caput album; palpi flavi; antenne articulo 
30 basi fulvo ; thorax fusco trivittatus ; abdomen basi subtusque fla- 
vum, segmentis fusco trimaculatis ; pedes flavi, tarsis nigris; ale 
subcineree. 
Black, with a cinereous covering : head white; crown and frontalia ci- 
nereous, the latter whitish in front; facialia without bristles; epistoma not 
prominent: eyes bare: mouth black; palpi yellow: feelers black; third 
Joint linear, rounded at the tip, tawny at the base, nearly reaching the epi- 
stoma, a little more than twice the length of the second; sixth slender, 
pubescent, much more than twice the length of the third ; chest with three 
brown stripes ; breast hoary: abdomen oval, a little longer than the chest, 
yellow at the base and beneath, with three brown spots on each segment ; legs 
3B 
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