DIPTERA. 375 
Genus ROPALOMERA, Macq. 
RopatomeRra TrBraris, Mas et Fem. 
Rufo-fusca ; caput testaceum, nigro varium; antenne ferruginee, apice 
nigra ; thorax albo quadrivitiatus ; abdomen nigrum, basi testaceum ; 
pedes nigri, femoribus basi fulvis, tibiis anterioribus piceis, tarsis 
anterioribus basi flavis ; alis cinereis, venis fusco marginatis. 
Reddish brown : head testaceous above, black with a hoary covering in 
front, white on each side, clothed behind and beneath with tawny hairs ; 
crown with a slight longitudinal furrow, black about the eyelets, with a fer- 
rugiuous stripe on each side; fovee not extending half the length to’the 
epistoma which is not prominent; face very convex between the fover and 
the epistoma: mouth pitchy, partly tawny; palpi tawny, clavate: feelers 
Serruginous ; third joint black above and towards the tip, conical, full twice 
the length of the second; fourth and fifth joints very short but distinct ; 
sixth black, slender, testaceous at the base, thinly feathered to the tip with 
long hairs: chest with four white stripes: breast with a white stripe on 
each side: abdomen black, with a hoary covering, testaceous at the base, not 
longer than the chest: legs black; hips tawny, with a white covering ; 
thighs very thick, tawny at the base; knees yellow ; shanks curved, pitchy ; 
hind-shanks deep black, widened ; anterior feet yellow towards the base: 
wings gray, clouded with brown along the veins ; veins black, ferruginous at 
the base: alule white: halteres tawny. Length of the body 44—5} lines ; 
of the wings 11—18 lines. 
RopaLoMERA VARIPEs, Mas. 
Rufa; caput flavum ; antenne lutee ; thorax piceo trivittatus ; abdomen 
nigrum ; pedes fulvi, femorum vittis tibiisque posterioribus ferrugi- 
neis ; ale cineree, margine antico fusco-nebuloso basi fulvo. 
Deep ved: head yellow, clothed behind and beneath with yellow hairs ; 
crown luteous, ferruginous about the hind border, with a slight longitudi- 
nal furrow; face with a slight protuberance between the fovee and the 
epistoma: mouth tawny, partly pitchy: palpi yellow, clavate: feelers lu- 
teous ; sixth joint black, yellow towards the base: chest with three pitchy 
