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DIPTERA. 397 
Genus ULIDIA, Meigen. 
Uxipia pivercens, Mas. 
Cyanea ; caput piceum; facie viridi ; antenne ferruginee, basi fulve ; 
abdomen apice viridescens ; pedes purpurei, tarsis flavis; ale 
hyaline. 
Dark blue: head pitchy, ferruginous along the eyes in front; face 
green; epistoma rather prominent: mouth black: feelers tawny; third 
joint ferruginous, conical, more than twice the length of the second; sixth 
black, slender, very minutely pubescent, tawny at the base, more than 
twice the length of the third: breast tinged with purple: abdomen 
greenish towards the tip, not longer than the chest: legs purple; feet pale 
yellow ; tips of fore-feet black: wings colourless; veins tawny; fifth vein 
converging towards the fourth and almost united to it at the tip; halteres 
yellow. Length of the body 1% line; of the wings 3 lines. 
East Indies. 
Genus SCIOMYZA, Fallen. 
ScIoMYZA SQUALIDA. 
Fulva, piceo alboque vittata ; antenne nigra 3 femora apice nigra ; tibia 
nigro bifasciate ; tarsi nigri, basi fulvi ; ale sublimpide. 
Tawny: crown flat, ferruginous, witha black stripe and a white stripe 
on each side: feelers black ; sixth joint pubescent: chest with a pitchy 
stripe between two whitish stripes ; a short indistinct whitish stripe on each 
side of the hinder part; sides and breast whitish: abdomen obconical, a 
little shorter than the chest: thighs with black tips; shanks with two black 
bands; feet black, tawny towards the base: wings almost colourless; veins 
tawny, black towards the tips; lower cross-vein straight, slightly oblique : 
halteres yellow. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 6 lines. 
Australia. 
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