406 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
joint slightly conical, darker and much deeper than the second, and about 
thrice its length; sixth black, slender, tawny towards the base, feathered 
with long hairs, more than twice the length of the third: abdomen obco- 
nical, testaceous, ferruginous beneath, shorter and a little broader than the 
chest: legs ferruginous ; fore-thighs and fore-shanks pitchy; fore-thighs 
armed beneath with long spines: wings pale gray, with a slight tawny 
tinge along the fore border; veins tawny; first vein brown towards the tip; 
lower cross-vein hardly curved inwards towards the base: halteres tawny, 
pitchy at the base. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 
Amazon River. 
Hetomyza maura, Mas. 
Nigra; caput fulouum ; antenne arista via plumosa ; pedes picet, genubus 
tarsisque fulvis, tarsis anticis piceis basi fulvis ; ale fulve. — 
Black: head tawny; epistoma pitchy, not prominent: mouth pitchy: 
feelers tawny ; third joint almost conical, more than twice the length of the 
second ; sixth pitchy, very slender, feathered with short hairs, nearly thrice 
the length of the third: abdomen obconical, very little longer than the 
chest: legs pitechy; knees and feet tawny ; fore-feet pitchy, tawny at the 
base: wings tawny ; cross-veins straight, upright: halteres pitchy, yellow 
at the base. Length of the body 2 lines; of the wings 5 lines. 
East Indies, 
Genus NOTIPHILA, Fallen. 
Noripuita sorta, Mas et Fem. 
Nigra, cervino-tomentosa; antenne fulve; pectus canum; abdomen 
cinereo-cervinum, e maculis trigonis fuscis quadrivittatum ; pedes 
Julvi, femoribus nigris, tibiis nigro fasciatis ; ale subcinerea, venis 
fulvo marginatis. 
Black, with a brownish fawn-colour covering : face witha slight hoary 
tinge: mouth tawny: feelers tawny; third joint almost conical, full twice 
the length of the second; sixth ‘black, feathered with long hairs: breast 
hoary: abdomen cinereous fawn-colour, obconical, a little longer than the 
chest, with four rows of triangular brown spots: legs tawny, thighs black; 
shanks with very broad black bands: wings slightly gray, with a tawny 
