Pe SS 
DIPTERA. 409 
Genus EPHYDRA, Fallen. 
Epuypnra princuts, Fem. 
Nigra ; caput nigro-viride, albo-tomentosa ; antenne pice, arista pubes- 
cente ; abdomen nigro-viride ; tibie ferruginee ; ale fusce, maculis 
nonnullis apud venas transversas subhyalinis. 
Black, shining: head greenish black and covered with white down in 
front: feelers pitchy; third joint short-conical, but little longer than the 
second ; sixth downy, bare towards the tip: abdomen dark green, obco- 
nical, hardly longer than the chest: legs black ; knees and shanks ferrugi- 
nous: wings brown; veins black; ecross-veins clouded with dark brown, 
adjoining which there are some almost colourless marks; lower cross-vein 
straight, oblique; fifth vein not reaching the border, Length of the body 
1} line; of the wings 4 lines. * 
United States. 
EpHypDRA AUSTRALIS, Fom. 
Rufo-fusca ; caput cervinum ; antenne nigre; thorax vittis duabus pec- 
toreque canis ; abdominis segmenta marginibus posticis canis ; pedes 
picet ; ale fusca, magulis 9 limpidis. 
Reddish brown; head fawn-colour in front and beneath: feelers black : 
third joint conical, full twice the length of the second ; sixth bare, stout 
at the base, more than twice the length of the third: chest with two hoary 
stripes: breast hoary: abdomen obconical, very little longer than the chest, 
with a hoary band along the hind border of each segment : legs pitchy : 
wings brown, with nine colourless spots; one beneath the fore border; one 
large, beneath the second vein and partly beneath the third; four be- 
neath the third; three beneath the fourth, two of them beneath the lower 
cross-vein; veins black: halteres yellow. Length of the body 1} line; of 
the wings 3 lines. 
Van Dieman’s Land. 
