DIPTERA; : 449 
latter with black tips. Wings lurid, with two subcostal blackish spots ; 
veins black, tawny at the base. Hialteres testaceous, with brown knobs. 
Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 
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CTENOPHORA FUMIPLENA, Fom. 
Atra ; palpi nigro-picei ; abdomen luteo bifasciatum ; pedes nigri, 
tibiis albido cinetis ; ale nigricantes, strigis nonnullis pallidis ma- 
culisque quatuor albis. 
Structure of C. ardens. Deep black. Palpi piceous-black. Abdo- 
men with two luteous bands; one near the base; the other a little 
beyond, much narrower than the first. Legs black; tibie with a whitish 
band near the base. Wings blackish, with some pale streaks, and with 
four white spots, three of which form a band, and the fourth is more 
towards the base of the wing, and very near the hind border. Length of 
the body 8 lines; of the wings 14 lines. 
China. 
Fam. RHYPHID, Haliday. 
Genus RHYPHUS, Lair. 
RuYPHUS BREVIS. 
Fulva ; caput postice albido-testaceum ; antenne fusce, basi fulve ; 
thoraw fusco trivittatus ; metathorax cinereus ; ale subcineree, fas- 
etis nonnullis interruptis fuscis, venis stigmateque nigris. 
Tawny. Head behind whitish testaceous. Antenne brown, tawny 
at the base. Thorax with three broad brown stripes, Metathorax cine- 
reous. Abdomen testaceous beneath. Wings very slightly grayish, with 
several interrupted and irregular brown bands ; stigma and veins black, 
the latter tawny at the base. Length of the body 2—3 lines; of the 
wings 6—8 lines, 
Van Dieman’s Land. 
