D I PTE R A. 
MUSCA SPLENDID A. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Moutli with a foft exferted^ flelhy probofcis, and two equal lips : fuckers furnithed with brlflles : palpi 
two, very thort, or fometimes none : antennae generally fhort. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Braffy black : thorax behind, and fcutel green : abdomen Ipotted with blue and varioufly coloured : wings 
at the bafe fufcous. 
Musga Splendida: nigro-aenea, thorace poftice fcutelloque viridibus, abdomine maculis caeruleis verfi- 
coloribus, alls bafi fufcis. 
The drawing of this new fpecies is taken from a fpecimen in the cabinet of A. M'Leay, Efq. who re- 
ceived it from New South Wales. 
MUSCA SINUATA. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Black, thorax fpotted with blue, abdomen with two dots, and a finuous cinereous fpot: anterior part of the 
wings ferruginous. 
Musca Sinuata: nigra, thorace coeruleo-maculato, abdomine punttis duobus maculaque fmuata cine- 
reis, alis antice ferrugineis. 
From the fame cabinet as the preceding, as are alfo the two following new fpecies of Auftralalian 
Tabani. 
TAB ANUS GUTTATUS. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Mouth with a ftraight exferted membranaceous probofcis, terminated by two equal lips : fucker projedt- 
ing, exferted, and lituated in a groove on the back of the probofcis, with a Angle valved fheath, and 
five briflles : palpi two, equal, clavate, and ending in a point ; antennae fliort, and approximate, cylin- 
drical, with an elevated tootli at the bafe. 
