£> iptera. 
•J MUSCA S P L E N D I D A. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Mouth with a foft exferted, flefhy probofcis, and two equal lips: fuckers furnilhed with bridles: palpi 
two, very thort, or fometimes none : antennae generally fhort. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Braffy black : thorax behind, and fcutel green : abdomen fpotted with blue and varioufly coloured: wings 
at the bafe fufcous. 
Musca Splendida : nigro-snea, thorace poffice fcutelloque viridibus, abdomine raaculis caeruleis verfi- 
> coloribus, alis 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 cosruleo-maculato, abdomine pundtis duobus maculaque finuata cine- 
reis, alis antice ferrugineis. 
From the fame cabinet as the preceding, as are alfo the two following new fpecies of Auftralafian 
Tabani. 
■' TABANUS GUTTATUS. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Mouth with a ftraight exferted membranaceous probofcis, terminated by two equal lips : fucker projedt- 
ing, exferted, and fituated in a groove on the back of the probolcis, with a tingle valved llieath, and 
five bridles : palpi two, equal, clavate, and ending in a point: antennae lhoit, and approximate, cylin¬ 
drical, with an elevated tooth at the bafe. 
