tibiae with black stripes; wings cinereous,
dark-brown about the costa, veinlet which bisects the subapical areolet
incomplete, as it is also in the following species; halteres tawny.
Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 12 lines.

67. MICRODON APICALIS, n. s. _Mas et Foem._ Niger, aureo-pubescens,
thorace abdomineque fasciatis, pedibus halteribusque fulvis, alis
nigro-fuscis postice obscure cinereis.

_Male and Female._ Black, with gilded tomentum, which forms two bands on
the thorax, and one on each side of the pectus; abdomen with three
gilded tomentose bands, the third subapical, first segment ferruginous
beneath; legs tawny, femora at the base and coxae black; wings
blackish-brown, dark cinereous hindward; halteres tawny. Length of the
body 5-6 lines; of the wings 10-12 lines.

Gen. GRAPTOMYZA, _Wied._

68. GRAPTOMYZA TIBIALIS, n. s. _Mas._ Testacea, vertice pectorisque
fasciis duabus piceis, antennis supra nigris, abdominis lateribus
fasciis duabus subtrigonis apiceque nigris, alis cinereis.

_Male._ Testaceous. Vertex and mouth piceous; epistoma with a piceous
line on each side; third joint of the antennae black above; abdomen black
along each side and at the tip, and with two black bands which are
angular in front; wings cinereous. Length of the body 3-1/2 lines; of
the wings 6 lines.

Gen. ERISTALIS, _Latr._

69. Eristalis splendens, _Leguillon, Voy. aut. du Monde_; _Macq. Dipt.
Exot._ 11. 2. 49. 28.

Inhabits also Solomon's Islands.

70. ERISTALIS RESOLUTUS, n. s. _Mas et Foem._ Niger, capite antice albo,
thorace vittis duabus fasciaque pectorisque disco cinereis, scutello
fulvo, abdomine fasciis interruptis aeneo-viridibus, tibiis basi
fulvescentibus, alis fuscis (mas) aut obscure fuscis (foem.) basi
cinereis, halteribus testaceis.

_Male and Female._ Black. Head shining, with white tomentum beneath and
on each side of the face; third joint of the antennae piceous, arista
simple; thorax with two cinereous stripes and with one cinereous band,
somewhat chalybeous towards the scutellum, which is tawny; the band
continued on each side of the pectus, whose disk is cinereous; abdomen
with an interrupted aeneous-green band on the second segment, third and
fourth segments aeneous-green, each with three large black spots; tibia
somewhat tawny towards the base; wings brown (male) or dark brown
(female), cinereous towards the base; halteres testaceous. Length of the
body 6 lines; of the wings 10 lines.