Male. Piceous; front facets of the eyes large; proboscis and palpi black; mystax with four bristles; pectus and sides of the thorax whitish; abdomen beneath pale-cinereous, with black shining spots along each side; legs tawny; trochanters and knees black; tarsi piceous; wings brownish, cinereous along the hind border, and with cinereous streaks in the disks of the areolets; halteres whitish. Female. Abdomen and halteres tawny; wings cinereous. Length of the body 4-5 lines; of the wings 10-12 lines.
Subfam. Laphrites, Walk.
Gen. Laphria. Fabr.
41. Laphria concludens, n. s. Fœm. Aurata, capite pilis flavis, antennis flavis articulo 3° rufescente fusiformi, thorace vittis tribus nigris, abdomine fulvo lituris duabus fasciaque interrupta fasciisque duabus ventralibus nigris, pedibus fulvis, alis cinereis apud apices nigricantibus, halteribus pallide flavis.
Female. Gilded; head clothed with pale-yellow hairs; mystax with several bristles; proboscis linear, tawny; antennæ yellow; 3rd joint reddish, elongate fusiform; thorax with 3 black stripes, the lateral pair abbreviated; abdomen tawny; 4th and 5th ventral segments with black bands; 4th dorsal segment with a slight black mark on each side; 5th with a widely interrupted black band; legs tawny; wings cinereous, blackish towards the tips; veins black, ferruginous towards the base; halteres pale yellow. Length of the body 11 lines; of the wings 20 lines.
42. Laphria Vulcanus, Wied. See Vol. I. p. 10.
43. Laphria Taphius, Walk. Cat. Dipt. pt. 2, 380.
Inhabits also the Philippine Islands.
44. Laphria requisita, n. s. Mas et Fœm. Viridis, capite aurato, antennarum articulo 3° longi-fusiformi, femoribus posticis incrassatis, alis nigricantibus basi et apud costam cinereis, halteribus testaceis. Mas. Femoribus anterioribus incrassatis, halteribus ex parte nigricantibus. Fœm. Abdomine purpurascenti-cyaneo basi viridi.
Male and Female. Green; head gilded in frost, with whitish hairs beneath; mystax with a few black bristles; third joint of the antennæ elongate-fusiform; hind femora incrassated. Wings blackish, cinereous near the base and along nearly half the length of the costa; veins black; halteres testaceous. Male. Anterior femora incrassated; halteres partly blackish. Female. Abdomen purplish blue, green towards the base. Length of the body 7-9 lines; of the wings 14-16 lines.