lum and tarsi, testaceous; abdomen with one hoary
stripe; legs tawny, with diffuse piceous bands; wings limpid, brownish
along the costa, and with a short oblique brownish stripe, extending
from the base to the interior border; veins black; discal transverse
vein parted by less than one-fourth of its length from the border, and
by a little more than its length from the praebrachial transverse;
halteres testaceous. Length of the body 3-3/4 lines; of the wings 7-1/2
lines.

131. DACUS LATIFASCIA, n. s. _Foem._ Niger; capite postice et apud
oculos albido; antennarum articulo tertio vix longo; thoracis fascia,
metathorace pectorisque fasciis duabus obliquis canis; abdomine cyaneo;
femoribus albidis apice nigris; alis albo-limpidis, costa atra, fasciis
duabus latissimis nigris; halteribus testaceis.

_Female._ Black. Head whitish behind and about the eyes; third joint of
the antennae linear, round at the tip, hardly long, arista plumose;
thorax with a band on the hind border of the scutum; metathorax and an
oblique band on each side of the pectus hoary; abdomen blue; coxae and
femora whitish, the latter with black tips; wings limpid white, deep
black along the costa, and with two very broad black bands; veins black;
discal transverse vein very oblique, parted by about one-sixth of its
length from the border, and by little more than half its length from the
praebrachial transverse; halteres testaceous. Length of the body 4 lines;
of the wings 8 lines.

132. DACUS MUTILLOIDES, n. s. _Foem._ Rufescens; capite nigro, postice
et apud oculos albo; antennarum articulo tertio angusto lineari
longissimo; thoracis vittis tribus, pectoris fasciis duabus obliquis
lateralibus abdominisque fasciis duabus (secunda interrupta) albis,
abdominis dimidio postico nigro-aeneo; pedibus piceis; alis sublimpidis,
costae apice venisque transversis nigro nebulosis; halteribus albidis.

_Female_. Reddish. Head black, white behind and about the eyes and on
the grooves of the face; antennae black, reddish at the base, third joint
slender, linear, very long, arista bare, rather stout; thorax with three
whitish stripes; pectus with a more distinct oblique white band on each
side; metathorax whitish; abdomen aeneous, pubescent, finely punctured,
reddish and slightly contracted towards the base, with two white bands,
the second widely interrupted; oviduct long, lanceolate; legs piceous;
wings nearly limpid, clouded with black at the tip of the costa and