MICROPIIORUS: 113 



partly pale. Abdomen glabrous, jiale beneatli. Tips of the hind 

 femora brown. 



Generally distributed. (E. I.) 



2. min-uta, Pin. d. s. emp. 32. 40 (1815); Mg.—favij)es,Zti. 

 — tidialis? Mq. d. i. 321. 1. — r/'fpes? Mq. zw. Nigi*a, autemus 

 fiiscis, alis limpidis ad costam fuscis, pedibus fulvis, tibiis ssepissime 

 tarsisque fuscis. Long. 1^-1|-; alar. 3-3i lin. 



Black, shining, thinly clothed with tawny hairs. Proboscis and 

 antenna hroicn. Wukjs colourless, more or less thujed with brown beneath 

 the fore border ; transverse vein more oblicpie than that of CE. stig- 

 VdateUa; stigma brown. Halteres yellow. Legs tawny; tarsi and 

 posterior tibiae brown. Var. Fore tibias brown. Var. Hind tibiae 

 tawny. 



Not very common. (E. S. I.) 



Genus XII. MICROPHORUS. 



MiCROPHORUS, Mq. d. n. (1827); Ztt. Trichina, Mg. Platypeza 

 p., Mg. (Edalea p., Ztt. 



Corpus minutum, vel minutissimum, glabriculura, nitiduni. Color 

 niger. Oculi connexi. Proboscis capite brevior, subocculta. Palpi 

 cylindrici. Antennae 5-articulatae, capite longiores ; articuli primus 

 et secundus brevissimi, contigui ; tertius longissimus, conicus, com- 

 pressus, quinto longior ; quartus brevissimus ; quintus brevis, stylatus. 

 Thorax gibbus. Alarum vena cuhitalis simplex ; vena externo-medits 

 8. Pedes aut simplices aut tibiis posticis dilatatis ; coxce femoribus 

 breviores ; tibia posticce recta, femoribus non breviores. 

 Mas. Anus obtusus. 

 Fceni. Anus acutus. 



Body black, small, or very small, smooth, shining. Eyes red, con- 

 nected. Proboscis shorter than the head, almost hidden. Palpi cylin- 

 drical. Antennae 5-jointed, somewhat longer than the head ; first 

 and second very short, approximate ; thii'd very long, conical, com- 

 pressed, longer than the fifth ; fourth very short ; fifth short, stylate. 

 Thorax gibbous. Wings lanceolate ; cubital vein simple ; externo- 

 viedial veins 3, arising from a discal areolet. Legs either simple or 

 with dilated hind tibia?. Coxa shorter than the femora ; hind tibia 

 straight, shorter than the femora. 

 Male. Tip of the abdomen obtuse. 

 Fein. Tip of the abdomen acute. 



This genus differs from (Edalea by the conical tliird joint of 

 the antennae, by the longer and more distinct sc(a^ and by the 

 simple and unarmed hind femora. The Microphori appear in 



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