140 EMPIDiE. 



Black, shiuing. Head and thorax beset with a very few bristles. 

 First and second joints of the antennae tawny; third nearly round, 

 very little longer than the second ; fourth very long, more than four 

 times the length of all the preceding joints. Thorax more or less 

 ceneous or greenish-black. Wings white, with 2 very broad, dark broion 

 bauds ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; second longitudinal vein 

 hardly more remote from the third than from the costa. Halteres 

 yellow. Coxpe tawny ; anterior femora tawny beneath and at the base ; 

 knees tawny ; tarsi yellow, black toioards the tips. 



Generally distributed. (E. S. I.) 



2. cimicoides, Fb.? sp. i. 447. 61 (1781); Gm.; Mg. — mnbrarum, 

 Hal. — albitarsis, Steeg. ; Ztt. d. s. i. 313. 2. Nigra, antennis basi 

 fulvis, thorace nigro-teneo, alls albis fusco-bifasciatis, venis secunda 

 tertiaqiie remotis, halteribus flavis, coxis femoribus anterioribus basi 

 subtusque genubusque fulvis, tarsis flavis apice nigris. Long. 1^ ; 

 alar. 2i lin. 



Black, shining. Head and thorax beset with very few spines. 

 First and second joints of the antennae tawary ; third nearly round, 

 very little longer than the second ; fourth very long, more than 4 times 

 the length of all the preceding. Wings white, with 2 brown bands, 

 which are rather ftarrotoer and paler than those of T. arrogans ; veins 

 black, yellow towards the base ; space between the second and third 

 longitudinal veins ttcice that between the second and the costa. Halteres 

 yellow. Coxa3 tawny ; anterior femora tawny beneath and at the base ; 

 knees ta^vny ; ta^'si yellow, black towards the tips. The male has the 

 intermediate tibiae at the tip produced into a compressed lobe, and the 

 legs more black. 



Hare. In the collectious of the Entomological Club and of 

 Mr. Haliday. (E. S. I.) 



3. connexa, Mg. zw. iii. 70. 3. pi. 23. f. 24 (1822); Mq.— 

 cimicoides, Mg. kl. Nigra, antennis fuscis basi flavis, thorace nigro- 

 ccneo, alarum fasciis dtiabus comiexis fuscis, halteribus albis, pedibus 

 fulvo flavoque variis. Long. \\ ; alar. 2 lin. 



Black, shining. Head and thorax beset with very few black bristles. 

 Antennae brown ; first and second joints yellow ; third nearly round, 

 very little longer than the second ; fourth more than 4 times the length 

 of all the preceding. Thorax aeneous-black. Wings ivhite, mostly 

 occupied by 2 very broad dark broimi bands, rohich are connected beneath 

 the costa, and nearly so on the hind border ; veins black, tawny towards 

 the base ; second longitudinal vein as near to the third as to the costa. 

 Halteres white. Coxae, posterior femora and fore tibiae at the base, 

 and fore femora tawny; anterior tibiae, excepting the tips and anterior 

 femora, sometimes tawny. Legs sometimes yellowy excepting the hind 

 femora and liind tibia", which are brown. 



Generally distributed. (E. 1.) 



