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ceding. Wings quite colourless, very transparent; veins black, yellow 

 towards the base. Halteres yellow. Legs yellow; tips of the tarsi 

 brown ; middle femora thick ; middle tibiae curved. 

 Rare. In the collection of the Ent. Club. (E.) 



32. annulatus. Fin. emp. 7. 2 (181.5); Mg. ; Mq. ; Ztt. Cine- 

 reus, capite cano autice albo, antennis nigris basi fulvis. pectore cauo, 

 alis limpidis, abdomine nigro, pedibus fulvis, femoribus tibiis apice 

 tarsorunuiue articuUs plerumque apice nigris. Long. IJ-li; alar. 

 3-31 lin. 



Cinereous, Head hoary, clothed behind with white hairs ; epistoma 

 shining white. Proboscis black. Palpi yellow. Antennae black, pu- 

 bescent ; tirst and second joints tawny ; third conical, a httle longer 

 than the first and the secontl ; fourth longer than all the preceding- 

 joints. Thorax hoaiy beneath. Wings colourless ; veins yellow, 

 brown towards the tips ; fourth longitudinal vein inclined towards the 

 tliird. Halteres yellow. Abdomen black, shining. Legs taicny ,- 

 anterior femora mostly black ; hind femora slightly tinged loitli black, 

 sometimes quite black ; middle femora very thick ; middle tibioe curved ; 

 tips of the hind tibice and of the joints of the tarsi black, the latter, 

 especially the hind pair, sometimes all black excepting the base. Male. 

 Fore femora and fore tibiae thick ; fore tibia3 black at the tips, some- 

 times all black excepting the base. 



Generally distributed. (E. S. I.) 



33. minutus, Mg. zw. iii. 76. 20 (1822); Mq. ; Zii.— annula- 

 tus var. /3, Fin. Niger, capite thoracis lateribus pectoreque canis, 

 alis limpidis, pedibus fulvis, femoribus nigro-ciuctls, tibiis posteriori- 

 bus basi apiceque nigris, tarsis flavis nigro-cinctis. Long. 1-1 i; alar. 

 2-2* lin. 



Black, shining. Head hoary. Palpi yellow. Third joint of the 

 antenufe conical, nearly as long as the first and the second ; fourth as 

 long as all the preceding. Thorax hoary on each side and beneath. 

 Wings colourless ; veins black, yellow at the base ; third and fourth 

 longitudinal veins very slightly converging towards the tips. Halteres 

 tawny ; femora black, taicny at the base and at the tips ; middle femora 

 thick ; fore femora rather thick ; tibiee tawny ; posterior tibi(B black at 

 the base and at the tips ; middle tibiae curved, sometimes black ; tarsi 

 yellotc ; tips of the joints black. Male. Fore tibiic thick. 



Generally distributed. (E. I.) 



34. castanipes? Mg. zw. iii. 79. 26 (1822). Cinerens, antennis 

 nigris, alis limpidis, abdomine pedibusque nigris, tibiis posterioribus 



fuscis, tarsis basi tibiisque anticis fulvis. Long. \\; alar. 2^ lin. 



Grey. Proboscis black. Palpi yellow. Antenure black; third 

 joint conical, as long as the first and the second ; fom"th a little longer 

 than the third. Wings colourless; veins black, tawny at the base; 

 third and fourth longitudinal veins slightlv inclined towards each other. 



