68 MYCETOPHILID.E. 



13. discoloria, Meig. Zw. i. 239. 14. (1818); Mcq. — discolor, 

 Wahlb. ; Zett. Fulva, subtus testacea, palpis, lialteribus pedibusque 

 testaceis, antennis nigris, alls siibtestaceis, abdomine fasciis fuscesceuU- 

 bus. Ijong. l-|-2 ; alar. 2-4 lin. 



Tawni/, testaceous beneath. Palpi testaceous. Antennse black, 

 rather slender, shorter than the thorax. Wings with a very slight 

 testaceous tinge. Halteres testaceous. Fore borders of the abdominal 

 segments more or less broicnish. Legs testaceous ; tarsi brownish. 



Generally distributed. Frecj^uents the lime-tree. (E. S. I.) 



14. concisa, n. Nigra, palpis, halteribus, abdominis fasciis pcdi- 

 busque testaceis, pectore thoracisque lateribus piceis, alis subcinereis, 

 tarsis fuscescentibus. Long. 3 ; alar. 4 lin. 



Black. Palpi testaceous. Antennae testaceous at the base. Pectus 

 and sides of the thorax piceous. TFings greyish. Halteres testaceous. 

 Hind borders of the abdominal segments testaceous. Legs testaceous ; 

 tarsi brownish. 



Eare. (E.) 



Genus XXII. MACROCEIRA. 



Macrocera, Meig. Zw. i. 322 (1818); Curt.; Mcq. ; Zett. 



Corpus gracile, subliueare, longum, pubescens. Caput parvum. Oculi 

 rotundi. Ocelli 3, intermedius parvus, ante positus. Palpi 4-articu- 

 lati, breves, subincurvi. Antennce 16-articulata3, gracillima, corpore 

 (Equates aid trvplo longiores. Thorax brevis, ellipticus. AIcb latius- 

 culfE ; vena cubitalis f areata. Halteres breves. Abdomen lineare 

 aut sublineare, thorace triplo aut quadruplo longius. Pedes longi, 

 graciles ; tibice non sj)inos(£, calcaribus minimis. Mas. Auteuna3 lon- 

 giores, apice pilosce. Foevi. Antennae breviores. 

 Body slender, pubescent, nearly linear. Head small. Eyes round. 

 Ocelli three, the middle one very small, in advance of the others. 

 Labium forming two large pubescent lobes. Palpi four-jointed ; first 

 joints longer than the second, or than the third ; fourth as long as the 

 first. AntenncB sixteen-jointed, very slender, as long as the body, or 

 thrice its length. Thorax short, elliptical. Wings moderately broad ; 

 subcostal vein slightly curved forward at its tip, ending at much before 

 half the length of the wing ; radial curved upwards at its tip, ending at 

 a little beyond half the length ; cubital forked, springing from the radial 

 at before one-third of the length, near which it forms a very obtuse 

 jmgle at its junction with the transverse veinlct enclosing the praibra- 

 cliial and pobracln'al areolets, and is slightly curved from thence to its 

 end, which is at very little in front of the tip of the wing; its fore fork 

 is oblique, and ends at a little beyond two-thirds of the length of the 

 wing; subapical emerging from the cubital at belbre half the length, 

 near which it is forked, and its lore fork ends at the tip of the wing; 



