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fascils venfreque iestaceis, pedibiis testaceis, tarsis nigricantibiis fasciis 

 albidis. Long. 4 ; alar. 6^ lin. 



Fe/ii. Reddlish-testaceoiis . Thorax above hroicn, hidistinctly striped. 

 Anteniire bl•o^vll, with a whitish band at the tip of each joint. Things 

 slujldlii (ireyhh ; veins brown, fringed with brown hairs. Abdomen 

 brown, testaceous beneath and on the fore border of each segment. Legs 

 testaceous ; femora and tibi;e with blackish tips ; tarsi blackish, with 

 a whitish baud at the base of each joint. 



Eai'c. In the British Museum. (E.) This species much re- 

 sembles C. cantans, but viai/ be easily distinguished by the mtock 

 greater length of the fork of the siibapical vein. 



5. nemorosus, Meig. Zw. i. 4. 3 (1818); Steph.; Mcq.; Zett. ; 

 Gira. ; Stseg. — reptans, Meig. Klass. — fasciatus, Meig. Klass. — gutta- 

 tus? Meg.; Meig.; Curt.! B. E. 537. — ornatus ? Hoffm. ; Meig.; 

 Mcq. ; Stseg. ; Zett. — tateral'ts ? Meg. ; Meig. ; Gim. — sylvaticus, 

 Meig. ; Steph. Nigricans, thorace fasciis duabus albidis, alis cinereis, 

 abdomine fasciis aut maculis lateralibus albis, pedibus nigris, femoribus 

 testaceis apice nigris, genubus albo-punctatis. Long. 3-3^ ; alar. 5-G 

 lin. 



Blackish. Thorax with two whitish stripes. Wings grey ; veins 

 black, fringed Avith black hairs. Legs black ; femora pale testaceous, 

 black towards the tips ; a snow-white spot on each knee. 3Iale. Palpi 

 testaceous towards the base. Fern.. Colours more marked, legs stouter 

 than those of the male. Lancets testaceous. Abdomen with white 

 bands, which are generally more or less interrupted in the middle, and 

 form triangular spots on each side. 



Inhabits woods, and does not infest houses like C. anmdatus 

 and C. ciliaris. (E.) 



6. detritus, Hal. Eut. Mag. i. 151 (1833). Nigro-fnscus, alis 

 n'lgro-sqruunosis, abdomine pallid o-anmdato, ventre Ittteo trifariam fusco- 

 punctato, femoribus basi luteis. Long. 2|-3; alar. 4^-5 lin. 



Blackish-brown. Disc of the thorax nearly bare. Wings thickly 

 clothed with dusky black scales. Abdomen ivith pale bands ; under side 

 pale, with three rows of brown punctures. Femora luteous at the base. 



"In multitudes during the day among hedges on the sea-coast; 

 in the evening, in columns about the tops of trees, appearing like 

 smoke at the distance of a furlong. It is attached particularly to 

 water-cuts in the neighbourhood of the sea. The reddish gnat 

 (C. ciliaris, L.) is more general, and enters more into houses, but 

 I have not observed it in such clouds as C. detritus." — Hal. MSS. 



7. ciliaris, L. S. N. 2. 1002. 2 (1767); Schr. ; Gmel. ; Zett.— 

 pipicus, Geo'^.; Vill. ; Schr.; Meig.; Steph.; Mcq. — rufus? llofl'm. ; 

 Meig.; Steph. — domesticus ? G&vm. ; Meig.; Steph. Ferrugineus, tho- 

 race vittis duabus can is, alis subcinereis, abdomine fasciis testaceis, pedibus 

 testaceis, tarsis fuscis. Long. 2^-3 ; alar. 4|-5 lin. 



