ID-i CUIIIONOMID.E. 



tarsi black ; fourth joint about twice as long an the fifth. Male. An- 

 teuuEe plumate ; last joint linear, ranch longer than the rest united. 

 Not rare. (E. I.) 



191. Chiron, Hal. MSS. Mas, " ci)W7'eus, pleuris pedibusque fla- 

 vidis, tarsis anticis barbatis. I^ong. 2 ; alar. 4 lin." 



Male. " Antennae brownish-yellow ; first joint dusky cinereous ; fea- 

 thers yellowish ; last joint much longer than the rest jointly. Thorax 

 with the sides fernaginous before the wings (scutelluni also, but darker). 

 Wings hyaline ; veins very pale (so that the characteristic transverse 

 vein is easily overlooked) ; pobrachial areolet closed a little beyond the 

 fork of the pobrachial vein. Halteres pale yeliow. Legs and coxse 

 ferruginous ; only tlie tips of the tarsi dusky ; fourth joint of the tarsi 

 about twice as long as the fifth ; posterior femora and tibiae hairy; fore 

 tarsi still more so ; first joint a little shorter than the tibia. (Abdomen 

 lost in the only specimen.)" — Hal. MSS. 



Eare. Found b}" Mr. Haliday, near Holyrood, Belfast. (I.) 



192. Waltlii, Meig. Z\v. vii. 13. 1 (1838). '' Fcem. nigricans, 

 thoracis dorso schisiuceo. Long. 2^ ; alar. 4-1- lin. 



"Fern. Blackish, with a slaty-grey tinge on the vertex, mesonotura, 

 and metanotum, and three faint, darker, shifting stripes on the raeso- 

 notnm. Antennse eight-jointed ; last joint long-elliptical, as long as 

 the three preceding. Vvings hyaline, with the anterior veins conspicu- 

 ous fuscous ; the ])obrachial areolet closed beyond the fork of the po- 

 brachial vein (as in Tavypus nebulosus). Incisures of the abdomen 

 with a paler shade. Legs finely pubescent; first joint of the fore tarsi 

 shorter than the tibiae. ; J'onrth sliorter than the fifth, notched at the 

 tip."— Hal. MSS. 



Rare. (E. I.) 



193. Ammon, Hal. MSS. " Schistaceus, femoribus tibiisque poste- 

 rioribus flavidis auticis fuscis ; Mas, alls albis ; Foem. antennis %-arti- 

 cidatis, pleuris et ventre fiavidis, alls subhyalinis. Long. 2 ; alar. 4 lin. 



" Pale slaty-grey. Fore legs dusky; femora at the base and coxas 

 light ferruginous ; posterior femora and posterior tibiee ferruginous, 

 except at the tips; (tarsi sometimes lighter brown at the base;) fourth 

 joint the shortest, notched, almost obcordate. Male. Front broad. 

 Eyes a little emarginate internally. Antennae nearly as long as the 

 thorax ; first joint dusky, rest dingy -yellowish ; last nearly two-thirds of 

 the whole length ; feathers light yellowish ; sides of the thorax gene- 

 rally a little ferruginous before the wings. Wings white, as is also the 

 very faint pubescence of the hind margin ; the usual veins pale brown- 

 ish, whiti.'.h towards the base. y\bdomtm blackish, clothed with long, 

 pale soft hairs ; first joint of fore tarsus al)out as long as the tibiae. 

 Fern. AntennrB eifjM-jointed, dusky ; first joint thick, ferruginous • last 

 longer than the three preceding together. Thorax ferruginous, with 

 three confluent l)anus on the mesouotum ; scutelluni rather pitchy-red- 

 dish ; metanotum and mesostcrnura pale slaty-grey. Wings hyaline. 



