260 PHLEBOTOMIDiE. 



9. nubila, Meg.; Meig. Zw. i. 107. 9 (1818); 7.^ii.—plmUnoides, 

 Scop. — ciliatus, Geoffr. — liirta, D. G. ; Hetz ; Latr. — homhijciformis* 

 Sclir. Fiisca, cervmo-liirta, alls ovatis fiiscis albido-maculatis, tibils apice 

 tarsisqiie albo-annulatis ; Mas, fasciculo frontis erecto aterrimo antice niveo. 



Head, thorax, and ahdomen clothed with faion-coloured hairs (or whitish 

 on the head). TFin(js with broion hair ; faint brownish dots at the forks 

 and at the end of veins ; a whitish spot near the base, two at the anterior 

 viarcfin, one before and one beyond the middle, and several smaller ones 

 towards the hind margin; fringe fuscous, but dingy-whitish towards the 

 end at the tip of the wing {not throughout, as in TJlomyia hirta). Legs 

 fuscous, with long whitish hairs ; the end of the tibias, the base and 

 the tip of the first basal joint, and the whole of the third on one side, 

 whitish-glossed. Male. With a recurved spreading tuft of hairs on the 

 front, very conspicuous from the colour being snow-white before and 

 intense black behind. 



Very common ; reared from larvre found on fallen leaves im- 

 mersed in the water of pools or slow streams. (E. S. I.) 



10. fusca, Mcq. Tip. N. Fr. 110. 4 (1824) ; H. N. D. i. 165. 6; 

 Meig. — phaJcenoides, Var. ? Schr. FuUginosa, alls ovatis postice atro- 

 ciliatis, antennarum basi palpisque atro-hirtis. 



Almost as large as P. nubila. Clothed with sooty hairs, tlie dark 

 tufts at the forks of the wing scarcely marked, but the two hindmost 

 veins of the margin behind them ciliated with deep black hairs ; the 

 tuft at the base of the costa hoary. Forks at about two-fifths of the 

 length of the wing. Antennae with fawn-coloured whorls of hair, the 

 first two joints and the palpi thickly clothed with deep black hairs (in 

 the male only??). 



Not common. (I.) 



11. calceata, Meig. Zw. vi. 272. 11 (1830); Zett. Nigro-fusca, 

 griseo-villosa, alis ovatis fuliginosis fimbria apicis tarsornmque articulis 

 extremis albidis. 



Blachish-brown, with cinereous hairs. Wings oval, smoky ; fringe and 

 the apical joints of the tarsi whitish. 



" Eesembles the preceding species a good deal^ but the fringe 

 at the tip of the wing is whitish, and the exterior joints of the 

 tarsi are glossed-whitish. My specimen, given me by Mr. Dale, 

 is too much injured to afford additions to Meigen's description." 

 —Hal. 



* " I have cited this, on aecoimt of the carriage of the wings, rather than Tipiila 

 Jiirta, Sehr. (Fn. B. iii. 82. 2348). This last therefore remains uncertain ; also 2\ 

 fhalanoides, Sehr. (Ins. Austr. 434. 883 ; En. B. iii. 82. 2349), since he ajipears to 

 have understood plialienoides, L., under liis nervosa. The diagnosis of phalanoides, 

 Sehr., agrees with lurta, Latr., cUialus, Geolfr., hut, as I liave said, the contrast Jie 

 expressly draws as to carriage of wings seems to exclude it from tlie synonyms of 

 iinhila, Meig." — Hal. 



