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sionally yo.llowish ; second joint long-. Thorax pale (jrey, with two 

 stripes and two sjwts of a cojfee-hrown colour ; the spots are behind the 

 stripes, which are occasionally interrupted. Scutellum sometimes more 

 or less tawny. Metathorax and abdomen Idacl-ish-tjrown, the latter with 

 whitish sutures. Wings limpid ; veins pale brown. Halteres tawny, 

 with blackish-browii knobs. Legs tawny, more or less blackish-brown 

 at the tips of the femora, of the tibiae, and of the joints of the tarsi ; 

 these bands as usual are broader on the femora than on the tibiae, and 

 on the hind legs than on the fore legs ; fore femora armed with seven- 

 teen spines ; middle femora with four ; hind femora with three ; hind 

 plantie with a stout bristle on the side. Male. Antenuct blackish- 

 brown, their plumes with a yellowish glistening. Jem. AntenuEe brown, 

 generally with yellow bands, yellowish at the base ; joints from the 

 first to the eighth oval, almost cylindrical ; from the ninth to the thir- 

 teenth elliptical, very long; first joint elongated before the middle; 

 second and six following elongated beyond the middle. Wings slightly 

 yellowish towards the costa. 

 Generally distributed. (E.) 



64. tibialis, Meig. Zw. i. 82. 36 (1818); Stfeg. ; Es. ; Zett. ; 

 Winn. ! Ijinn. Ent. vi. pi. 8. f. 62. — apicalis? lloser. Fcem. niger, ni- 

 tidus, facie, palpis antennisque nigro-fuscis, alis subfuscescentibus apud 

 costam obscurioribus, venis fuscis apud costam nigro-fuscis, abdomine 

 basi subcontracto, pedibus fulvis, femoribus tibiisque apice fuscis, tarsis 

 albo-fiavis apice uigris, tibiis posticis nigris. Long, li; alar. 3 lin. 



Fern. Black, shinhuj. Face, palpi, and antennai blackish-brown ; 

 joints of the latter from the first to the eighth oval, almost cyhndrical, 

 somewhat straightened beyond the middle ; from the ninth to the thir- 

 teenth elliptical, much elongated. Wings somewhat brownish, darker 

 towards the costa ; veins bi'owu, blackish-brown in front. . Halteres 

 black ; petioles occasionally yellowish-white. Legs tawny ; tarsi whitish- 

 yellow ; fourth and fifth joints with black tips, wholly black in the 

 hind tarsi; anterior knees and tips of the anterior tibiae brown; hind 

 femora for one-third of the length from the tips, and the whole of the 

 hind tibifE, black ; fore femora and hind femora somewhat incrassated ; 

 fore femora with ten spines, middle femora with two, and hind femora 

 with four; plantpe with five pair of spines ; ungues stout. 



Generally distributed. (E. S. I.) 



65. fasciatus, Meig. Zw. i. 79. 27 (1818); Mcq.; Stteg.; Blanch.; 

 Zett. ; A\ inn. ! Linn. Ent. vi. pi. 8. f. 63. — cingulatus, Meig. ; lis. — 

 mar(jiuatus, Steph. ; Curt.! B. E. 285. Fcem. pallide cinerens, palpis 

 fulvis aut nigro-fuscis, antennis nigro-fuscis, articulis inferioribus basi 

 sajpissime fulvis, thorace vittis tribus fuscis, scutello stepe plus rainusve 

 fulvo, raetathorace nigro-fuseo, alis hyalinis, venis pallidis apud costam 

 fuscis, halteribus albis, abdominis basi apiccque nigro-fuscis, pedibus 

 fulvis plus minusve nigro-fusco variis. Long. 2^ ; alar. 5 lin. 



Fem. Front and face grey, blackish-grey, or brown. Palpi tawny 



