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Wini;^ clothed with dusky hairs, and having a white dot beyond the 

 middle of the costa ; veins brown toward the costal region ; paler 

 in the $ than in the ? . Legs with long pale hairs. Femora and 

 tibiae slightly thickened in the female. Length, i lin. Generally 

 distributed and very abundant, especially in damp places and along 

 rivers. 



C. pulicaris, L. — C. punctata^ Latr. 



Gray. Head brown. Plumes of antennae in $ yellowish, shiny 

 in some lights ; brown in the $ ; first eight joints oval, remainder 

 elongate. Thorax with a dark stripe on each side in front of the 

 wings. Pectus and scutellum brown. Abdomen dark brown 

 sutures of the segments pale, nearly white. Wings white, with 

 brown dots, the three along the costa being the largest, and much 

 darker than the remainder. Legs pale brown ; posterior tibite very 

 pale ; tarsi also very pale, dark at the joints. Length, about i lin. 

 An abundant and widely-distributed species, often occurring in dense 

 clouds in damp and marshy places, especially in the evenings in 

 sultry weather, 



C nifidus, Macq. 



Black and shiny. Head dark brown ; plumes of the c? antennai 

 with bright white tips ; in the ? the antennce are often yellow 

 towards the base; the first to eighth joints are oval, the ninth to 

 thirteenth elongated ; the first joint longer than the second and 

 following. Thorax deep black. Abdomen with the two first seg- 

 ments transparent ; in the ? the abdomen is much contracted at 

 the base, where there are present a few white shiny hairs, as also on 

 the tip of the abdomen and on the hind borders of the segments ; 

 on the ventral side is a large subapical tuft of long black hairs. 

 Wings lanceolate ; veins pale. Legs tawny, with black markings ; 

 first and second tarsal joints pale, with dark tips; third, fourth, and 

 fifth black, the third pale at the base ; ungues short and slender in 

 the Si stout and long in the ?; plants in c^ with short, slender 

 spines, in the ? with five or six pairs of stout spines. Length, 1 ^- 

 to 2 lin. A common and generally distributed species. 



C. linearis, Mg. 



Head gray ; palpi brown, with first and second joints pale yellowish. 

 Thorax pale dirty-white, with two stripes and two spots of a reddish- 

 brown colour, the spots being placed behind the stripes. Scutellum 

 brown ; metathorax dark brown. xAbdomen dark brown, with pale 

 sutures. Antennae in S dark brown, the plumes pale yellowish- 



