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444. 

 MOLOPHILUS BREVIPENNIS. 



Order Diptera. Fam. Tipulidae. 



Type of the Genus, M. brevipennis Curt. 



MoLOPHiLus Curt. 



Antennce inserted close to the eyes at the base of the clypeus, 

 not longer than the thorax, moniliform, pubescent and hairy ; 

 16-jointed, 1st and 2nd joints stout, the former the longest, the 

 latter somewhat obcordate, the remainder gradually decreasing 

 in size to the apex, the 3rd ovate, penultimate joint globose (3). 

 Palpi rather short pilose and 5-jointed, 1st and 2nd joints mi- 

 nute, 3rd ovate, a little longer than the 4th which is subtrigo- 

 nate, 5th about the same size as the 3rd and ovate (2*/). Lip 

 very short and bilobed (g). 

 Head globose : eyes lateral and globose. Ocelli none. Prothorax 

 elongated, cylindric : Mesothorax trilobed ; scutellum somewhat lu- 

 nate, and slightly notched. Abdomen somewhat ovate 91 -jointed, 

 terminal joint semiorbicular and producing 2 large lobes in the tnale; 

 the terminal joint ovate in the females and furnished with an exserted 

 ovipositor, formed of 3 horny acute spines (7 9). Wings small (9) 

 the margin and nervures hairy. Halteres conspicuous, capitate. 

 Legs very long and rather stout, anterior the longest ; tarsi 5- 

 jointed, basal joint long : claws minute. 



Brevipennis Curtis' s Guide, Genus 1152, 1. 



Greyish fuscous, wings pale brown, straw-coloured at the base, 

 nervures darker brown : halteres nearly white : abdomen pilose, 

 the lobes at the extremity in the males blackish ; the ovipositor 

 in the females ferruginous : legs very pubescent. 



In the Cabinets of Mr. Dale, the Author, 8(C. 



This minute and singular insect was swept off heath, the 7th 

 June 1827, in some abundance by Mr. Dale and myself at the 

 top of a mountain between Ambleside and Ullswater, called 

 Red skrees, on the sides of which we took the Hipparchia 

 Cassiope. 



It is undoubtedly allied to Erioptera of Meigen, which it 

 resembles in having hairy wings, and the males have the abdo- 



