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134. 

 PLATYURA FLAVIPES. 



Order Diptera. Fam. Tipulidae hat,^ Leach. 



Type of the Genus P. flavipes Meig. 

 Platyuka Meig. — Asindulum Lat. — Ceroplatus Fab. — Rhagio Fab. 

 — Sciara Fab. 



Antenna: alike in both sexes, porrected, longer than tlie head, 

 inserted between the eyes in large fovea, pilose, 17-jointed, 

 basal joint short, 2nd more robust, cup-shaped, 3rd nearly as 

 long as the 2nd, remainder transverse^ terminal joint conical 

 (fig. 3). 



Labrum and Tongue obscure. 

 Mandibles and Maxillce none. 



PaZjoi exserted, incurved, longer than the lip, 4-jointed, 1st joint 

 small, 2nd robust, 3rd large, 4th elongate-ovate (l*fj. 

 Lip short, bilobed (g). 

 Head small, vertical, obovate. Eyes lateral. Ocelli 3 in triangle, 

 below the crown of the head, in some the anterior one is the smallest. 

 (2*, the head viewed from above with the basal joints of the an- 

 tenncE.) Thorax gibbous. Scutellum small, rounded. Abdomen 

 large, sometimes depressed, more slender in the males. Wings not 

 longer than the abdomen, parallel, incumbent, naked, containing 

 about 12 cells, having a transverse nervure near the apex uniting the 

 costal and subcostal nervures. Halteres distinct. Legs simple, 

 naked, anterior the shortest. Tibise tinarmed on the sides, terminated 

 by spurs. Tarsi 5-jointed, basal joint long. Claws and Pulvilli 

 minute. 



Flavipes Meig. Syst. Besch. v. 1. p. 237. n. 9. 



Female shining, pubescent. Antennae fuscous. Head and thorax 

 black, the latter pubescent and inclining to red behind. Scu- 

 tellum and abdomen fuscous, the posterior margins of the seg- 

 ments ochraceous. Wings short, slightly fuscous with a yellow 

 tinge, very iridescent. Halteres pale fuscous. Legs pale ochra- 

 ceous 3 tibise inclining to fuscous ; tarsi to black. 



In the Cabinets of Mr. Stephens and the Author. 



