64 DIPTERA 



Genus-C^NOSIA. 



Meiyen. 



Third joint of the antennae elongated, slender, compressed ; style 

 plumose, tomentose, or naked. Front broad in both sexes. Abdomen 

 elongated, compressed, bent over below, and generally swollen at the 

 extremity in the male ; oval in the female. Scales small ; lower valve 

 passing the upper. Wings without any point on the exterior margin. 



C. spiNiPEs. Walker, I.e., p. 969 (1849) . 



Body thinly clothed with black hairs and bristles. Head bright 

 tawny ; sides of the face without bristles ; epistome not prominent ; 

 eyes red, fore-part rather flat, its facets much larger than those else- 

 •where ; proboscis pitchy, clothed with tawny hairs ; palpi tawny, beset 

 with black bristles. Antennae deep black, shorter than the face -, 

 third joint linear, slender, rounded at the tip, about thrice the length 

 of the second, which is dark ferruginous ; style black, slender, downy, 

 rather stout for one-third the length from the base, full twice the 

 length of the third joint. Thorax and breast grey ; disc of the thorax 

 with a tawny tinge, adorned with three slender brown stripes. Abdo- 

 men grey, spindle-shaped, adorned with a large triangular hoary spot 

 on each side of the fore-border of every segment; ferruginous at the 

 tip beneath, longer and a little narrower than the thorax. Legs dark 

 tawny, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; feet black, tawny 

 towards the base ; claws black ; foot-cushions pale tawny. "Wings 

 grey ; cross-veins clouded with brown ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, 

 tawny towards the base ; lower cross-vein almost straight, slightly 

 oblique, separated by more than its length from the middle cross-vein, 

 which is stouter and more oblique. Scales moderate, whitish with 

 pale-yellow borders, the lower extending beyond the upper. Poisers 

 tawny. 



Length, Si lines. 



Sub-Family — TETAJTOCEEiNiE. 

 Third joint of the antennae oval ; the second elongated, equalling 

 or surpassing in length the third, hairy. Abdomen elongated, of five 

 distinct segments. 



Genus-CYLINDEIA. 



Roh. Desvoidy. 



Front projecting. Antennae as long as the head; second joint 

 broad, compressed, equal in length to the third. Posterior femora 



