Dolichopodidae. 113 



Ladeplads (the author) and on Funen at Hoffmansgave and Veflinge 

 (H. J. Hansen). My dates are in July. 



Geographical distribution: — Northern and middle Europe down 

 into France; towards the north to middle Sweden. 



27. D. ciliefemoratus Macq. 



1827. Macq. Soc. Se. Lille, 1827,63,9, et 1834. Suit. a Buff. I, 463, 

 16. — 1838. Meig. Syst. Beschr. VII, 161, 56. — 1843. Zett. Dipt. Scand. 

 II, 548, 40. — 1903. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. II, 296. — DoUchopus nitidiis 

 Stann. (nec Fall.) 183i: Isis 1831, 50, 5. 



Male. Vertex and frons green or cyaneous. Epistoma somewhat 

 narrow, white or greyish white. Palpi yellow. Occiput greenish, 

 greyish pruinose; postocular bristles whitish below, black above. 

 Antennæ a little elongated, as long as the head, third joint elongated, 

 longer than broad, the lower margin convex, the upper straight, and 

 thus the point dorsal; they are yellow, the third joint brownish on 

 the whole apical part and above; the basal joints may appear very 

 slightly darkened above on aecount of the black hairs. Thorax greenish, 

 generally with a more golden green middle stripe, or it is bluish with 

 a more greenish stripe; it is slightly pruinose, not much shining; 

 scutellum fmely yellow pubescent; postscutellum green, greyish pruinose. 

 Pleura greenish or bluish, grey pruinose; propleura with fine, pale 

 hairs and a black prothoracic bristle. Abdomen green with golden 

 or bluish reflexes, slightly whitish pruinose downwards, and with nar- 

 row, dark hind margins to the segments; it is clothed with short, 

 black hairs, but down the sides the hairs are yellow, especially on 

 the second and third segment; there are black hindmarginal bristles, 

 a little longer on the first segment. Venter greenish grey, somewhat 

 densely pale-haired, the hairs on the third segment curved forwards. 

 Hypopygium small, black or æneous to greenish black, grey pruinose; 

 the eighth segment with somewhat long, black hairs ; there are some- 

 what projecting but not broad posterior ventral lobes, pointed towards 

 the upper apical corner; the inner lamellæ curved downwards, the 

 median thin, with styliform apex, the lateral dilated, with a dilatation 

 at the apex; the outer lamellæ somewhat trapeze-shaped, narrower 

 than in festivus, whitish with a narrow, blackish brown margin along 

 the ventral, apical and outer part of the dorsal edge; at the end 

 there are some teeth with curved, black hairs, the dorsal tooth rather 

 long; the ventral margin slightly serrated, with shorter hairs, and on 

 the inner side with inwards curved, pale hairs. Legs yellow, front 

 coxæ slightly whitish anteriorly, middle coxæ grey, yellow on the 

 apical part and partly on the anterior side, hind coxæ only with a 



