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gave it the name minimus, under which Zetterstedt described it. 

 Zetterstedt notes that Stæger took the species in copula, 



Geographical distribution: — Middle Europe and down to Gorsica; 

 it seems to have its northern Umit in Denmark as it is not known 

 from Scandinavia, but it occurs in England. 



Subg. Gymnopternus. 

 8. H. cupreus Fall. 



1823. Fall. Dipt. Suec. Dol. 15, 15 (Dolichopus) . — 1824. Meig Syst. 

 Beschr. IV, 98, 42 {Dolichopus). — 1831. Stann. Isis 1831, 260, 49 

 (Dolichopus). — 1842. Stæg. Krøyer's Tidsskr. IV, 43,40 (Dolichopus). — 

 1843. Zett. Dipt. Scand. II, 577, 66, et 1855. XII, 4632, 66 (Dolicho- 

 pus). — 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 209. — 1903. Kat. palaarkt. Dipt. Il, 317. 



Vertex and frons grey dusted, ocellar tubercle darker. Epistoma 

 not very narrow, grey, clypeus bent angularly inwards. Palpi black. 

 Occiput a Httle greenish, grey pruinose; postocular bristles black. 

 Antennæ black, somewhat short, not as long as the head, the third 

 joint shorter than broad, roundly pointed; the arista distinctly but 

 short-haired. Thorax dark green, slightly pruinose, shining; scutellum 

 haired with short, black hairs both at the margin and above. Pleura 

 dark green, grey pruinose ; propleura with a fevv black or brown hairs 

 and a black prothoracic bristle. Abdomen dark green, sometimes a 

 little æneous, very slightly pruinose downwards; it is clothed with 

 short, black hairs and has short hindmarginal bristles, somewhat lon- 

 ger on the first segment. Venter greenish, grey pruinose, with dark 

 or brown hairs, somewhat long at the base. Hypopygium somewhat 

 long, black. greyish pruinose; eighth segment with black hairs; on the 

 ventral side of the hypopygium there are long, styliform lobes, arising 

 from the middle with a broad base; they project beyond the end of 

 the hypopygium, the apex is curved upwards, and there is a long 

 hair on the ventral side in the middle; the sheath of the penis reaches 

 to the end of the hypopygium; at the end there are two pairs of 

 inner lamellæ, the lateral short, flat and with small spines at the 

 apex, the median longer, somewhat styliform, dilated at the apex, 

 and with a small spine at the ventral corner; the dorsal median 

 appendage is very complicated ; the outer lamellæ rather small, some- 

 what roundish triangular, black or brownish black, with long, some- 

 what curved hairs at the apical and ventral margin. Legs with the 

 coxæ grey with yellowish apex, femora black or brownish black, the 

 apex yellow, most narrowly on the hind femora; tibiæ yellow, middle 

 tibiæ thickened, most towards the apex, and the very apex curved a 



