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and with the apex of metatarsus and the four following joints blackish. 

 The legs have short, black hairs, front femora a little longer hairs 

 below, the middle femora have longish, bristly hairs belovv^ towards 

 the apex on both sides, hind femora likewise on the anterior side; 

 front tibiæ with a pair of small bristies above; middle tibiæ with two 

 strong antero-dorsal and two or three small postero-dorsal bristles; 

 hind tibiæ with two dorsal rows of bristies, and a somewhat long 

 ciliation on the antero-dorsal and anterior side, continued out on the 

 tarsi. Wings hyaline; veins blackish. Squamulæ whitish, with a yel- 

 low fringe. Balteres whitish, 



Female. Epistoma broad, grey. Palpi large, grey. Front coxæ 

 more grey than in the male; femora very varying in colour, when 

 lightest the anterior femora with a dark stripe above, and the hind 

 femora with a patch near the apex, when darkest all femora blackish 

 and metallic green shining, except base and apex; also the hind tibiæ 

 may then sometimes be a little darkened at the end. 



Length 2,3—3 mm, 



C. neglectus is common in Denmark ; Charlottenlund, Ordrup Mose, 

 Ermelund, Dyreliaven, Ruderhegn, Ørholm, Præstevang and Frerslev 

 Hegn near Hillerød, Tisvilde, Faxe Ladeplads; on Langeland at Lo- 

 hals; on Funen at Veflinge; in Jutland in Vejle Nørreskov, Horsens, 

 Frijsenborg, Laven near Silkeborg, Hald near Viborg, Sæby and 

 Frederikshavn, and fmally on Bornholm at Hasle and Almindingen. 

 It is seen during the whole summer, my dates are '^^/s — ^/n. It occurs 

 on bushes and especially in grass and low herbage on humid meadows 

 in woods and on similar piaces. I have taken it in copula on ^^/t. 



Geographical distribution: — Northern and middle Europe and 

 down into Spain; towards the north to northern Scandinavia, and in 

 Finland. 



2. C. cilipes Meig. 



1824. Meig. Syst. Beschr. IV, 41, 3. — 1855. Zett. Dipt. Scand. XII, 4620, 

 9_]0. — 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 186. — 1874. Kow. Verhandl. zool. bot. 

 Gesell. Wien, XXIV, 460,2, Taf. XIII, Fig. 18-20. — 1903. Kat. palåarkt. 

 Dipt. n. 318. 



Male. Vertex and frons green or bluish green. Epistoma green, 

 very narrow downwards, the eyes almost touching. Palpi small, yel- 

 low. Occiput greenish, greyish pruinose; postocular bristles black 

 above, whitish below. Antennæ black, third joint a little enlarged, 

 relatively larger than in neglectus, broader than long. Thorax bright 

 or golden green, a little pruinose, shining. Pleura greenish, greyish 

 pruinose; propleura with two pale or brownish bristles. Abdomen 



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