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above on the four first joints, and a couple of longer hairs at the 

 apex; the middle metatarsi are slightly spinulous beneath. Wings 

 brown; veins blackish brown, dlscal vein with a sliglit and even 

 curve. Squamulæ yellow, with a whitish fringe. Balteres yellow. 



Female. Epistoma broad, this and the large palpi grey. An- 

 tennæ short, third joint almost as broad as long. Legs chiefly coloured 

 as in the male; front tarsi simple; the relative length of all metatarsi 

 chietly as in the male; femora short-haired ; anterior coxæ with no 

 black hairs at apex. 



Length 3 — 4,2 mm. 



P. penicillata is very rare in Denmark, only one specimen, a male, 

 has been taken in Jutland at Frederikshavn in July 1881 (H.J. Hansen). 



Geographical distribution: — Northern and middle Em-ope down 

 into France; it was not known to Zetterstedt from Scandinavia, but 

 according to Wahlgren (Entom. Tidsskr. 33, 1912, 39) it occurs in 

 southern Sweden. 



9. P. obscuripes Zett. 



1849. Zett. Dipt. Scand. VIII, 3061, 11 — 12 {Rhaphium). — 1859. 

 Loew, Neue Beitr. VI, 16, 1. — 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 199. — 1903. Kat. 

 palåarkt. Dipt. II, 331. 



Of this species only the female is known (see below). Vertex and 

 frons brown pruinose. Epistoma broad, this and the large palpi grey. 

 Occiput grey pruinose; postocular hairs black above, white below. 

 Antennæ black, unusually long for a female, the third joint elongated, 

 almost twice as long as the two basal ; arista short, somewhat thick, 

 especially ils first joint, slightly longer than the antennæ. Thorax 

 duU greyish brown or olive, very slightly metallic, blackish at the 

 sides and with two black middle stripes, abbreviated behind. Pleura 

 green, greyish pruinose, especially behind; propleural hairs pale. Ab- 

 domen æneous, clothed with short, black hairs, slightly pale in front; 

 there are short hindmarginal bristles. Legs with the coxæ grey, femora 

 blackish or brown, the anterior at the apex, and the tibiæ and tarsi 

 yellow, the latter darkened about from the apex of metatarsus; hind 

 tibiæ and tarsi brownish black ; the anterior metatarsi about as long 

 as the three following joints, hind metatarsus slightly longer than the 

 second joint. The legs have short, black hairs, coxæ with longer 

 whitish or, on the middle coxæ, pale brownish hairs; hind femora 

 with a preapical bristle, middle femora with one on each side; tibiæ 

 with two dorsal rovvs of few bristles, middle tibiæ also with a pair 

 of ventral bristles, and hind tibiæ with some few ventral bristles. 



