29^ Orthorrhapha brachycera. 



pale hairs. The ventral lobes of the hypopygium are short, soniewhat 

 triangular, with a hair at the apex and a brush of hairs at thedorsal 

 angle ^; the outer lamellæ are long, they have an angle at the base 

 on the outer side and are from here triangularly 

 attenuated, so that their shape is elongated, 

 triangular with a thin apex; they are of brownish 

 colour, hairy at the margin, and with a long, 

 a little curved hair at the apex. Legs yellow. 

 front coxæ slightly greyish at the base, posterior 

 coxæ grey, more or less yellow at the apex ; 

 anterior tarsi darkened towards the end; hind 

 fernora darkened at the apex, hind tibiæ and 

 X monotnchum. Apical t^^'^' black or blackish. Middle coxæ with a 

 part of hvpopYgium with somewhat long, yellowish apical spine ; the front 

 ventral {obe^jand outer ^^^^. ^^^^ ^j^^ metatarsus a little shorter than 



the four following joints, it is a little thickened 

 towards the apex below; hind metatarsus a little shorter than the 

 second joint. The legs have short, black hairs, the coxæ are pale- 

 haired, the front coxæ with specially long and dense hairs; the 

 middle coxæ have one or two, the hind coxæ one black bristle; 

 also the front coxæ have about three bristly hairs at the apex, but 

 they are white; the posterior femora have a preapical bristle; the 

 front tibiæ have some bristles above, the posterior tibiæ about two 

 antero- and two postero-dorsal bristles, the latter smallest; the front 

 tarsi have a ciliation above, longest on metatarsus. Wings somewhat 

 brownish tinged; veins blackish, the discai vein slightly curved, its 

 last part parallel with the cubital vein. Squamulæ, with a yellow 

 fringe. Halteres yellow. 



Female. Epistoma broad, together with the large palpi grey. 

 Antennæ short, third joint triangular, somewhat pointed, the arista 

 not twice as long as the antennæ. Wings a little more brown than 

 in the male. The legs as in the male, but the hind tibiæ yellow or 

 only dark towards the apex, and the hind tarsi sornetimes pale at 

 the base; middle coxæ without apical spine; middle tibiæ with one 

 or two small ventral bristles; the coxal bristles as in the male, but 

 the three bristles at the end of the front coxæ black, not white as in 

 the male. 



Length 2,5 — 3 mm. 



With regard to the female, as I have described it above, a 

 question arises; I possess some females taken together with males. 



^ Loew's figure (1. c.) is not correct. 



