508 GNATS OR MOSQUITOES — CHAPTER XV 



1. MOCHLONYX YELUTINUS, Kuthe. 



Thorax brown with golden-yellow hair and two closely ap- 

 proximated darker longitudinal stripes ; scutellum and meta- 

 thorax also brown. Abdomen pale yellow with transverse brown 

 stripes, which are clearer and broader on the hinder than on the 

 fore segments, and on the last segment occupy the whole of the 

 upper side. Head, antennae and palpi brown, plume lighter, 

 nearly rusty-yellow. Legs yellow ; tarsi brownish, ungues 

 blackish-brown. Wings transparent, with golden-yellow veins 

 clothed with scales. 



Habitat. — Europe, including England. 



Pig. 50. — Wing of Mochlony.v vclutinus. From a photograph by Mr. G. C. 

 Bignell, late R.M.L.I. 



2. MOCHLONYX EFFOETUS, Halliday. 



Brownish-red, with yellowish down, almost of a golden gloss ; 

 bands on abdomen longer ; front thickly clothed with yellow 

 hairs. Palpi fuscous ; antenmc fusco-ferruginous, paler at the 

 base. Sutures of the thorax delicately marked with fuscous ; 

 hinder edge of abdominal segments and lateral lines darker ; 

 pleura} paler. Wiugs hyaline, a little yellowish towards the 

 costa ; veins pale, fusco-ferruginous ; halteres pale with fuscous 

 colouration at the tip. Legs pale ferruginous with fuscous hair ; 

 hind femora slightly embrowned before their tips. Four $ 

 specimens in Mr. Clifton's collection. Not now traceable. 



Habitat. — England. 



3. MOCHLONYX CULICIFORMIS (De Geer). 



Moiuert ; •' Overs. K. Dausk Vidcnsk. Scl^k," p. 16 (1883). 



Tipula culicifonnis, De Geer, "Mem. pour servir A I'Hist. d' Ins." vi, p. 2 



(1776). 



Fuscous browu with ferruginous hairs, thorax with an indis- 

 tinct double median line ; metanotum blackish. Abdomen pallid, 

 the dorsal terga for the most part densely sprinkled with dusky 

 black. Palpi and antennae dusky black, the antennas of the ? 



