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correct that Meigen's types to pratorum Fall. are a male fascipes and 

 a female fuscipes, these specimens do not belong to the same species, 

 fascipes, which was described by Zetterstedt only on the male, becomes 

 a synonym to pratorum Fall. emend. Meig., while fuscipes Zett. is a 

 good species. To the above synonymy of fuscipes should then be added; 

 P. pratorum Meig. 1824. Syst. Beschr. IV, 22, 7, p. p. ?. 



4. P. montium Beck. 



1897. Beck. Berl. Entom. Zeitschr. XLII, 50,16 et 1900. XLV, 222, 16 

 et 1921. Wien. Ent. Zeitg. XXXVIII, 125, 127. - 1910. Keitész, Cat. Dipt. 

 VII, 337 {Donjlas). 



Male. Frons somewhat high, whitish grey, epistoma silvery. 

 Occiput grey, brownish just above. Antennæ blackish, third joint 

 pointed oval but without distinct rostrum. 

 Thorax brown, dull, slightly greyish on the sides 

 behind the humeri; it is short and sparingly 

 haired, the hairs only forming dorsocentral rows, 

 behind the humeri they are a little more con- 

 spicuous; scutellum with the marginal hairs 

 longer, but fine. Pleura and postscutellum grey- 

 ish. Abdomen brown, dull, with somewhat in- 

 conspicuous greyish spots on the lateral hind 

 corners of the segments, stretching more or less 



up on the dorsum, first segment nearly quite 



■ , Auj • • 1 1 • ^ -+1 Fig. 10. Antenna of 



greyish. Abdomen is sparingly haired with very ^ „^oritium S x 100. 



short hairs, at the sides of first segment a fan 



of longer, black hairs. Hypopygium small, blackish, slightly shining, 



with a small oval or somewhat triangular apical impression; the end 



claws reddish. Legs black, slightly greyish, dull, hind femora shining 



on the posterior and posteroventral side; knees and basal part of 



tibiæ yellow, metatarsi a little brownish; the legs all short-haired, 



on the elevation on anterior side of hind tibiæ a couple of longer 



hairs; middle femora a little spinulose with a double row of small 



spinules below the apical half, but on front and hind femora the 



spinules very small, especially on front femora, and only forming 



one row. Wings a little tinged, stigma brown, as long or fuUy as long 



as next costal segment; middle cross-vein behind the first third 



of the discai cell. Halteres black, peduncle paler. 



