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somewhat apart, among others by the want of the ventral bristle 

 on middle tibiæ in male. I have examined the type of Fabricius, a 

 female, and it proved to be identical with Jiaematodes Meig. et auct., 

 so that it was necessary to alter the name. 



2. S. sinuata Meig. 



1826. Meig. Syst. Beschr. V, 22, 9. — 1845. Zett. Dipt. Scand. IV, 1289, 

 7 et 1849. VIII, 3267, 7. — 1896. Pand. Rev. Entom. XV, 188, 25. — 1907. 

 Villen. Ann. Soc. Ent. de Fr. LXXVI, 396. — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. 

 III, 490. — 1911. Kram. Abhandl. Nat. Gesell. Gorlitz, 27, 25, Tab. I, Fig. 1. 



— 1912. Bottch. Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 708, Fig. 2, et 1913. 366. — 1924. 

 Stein, Arcli. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 195. — S. arvormn Meig. 1826. 1. c. V, 24, 13. 



— 1900. Villen. Bull. Soc. Ent. de Fr. 364, 13. 



Male. Frons about half as broad as the eye. Orbits more than 

 half as broad as the frontal stripe, together with face white or slightly 

 yellowish. Frontal stripe black or dark brown. Outer vertical bristles 

 present. Bristles on cheeks somewhat long, in one row. Jowls black- 

 haired. Occipiit grey, black-haired, with yellow hairs centrally and 

 below. Antennæ with third joint slightly longer than second. Palpi 

 black, brownish on basal part, somewhat dilated apically. Thorax grey 

 pruinose, the black stripes broad, the inter- 

 stices narrow. Three postsutural dorsocentrals 

 and only a pair of small præscutellar acrosti- 

 chals. Scutellum with erect, crossing apical 

 bristles. Abdomen grey or yellowish grey 

 pruinose, black tessellated; third segment with 

 a pair of marginal bristles. Sternites with erect 

 hairs. Fifth sternite with a brush. Præhypo- 

 pygial segment black and shining, densely 

 haired, with a marginal row of bristly hairs. ^.^ gg ^ ^.„^^,^ 

 Hypopygium black; upper forceps with parallel 



margins but elongately pointed towards apex, with some small 

 spinules at apex on dorsal side; anterior claspers curved, posterior 

 shorter, more straight only curved at apex. Penis chitinised, the 

 lobes well developed. Middle femora with an elliptical spot of de- 

 pressed golden hairs on anterior side in apical third and without 

 comb, hind femora with some anteroventral bristles in apical half 

 or two thirds; both pairs with long hairs ventrally, and hind tibiæ 

 fringed, but not densely, on posteroventral side, very sparingly or 

 almost not in small individuals. Wings shghtly tinged; subcostal 



