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A DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF TBE BRITISH CORBYLURIDM. 



BY E. H. MEADE, T.E.C S. 



{Continued from page 177). 



Sp. 6. — C. PUNCTiPEs, Mgn. 



Head with frontal space of moderate width, grey behind and I'cd in front ; face 

 white, with red reflections ; antennae red in the male and fuscous in the female ; 

 arista bare ; oral setae several and large ; palpi white and thickened, with one or 

 two apical setee ; proboscis black ; thorax and abdomen yellowish-brown, the former 

 with two sub-distinct dark stripes ; scutellum brown, with four bristles ; wings 

 clear ; legs rufous, hind knees spotted with black. Length, 3 mm. Rare. 



Becker places this species in Rondani's genus Trichopalpus. 



Gen. IX.— AMAUROSOMA, Becker. 



Cordylura, Mgn. 



CJeigastra, Schiner. 

 Gen. ch. — Dull grey species, with sub-globose head, large rotund 

 eyes, sub-approximate upon the vertex, and reaching nearly to the 

 bottom of the face ; antennae ratber long, with the upper apex of the 

 third joint pointed ; arista bare and thickened, with the second joint 

 somewhat elongated in the male ; oral setse two in number ; palpi 

 filiform ; thorax black, and coated with grey down or dust ; scutellum 

 with two long bristles ; abdomen of male grey, narrow, and sub- 

 cylindrical, with small apex and hypopygium ; legs with fore femora 

 armed with short spines and hairs. 



1 (2) Fore femora armed with a thick tuft of short black spines... 



1. fasciata, Mgn. 



2 (1) Fore femora with only a few spines 2. tibieUa, Zii. 



Sp. 1. — A. FASCTATA, Mgn. 



brevijyennis, Curtis. 



This dull grey species, which must be considered as the type of the genus, has 

 the frontal stripe wide in front, where it is red, and narrow behind, where a bifid 

 black spot is situated in the male ; the face is short and white ; antennae black, with 

 pointed apices and grey basal joints ; palpi pale ; proboscis black, long, narrow, and 

 pointed with small lobes; thorax with scutellum dusty grey, with two sub-distinct 

 stripes ; abdomen dull dark grey, narrow in the male, with small hypopygium, and 

 lanceolate and pointed in the female ; wings brunnescent ; legs testaceous, with a 

 broad grey or black band round the femora, which leaves only the base and front 

 part pale ; the four posterior tarsi, as well as the last three joints of the fore tarsi, 

 are also black ; the fore femora are armed beneath and in front with a thick tuft of 

 short black spines, and have a series of long, soft, pale hairs behind; the middle 

 femora have also a few spines. Length, 4 — 4§ mm. 



Mr. Adams sent a pair of these flies for my inspection, which he had taken in 



