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In other respects this species agrees with the preceding genus in 

 the structure of the body; with S. curticalis and vau it even 

 agrees in the coloring and the picture of the body, as well as in 

 the bristle-like nature of the upper hairs on the sides of the front. 



1. C. amiulipes Macq. £ J.— (Tab. VIII, f. 27.) Fusconigra, 

 albido-pollinosa, et punotis uiaculisque fusco-nigris variegata, tibiis 

 taisisque pallide lutescentibus, illis uigro-triaunulatis, bis apicem versus 

 infuscatia ; alae hyalinae, maculis punctisque nigris confertim asperse. 



Brownish-black, with a whitish pollen, pictured with brownish-black spots 

 and dots ; tibiae and tarsi pale-yellowish, the former with three black 

 rings, the latter brown towards their end. Wings hyaline, densely 

 covered with black spots and dots. Long. corp. % 0.14—0.15; £ 0.17; 

 long. al. 0.16—0.18. 



Syn. Platystoma tuinulipes Macquart, Dipt. Exot. Suppl. V, p. 121. 



The ground color of the body is brownish-black and opaque; 

 the pollen, covering it, is whitish-gray. Head of the same color, 

 covered everywhere with brownish-black spots, moreover, dotted 

 with brownish-black upon the front and the cheeks; upon the 

 posterior orbit especially there is a conspicuous short row of 

 brownish-black spots. Front very broad, perceptibly narrower 

 anteriorly, where it is yellowish or yellowish-red. Eyes rather 

 strongly projecting. Antennae brown, the first two joints and the 

 larger part of the inner side of the third joint yellowish-brown, 

 sometimes much paler. Thoracic dorsum with brownish-black 

 dots, which coalesce into ill-defined, although regularly arranged, 

 spots. Scutellum somewhat swollen, with four bristles, two 

 brownish-black longitudinal stripes and two blackish-brown dots, 

 upon which the lateral bristles are inserted. Pleura? likewise with 

 brownish-black dots and spots; the latter form two irregular and 

 incomplete longitudinal stripes. Pectus brownish-black, with a 

 brown, but little perceptible, pollen. Abdomen with brownish- 

 black dots and regularly arranged spots; the first segment of the 

 ovipositor is for the most part covered with a whitish-gray pollen 

 and punctate with brownish-black. Femora brownish-black, with 

 a more or less distinct, broad, irregular ring, covered with gray 

 pollen, and with black dots ; the tip is pale-yellowish. Tibiae 

 pale-yellowish with three regular brownish-black rings; the first 

 near the basis, the last before the apex; tarsi of the same color 

 as the tibiae, infuscated towards the tip. Halteres pale-yellowish. 



