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TWO NEW ENaLISH SPECIES OF HOMALOMYIA. 

 BY G. H. VERRALL, F.E.S. 



By a curious coincidence I lately determined to revise my speci- 

 mens of Homalomyia, and within an hour afterwards received a letter 

 from Herr Stein saying that he was going to monograph the European 

 species of the genus, and asking for the inspection of specimens. I 

 finished my revision, and sent him specimens, which I believe included 

 several undescribed species, but having worked so much at the genus 

 I did not quite like resigning all recognition, and consequently I asked 

 his permission to describe two species in which I took special interest. 

 He at once asked me to describe them in the Ent. Mo. Mag., conse- 

 quently I now give short descriptions, which I hope to amplify, with 

 notes on other species, after Stein's Monograph has appeared. 



H. CORVINA, n. sp. 



Nitens, coeruleo-niwer ; oculis ( ^ ) liaud cohcerentihus, orhitis ( ? ) coeruleo- 

 nitentihus ; jpedihus (J) nigris, subsimplicibus, tibiis posticis antice infra 

 versus vix ciliatis, mediis postice unisetosis ; alls flavescentibus, halteribus 

 aurantiacis. 



A largish species, distinguished at once by its blue-black shining 

 appearance ; the acrostichal bristles are about three-wide ; the middle 

 tibiae slightly dilated on the apical half with a fine cilia beneath ; the 

 coxse with long curved hairs rather than bristles ; the hind femora 

 bearing bristles near the tip only ; the abdomen about 2\ times longer 

 than broad. 



I caught one male at Ivybridge on June 13th, 1883, and four years 

 afterwards on the same date one female at Dolgelly. 



Herr Stein writes that he has received the species from various 

 European localities. 



H. KowARZi, n. sp. 



Tota grisea ; oculis (J) Jiaud cohcerentibus ; pedibus nigris, tibiis posticis 

 antice infra versus vix, postice haud, ciliatis, mediis postice unisetosis ; femo- 

 ribus posticis antice prope apicem fasciculatis. 



A medium sized species, of which I took one specimen between 

 Matlock and Matlock Bath on June 10th, 1888. The tuft in front of 

 the hind femora is a most unique character. I have named it after 

 Herr Kowarz, of Franzensbad, who has had the opportunity of bringing 

 forward some exquisite new species, which will doubtless appear in 

 Stein's Monograph. 



Sussex Lodge, Newmarket : 

 3Iaj/, 1892. 



