KlIAMPHOMYIA. EMPIS. 34" 



a few stiff black hairs ; hind feinora apparentl^y with only micro- 

 scopic pubescence ; hind tibia? with soft black bail's on outer side, 

 becoming longer towards the tips, whei-e these tibiae themselves 

 are gradually tliickened ; hind metatai'si lengthened and enlarged. 



Fig. 28. — Rliamphomyla grhconigra, Bruii., wing. 



Whujs pale brown, stigma an indistinct darker brown streak; 

 halteres dirty brownish yellow. 



Lencjth, 4 mm. 



Described from a single J from Muudali, 9000 ft., DehraDiin, 

 12. V. 1010, in the Indian Museum. 



Genus EMPIS, L. 



Empis, Limiajus, Syst. Nat. lOtli ed. p. 603 (1758). 

 Platyptera, JMeigen, Illig-. Mag-, ii, p. 269 (1803). 

 Pachymei-ia , Stephens, Syst. Cat. Brit. Ins. ii, p. 262 (1829). 

 Plafypteri/f/ia, Stephens, loc. cif. p. 263. 

 Pacini inerina,'!slaiCq\\Avt, Hist. Nat. Dipt, i, p. 3.33 (1834). 

 Urio'f/aster, Macquart, Dipt. Exot. i, pt. 2, p. 102 (1839). 

 Hjioplempis, Bigot, Ball. Soc. Ent. France, (5) x, p. 47 (1880). 



Genotype, Empis i^^'^nipes, L. (Europe) ; by Latreille's designa- 

 tion. 



Head globular, sometimes elongated or pear-shaped, the occiput 

 in the latter case subconical ; some bristles and pubescence occur ; 

 eyes normally contiguous in m:ile, sometimes narrowly separated; 

 always more or less distinctly separated in female ; in contiguous 

 eyes, upper facets larger than lower ones, not distinctly demar- 

 cated ; ocellar tubercle prominent. Proboscis from as long as 

 height of head to as long as whole length of body, prominent,, 

 straight, directed downwards; ])alpi 1-jointed, slightly curved. 

 Antenna? B-jointed, with a distiuct 2- jointed style ; 1st joint longer 

 or shorter; 2nd short, both more or less bristly; 3rd always the 

 longest, conically tapering, bare ; first joiut of stvle always very 

 short, style always bare. Ihorax approximately rectangular, 

 moderately arched, prothorax distinct. Some weak dorso-central 

 and sometimes acrostichal bristles present, with distinct but not 

 strongly-developed bristles on margin of thorax, generally humeral, 

 post-humeral, uotopleural, supra-alar, and postalar. Scutellum with 

 two or more marginal bristles. Abdomen cylindrical in male, 

 broader at base and more tapering posteriorly in female ; 8-seg- 

 mented, the last sometimes hidclen. Genitalia in male well; 

 developed, consisting of at least two pairs of appendages ; in 



