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Neuria ruf oscutellata, Jsennicke, Abhand. der Senkenb. 

 naturf. G. vi., 1867, p. 345, PL xliii., fig. 9 

 {— ? Comptosia dticens, Walker.) 



SYSTROPIN^. 



Note. — Four genera are placed in this subfamily, and 

 each is represented by one species. The genus Systropus 

 belongs here, and the other three genera are provisionally 

 placed here, and have been placed and suggested in sub- 

 families as follows: — Genus Antoniaustralia in the sub- 

 family Tomoyzinae, Marmasoma in the Toxophorinse, and 

 Eclimus in the Cylleniinse. Becker included the Toxophorinse 

 under the Cylleniinse, and the two Australian species known 

 are too closely related for them to be separated into different 

 subfamilies. 



Genus Systropus, Wiedemann. 



Systropus, Wiedemann, Nov. Dipt. Gen., 1820, p. 18. 



Status. — Under the subfamily Systropinse Becker gives 

 two genera which are characterised as follows: — Systropus, 

 with contiguous eyes in both sexes and the abdomen club- 

 form. Dolichoniyia, with the eyes not contiguous in both 

 sexes and the abdomen not club-form. 



In the species described below the eyes are not con- 

 tiguous in both sexes, and the abdomen is club-form in the 

 male. 



Systropus clavifemoratus, sp. nov. (PI. XVII., figs. 16, 17, 

 18, and 19.) 



Description. — A black and grey species with brownish 

 yellow anterior and intermediate legs; the posterior legs are 

 mostly black with partly yellow tibiae, and the femora are 

 swollen apically, and each has two rows of about ten ventral 

 spines on the swollen part. 



Male. — The head is dark grey with black eyes and ver- 

 tex. The antennas are black and short, about half the length 

 of the head, and they contain a cylindrical first joint with 

 short black hairs; the second joint is about half the length 

 of the first; the third joint is compressed, apically pointed, 

 and about as long as the first. The proboscis is black, about 

 as long as the head, and the palpi are black, long, erect, and 

 reach about as far as the upturned portion of the proboscis. 

 The eyes are approximate near the black ocellar triangle and 

 contiguous near the greyish antennal triangle. The face 



