THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Fig. 33.— Henops. 



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Fig. 34. — Oncodes. 



Fig. 35. — Laphria. 



Fig. 3C. — Dasypogon. 



Several of the Stratiomydac, such as Nemotelus, are of slow 

 and feeble flight, but Acrocera, Oncodes and Henops are still 

 more weak on the wing, as may be supposed by the structure 

 here represented, and their other movements are also very 

 inactive. In Cyrtus, on the contrary, the bones are much 

 more numerous, and extend to the border of the wing : the 

 first branch of the pobrachial joins the bone that is between 

 it and the second branch, and thus there is a closed areolet 

 behind the discal, forming one of the four externo-medial 



