356 Mr. A. H. Haliday’s Descriptions of Dipterous Insects. 
1. regius. Meig. 1V, 60, 1. 
Fabr. Syst. Antl. 267, 5. 
{ I have seen one female taken on the coast near Belfast, and now in 
the cabinet of Mr. G. C. Hyndman. ] 
2. viridis. Meig. IV, 60, 2. 
| One male taken in Holywood.] 
3. mnotatus. Meig. IV, 62, 6. 
Fabr. Syst. Antl. 269, 10. 
I have met with this species from June to September, in Cheshire, 
Cumberland, and about Holywood. ]} 
4. formosus. M. fusco-zneus, hypostomate aureo, pedibus viridibus 
geniculis testaceis; antennis tarsisque nigris. ( Femina.) 
Long. corp. vix 3. Exp. alar. 64. 
Hypostoma fuscum aureo versicolor : Palpi nigri: Barba candido-sericea : 
Thorax fusco-zneus dorso magis virescens, lineis setigeris splendide 
cupreis: Abdomen viridi-subaureum ad Jatera tesselato-pubescens forma 
tereti fere ut in M. regio: Halteres pallide ferruginei : Ale hyaline radice 
dilute ferruginez nervura transversa sinuata et 4ta longitudinali determi- 
nate flexuosa: Pedes nitidi virides tarsis nigris femoribus auratis summo 
apice et tibiarum basi pallide testaceis. 
One female taken in Cheshire, September, 1828.] 
5. bipunctatus. Meig. IV, 63, 7. 
One female on the coast near Holywood, March, 1829.] 
6. conspersus. M. fusco-eneus, hypostomate aureo, femoribus 
rubineis, alis antice punctis postice lituris fuscis. (Mas. ) 
Long. corp. 12. 
Frons et vertex atri cupreo variantes: Thorax fusco-eneus lineis 2 
nigricantibus, postice ad Jatera rubineo splendens: Abdomen longiuscu- 
lum fusco-cupreum splendore rubineo obductum : Pectus, latera abdominis, 
postscutellum et coxe schistaceo-sericate : Femora rubinea: Tibiz eneo- 
virides : Tarsi nigri: Ale obscure hyaline punctis fusco-ferrugineis serie 
duplici prope costam plerumque gemellatim dispositis et preeterea nebulis 
dilutius fuscis versus marginem posticum: Nervura 4'* subsinuata puncto 
solitario distinctiore: _Hypopygium absconditum. 
q A single male on the coast, Holywood, July 1828.) 
Oss. Sub M. nebuloso, Meig. TV, 9, character specificus augendus 
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