194 DIPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. [PART II. 



and small. Front black with a violet, often very bright lustre, 

 immediately above the antenna with a pale copper-reddish spot. 

 The cilia on the inferior orbit pale. The upper side of the thorax 

 often shows violet reflections. The scutellum shining violet, 

 rarely shining black with an indistinct violet lustre. The color 

 of the abdomen is usually more greenish-black. Fore coxas brown- 

 ish-yellow, near the basis blackened ; middle and hind coxse black 

 with brownish-yellow tip. Feet yellowish-red or brownish-red. 

 The extreme tip of the knees blackish-brown and the tarsi from 

 the tip of the first joint black. Sometimes the upper side of the 

 femora is distinctly infuscated. Cilia of the tegulae black. Wings 

 tinged with blackish-gray and with black veins ; the convexity of 

 the wings lies before the first quarter of the last segment of the 

 fourth longitudinal vein. 



Male. Its fore femora are thickened as far as their middle, and 

 on the under side, precisely at the end of this thickening, they are 

 densely bearded with stiff little bristles ; the fore tibia? are visibly 

 stouter than in the female, beset on the under side with numerous 

 and erect, on the upper side with less numerous and less erect 

 bristles ; fore tarsi with unusually long hairs, especially on their 

 first two joints. The structure of the middle femora is similar to 

 that of the fore femora, though their thickening is less strong and 

 reaches as far as the tip ; the thick beard on the under side, formed 

 of short stiff bristles, is thus brought nearer to their end. The 

 middle tibiae are of rather irregular structure ; from the basis to 

 about their middle they are distinctly thickened and fringed on the 

 upper side with a few long black bristles, on the under side they 

 are provided with a small tubercle, beset with short bristles. That 

 part of the middle tibiae, which is not thickened, is of a plain struc- 

 ture, though beset on the under side with a row of rather long, 

 black, bristle-like hairs. The middle tarsi and the whole hind 

 feet are of a plain structure. 



Hab. Pennsylvania. (Osten-Sacken.) 



2. C. claild icaiis, nov. sp. and 9 Olivaceus, facie ochraceJl, 

 alis infuscatis, punctum nigrum in ultimo venae quarts? segmento geren- 

 tibus, coxis anticis ex testaceo fuscis, pedibus ex rufo testaceis. 



. Tibiis intermediis orassissimis, varis, supra nigro-spinulosis, tarsis in- 

 termediis totis nigris, articulo primo crasso, recurvo, supra nigro-setoso, 

 tarsis anticia posticisque simplicibns, in<1e ab articuli primi apice nigris. 



9 . Pedibus simplicibus, tarsis omnibus imle ab articuli primi apice nigris. 



