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Characters. — Opaque blackish species with robust hind legs. Head globose, eyes of both 
sexes widely separated, face vertically oblong, with sparse lateral hairs, occiput with few hairs; antennz 
aslong as the head or longer, located above the middle, basal joint with short fine setz, third joint 
much lengthened, narrow, gradually tapering, ending in a short style which is tipped with a small 
bristle; proboscis about as long as the head, vertical, palpi porrect, rather long, cylindrical, curving 
upward, pilose and hairy. Bristles of the thorax weak, no humeral, about three notopleurals, 
acrostichal setule very short, biseriate but the rows distant, dorsocentral setulae numerous and short, 
lateral setulee sparse but evident, scutellum with several variable bristles; pleure bare. Abdomen of 
female often blunt and with the terminal segments retracted, pits of the second segment small; epipygium 
with compressed ventral keel, all its valves acute. Legs bare of bristles or nearly so, front coxe rather 
lengthened, hind femora lengthened and thickened, sometimes thorny beneath, hind tibiz shortened, 
sometimes geniculate next to the knee. Costa enclosing the entire wing, anal angle broadly rounded, 
not prominent, no basal bristle, auxiliary vein evanescent at the end, fork of the third vein short and 
oblique, anal vein reaching halfway along the narrow anal cell, anal vein rather more distinct than 
usual, almost attaining the margin, detached from the anal cell, no alula. 
Type species : H. Gayi, Macquart, the original species. 
Geographical distribution. — The distribution of Haflomera is subtropical, all of the species 
known coming from South America. 
1. H. argentata, Philippi, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, Vol. 15, p. 758[1865] Chile. 
» (Pachymeria); Bezzi, Ann. Mus. Hungar. Vol. 3, p. 448 (1905); 
Nova Acta Akad. Naturf. Halle, Vol. 9r, p. 373 (1909). 
. H. brachygastra, Philippi, Verh. Zool..bot. Ges. Wien, Vol. r5, p. 759 | Chile. 
[1865] (Pachymeria); Bezzi, Ann. Mus. Hungar. Vol. 3, p. 448 
(1905); Nova Acta Akad. Naturf. Halle, Vol. 91, p. 374 (1909). 
. H. chilensis, Bezzi, ibidem, Vol. 9r, p. 374 (1909). Chile. 
. H. fulvibes, Philippi, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, Vol. 15, p. 760 [1865] Chile. 
(Pachymeria); Bezzi. Ann. Mus. Hungar. Vol. 3, p. 448 (1905); 
Nova Acta Akad. Naturf. Halle, Vol. gr, p. 374 (1909). 
5. H. Gayi, Macquart, Dipt. Exot. Vol. r, p. 279 (Aflomera), pl. 13, f. 4 Chile. 
[1838] (Anodontina); Blanchard, Gay, Hist. Chile (Zool.), Vol. 7, 
p. 374 [1852] (Aplomera); Philippi, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 
Vol. 15, p. 758 [1865] (Aplomera); Bezzi, Ann. Mus. Hungar. Vol. 3, 
p. 458 (1905); Nova Acta Akad. Naturf. Halle, Vol. 9r, p.373 (1909). 
6. H. gymnopoda, Bezzi, Ann. Mus. Hungar. Vol. 3, p. 448 (1905); Nova Peru. 
Acta Akad. Naturf. Halle, Vol. 9r, p.374 (1909). — PI. 6, Fig. 58. 
7. H . modesta, Philippi, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, Vol. 15, p. 759 [1865] Chili. 
(Pachymeria); Bezzi, Ann. Mus. Hungar. Vol. 3, p. 448 (1905); Nova 
Acta Akad. Naturf. Halle, Vol. 9r, p. 373 (1909). 
. H. notogramma, Bezzi, Ann. Mus. Hungar. Vol. 3, p. 449 (1905); Nova Bolivia. 
Acta Akad. Naturf. Halle, Vol. 9r, p. 374 (1909). 
9. H. nudipes, Macquart, Dipt. Exot. Vol. 1, p. 277, pl. 13, f. 2 [1838] (Empis) ; Chile. 
Blanchard, Gay, Hist. Chile (Zool.), Vol. 7. p. 373 [1852] (Empis); 
Philippi, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, Vol. 15, p. 753 [1865] (Empfis); 
Bezzi, Nova Acta Akad. Naturf. Halle, Vol. 9r, p. 373 (1909). 
10. H. obscurata, Philippi, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, Vol. 15, p. 759[1865] Chile. 
(Pachymeria) ; Bezzi, Ann. Mus. Hungar. Vol. 3, p. 448 (1905); Nova 
Acta Akad. Naturf. Halle, Vol. 91, p. 373 (1909). 
II. H. obscuripennis, Philippi, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, Vol. 15, p. 759 Chile. 
[1865] (Pachymeria); Bezzi, Ann. Mus. Hungar. Vol. 3, p. 448 
(1905); Nova Acta Akad. Naturf. Halle, Vol. 91, p. 373 (1909). 
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