FAM. EMPIDID/E I4I 
fine pubescence, last sternites of male sometimes deformed, pygidium robust, short, penis thick and 
hidden, ovipositor suddenly narrowed, styles long and slender. Legs rather stout, hind femora strong, 
flexor femoral setule present. Wings with complete neuration, no basal seta, third vein ending a little 
before wing-tip, discal cell rather pointed, anal vein reaching margin, axillar incision rectangular or 
acute. 
Tyne species : Emfis nitida, Meigen, by Bezzi's designation. 
The following species are to be located in this subgenus : E. bistorte, Meig., humilis, Coq., 
monticola, Lw., scoparia, Coq., tersa, Coq., tumida, Meig. and varies, Lw. 
SuBGENUS ARGYRANDRUS, BEZzZI 
Characters. — Rather small, yellow, bare species with few bristles, the males with silvery 
pruinosity. Head round, eyes of male broadly contiguous, the upper facets large, of female narrowly 
separated, front of female sparsely hairy; first antennal joint not lengthened, third rather elongate; 
proboscis a little longer than the head. Prothorax very small, notum bare except for the bristles, no 
acrostichals, seven or eight strong uniseriate dorsocentrals, one humeral, one posthumeral, no noto- 
pleural, two presutural, one supra-alar; no propleural and a few metapleural black hairs, four scutellars, 
the middle ones crossed. Abdomen of male with fine bristles before the incisures, lacking in the 
female; pygidium small, closed, styles of female long. Legs long, slender, rather bare and with few 
setze, simple in both sexes. Wings with complete neuration, rather broad, similar in both sexes, axillar 
incision rectangular but not deep, discal cell large, rather blunt, third vein straight, ending at apex, 
cilia of calypteres long and pale. 
Type species : Enjis dispar, Scholtz, by Bezzi's designation. E. lamellicornis, Becker belongs 
here. The American species cafíus, Coquillett, and vaginifer, Melander may be assigned here, but they 
are different from the European species. 
SuBcGENUS COPTOPHLEBIA, BEzzi 
Characters. — Small, black or grayish, pubescent and setose species, sometimes differing 
greatly in the sexes. Head globose, occiput little setose; proboscis long, palpi small; eyes of male 
broadly contiguous, the upper facets larger than the lower, of female widely separated; antennz rather 
short, basal joints about equal. Prothorax small; notum bare of hairs except at sides, acrostichals 
biseriate, rarely absent, central dersocentrals biseriate, the posterior three or four stronger and 
uniseriate; one longer and several shorter humerals, one each of posthumeral, notopleural, supra-alar 
and presutural bristles, two cruciate scutellars; propleural and metapleural sete numerous. Pygidium 
small. Hind legs lengthened, usually feathered in female, front and hind metatarsi of male more or 
less thickened. "Wings with acute axillar incision and well developed anal lobe, discal cell blunt, 
fourth and usually anal vein shortened, second submarginal cell large; calypteres long-ciliate. 
Type species: Epis hyalipennis, Fallen, by Bezzi's designation. The species are more abundant 
in America and the Orient than in Europe, the following being referable to this subgenus: E. abbreviata 
Lw., albinervis, Meig., albipennis, Meig., asema, Mel., ceylonica, Bez., clausa, Coq., conflueus, Beck., coracina, 
Bez., corcyrica, Bez., distans, Lw., dolorosa, Wh.-Mel., florisomma, Lw., hirticrus, n. sp. (hirtipes, Coq.), 
Hoffmansseggit, L'w., hystrichobyga, Bez., inclinata, Bez., 7acobsoni, Meij., labiata, Lw., leptomorion, Bez., 
melaena, Bez., papuana, Bez., patagiata, Bez., Pavesii, Bez., pilimana, Liw., plorans, Bez., sauteriana, Bez., 
squamipes, Coq., spiloptera, Wied., tenuinervis, Bez., totipennis, Bell., velutina, Bez. and volucris, Meig. 
