FAM. EMPIDID/E 
Steiermark, Graz, Vol. 29, p. 108 (1892); Bezzi, Arch. Zool. Expér. 
Paris (5), Vol. 8, p. 5o (1911). 
? ambigua, Macquart, Dipt. N. France, Vol. 3, p. 94 [1827] (Platypalpus); Hist. 
Nat. Dipt. Vol. 1, p. 351 (1834); Schiner, Fauna Dipt. Austr. Vol. 1, 
p. 92 (1862). 
? curvipes, Meigen, Syst. Beschr. Vol. 3, p. 75 [1822] (Tachydromia). 
exilis, Macquart, Dipt. N. France, Vol. 3, p. 88, part (1827). 
fascipes, Roser, Correspondenzbl. Landw. Ver. Würtemb. Stuttgart, Vol. 1, 
P- 954 (1840). 
nigra, Fallen, Dipt. Suec. Emp. p. 8 [1815] (Taehydromia) ; Schiner, Fauna 
Dipt. Austr. Vol. 1, p. 9o [1862] (Platypalpus). 
15. D. inermis, Melander, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. Vol. 11. p. 194 (1918). 
16. D. infumata, Melander, ibidem, Vol. 11, p. 194 (1918). 
17. D. levis, Becker, Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Sc. St. Pétersb. Vol. 18, p. 84 
(1913). 
18. D. latipennis, Melander, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. Vol. 28, p. 209, pl. 5, 
f. 11. 19 (1902); Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. Vol. 11, p. 189 (1918). 
19. D. micropyga, Melander, ibidem, Vol. 11, p. 195 (1918). 
20. D. *mortua, Meunier, Ann. Sc. Nat. (Zool.) Vol. 7, p. 97 (1998). 
21. D. naica, Melander, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. Vol. 11, p. 195 (1918). 
22. D. nigripes, Zetterstedt, Dipt. Scand. Vol. 13, p. 4997 (1859); Wahlgren, 
Ent. Tidskr. Vol. 31, p. 87 (1910). ; 
23. D. filosa, Melander, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. Vol. 1r, p. 196 (1918). 
24. D. procurrens, nov. sp. (1). 
25. D. pusilla, Loew, Neue Beitr. Dipt. Vol. 6, p. 36 (1859); Schiner, Fauna 
Dipt. Austr. Vol. 1, p. 96(1862); Becker, Mitteil. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 
Vol. 4, p. 42 (1908); Strobl, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, Vol. 59, 
p. 179 (1909); Lundbeck, Dipt. Dan. Vol. 3, p. 259, f. 117 (1910); 
Dahl, Fauna Chorin, p. 465 (1912); Frey, Acta Soc. Sc. Fenn. 
Helsingfors, Vol. 37 (3), p. 71 (1913). 
exilis, Zetterstedt (not Meigen), Fauna Ins. Lappon. p. 554, part (1838); 
Dipt. Scand. Vol. 1, p. 328 (1842) ; ibidem, Vol. 8, p. 3o12 (1849). 
minima, Zetterstedt (not Meigen), Dipt. Scand. Vol. rz, p. 327 (1842). 
var. fumipennis Strobl, Mem. Soc. Esp. N. Hist. Vol. 3, p. 312 (1906). 
26. D. rotundicornis, Brunetti, Rec. Indian Mus. Vol. 9, p. 38 (1913); Fauna 
Brit. India, Dipt. Vol. r, p. 383, pl. 4, f. 25 (1920). 
27. D. rufibes, Brunetti, Rec. Indian Mus. Vol. 9, p. 38 (1913); Fauna Brit. 
India, Dipt. Vol. 1, p. 383 (1920). 
28. D. sefulosa, Melander, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. Vol. 11, p. 196 (1918). 
29. D. trichura, Melander, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. Vol. 11, p. 197 (1918). 
3o. D. xanthopbyga, Bezzi, Ann. Mus. Hungar. Vol. 2, p. 352 (1904). Vol. 1o, 
p- 479, 485 (1912). 
3o9 
Panama. 
British Columbia. 
N. Africa. 
C. United States. 
W. United States. 
Baltic Amber. 
W. United States. 
N. Europe. 
C. United States. 
Costa Rica. 
C. & N. Europe, Canary 
Islands. 
Spain. 
India. 
Bengal. 
W. North America. 
Texas 
New Guinea. 
(1) Drapetis (s. str.) procurrens, nov. sp. — Male. Length i.4mm. Body including pleure shining black, hairs 
and bristles of head and thorax black, legs entirely yellow, unarmed, third vein diverging from fourth, antenne yellowish, 
Frontrather narrowly V-shaped; face obliterated except at clypeus; third antennal joint slightly darkened, triangular, nearly 
two times long as broad, the blackish arista micropubescent but not as densely so as in divergens, two and one-half times 
length of antenna; palpi large, oval, whitish, proboscis dark. "Thoracic pubescence closely and uniformly distributed, 
lateral scutellar bristles half length. — Third abdominal segment chitinized laterally, with flattened setulze, pygidium large, 
contorted, the valves terminally fringed, a long curled brown penis exserted. No pronounced bristles on legs, hind tibiz 
with small brush-like termination. —Halteres yellow; calypteres dark, with black fringe. "Wings hyaline, veins brown, third 
vein nearly uniformly diverging from fourth, the costal sections proportioned 1 : 2 : 1.5, sections of fourth vein, 1 : 0.7 : 4, of 
- fifth vein, 1:09. 
Holotype, received from Pablo Schild, La Suiza de Turrialba, Costa Rica. 
