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testaceous. Legs dingy testaceous. Coxa; and femora black towards 

 the base ; tibia; darker than the femora ; tarsi black. 

 Hare. (E.) 



3. mycetophiloid.es, Hardy, MSS. Testacea, vertice, antennis, 

 thoracis disco abdominisque dorso nigris, alia subcinereis, abdomine 

 fasciis testaceis, tarsis nigricantibus. Long. 3 ; alar. 5 lin. 



Testaceous. Antenna; black, slender, as long as the thorax, testa- 

 ceous at the base. Disc of the thorax black. Wings greyish. Halteres 

 with tawny knobs. Legs testaceous ; tarsi blackish. Abdomen black 

 above, intermediate part with some testaceous bands. 



Not common. (E. S.) 



4. nigriceps, n. Lutea, capite antennisque nigris, alia subcinereis 

 apice paullo obscnrioribus, abdomine nonnunquam vitta tenui nigra, tarsis 

 nigricantibus. Long. 2-3 ; alar. 4-6 lin. 



Pale luteous. Head and antennae black, the latter rather slender, 

 shorter than the thorax. Wings slightly greyish, with a grey apical 

 streak along the cubital vein. Abdomen occasionally with a slender 

 black dorsal stripe. Tarsi blackish. 



Not rare. (E.) 



5. laticornis, Meig. ! Zw. i. 238. 13. pi. 8. f. 19 (1818); Staeg. 

 Testacea, vertice, antennis abdomineque piceis, thorace vittis tribus fer- 

 rugineis, alls subcinereis macula subcostali apicibusque fuscis, halteribus 

 apice trochanteribus tarsisque fuscis. Long. 5 ; alar. 8 lin. 



Testaceous. Vertex of the head and antennae piceous, the latter tes- 

 taceous at the base. Thorax with three broad ferruginous stripes ; meta- 

 thorax with a large ferruginous spot. Wings slightly grey'ish, with a 

 brown spot near the costa at a little beyond the middle, and with brown 

 tij)-s. Halteres with brown knobs. Abdomen piceous. Femora pale 

 testaceous ; tibia; darker ; trochanters and tarsi brown. 



Eare. In the British Museum. (E.) Zetterstedt supposes it 

 to be the male of P. lineata. 



6. vitripennis, Steph. MSS. Nigra, cano-tomentosa, palpis ful- 

 vis, alls sublimpidis, halteribus testaceis apice nigricantibus, pedibus 

 testaceis, tarsis fuscis. Long. 3|; alar. 5 lin. 



Black, shuuug, slightly covered with hoary tomentum. Palpi tawny. 

 Antenna; hardly so long as the thorax. Wings nearly limpid. Halteres 

 testaceous, with blackish knobs. Legs testaceous ; tibiae darker than 

 the femora ; tarsi brown. 



Not common. (E. I.) 



7. lineata, F. Sp. Ins. ii. 420. 4 (1781); Meig.; Zeti.strlrtta, 

 Gmel. Fnlva, vertice antennisque piceis, palpis testaceis, thorace non- 

 nunquam fusco-trivittato, alls subcinereis fascia ittterrupta apicibusque 

 fuscis, halteribus testaceis apice fuscis, abdomine fusco nonnunquam 

 fasciis testaceis, pedibus testaceis, tarsis fuscescentibus. Long. 4 ; alar. 

 6 lin. 



