232 CIIIEONOMIDjE. 



sionally yellowish; second joint long. Thorax pale grey, with two 

 f//-//ies and two spots q/* a coffee-brown colour ; the spots are behind the 

 stripes, which are occasionally interrupted. Scutellum sometimes more 

 or less tawny. Metathorax and abdomen blackish-broicn, the latter with 

 ir It it Mi suturi'*. Wings limpid ; veins pale brown, llalteres tawny, 

 with blackish-brown knobs. Legs tawny, more or less blackish-brown 

 at the tips of the femora, of the tibiae, and of the joints of the tarsi ; 

 these bands as usual are broader on the femora than on the tibiae, and 

 on the hind legs than on the fore legs ; fore femora armed with seven- 

 teen spines ; middle femora with four ; hind femora with three ; hind 

 plantic with a stout bristle on the side. Male. Antennae blackish- 

 brown, their plumes with a yellowish glistening. Fern. Antennae brown, 

 generally with yellow bands, yellowish at the base; joints from the 

 first to the eighth oval, almost cylindrical ; from the ninth to the thir- 

 teenth elliptical, very long; first joint elongated before the middle; 

 second and six following elongated beyond the middle. Wings slightly 

 yellowish towards the costa. 

 Generally distributed. (E.) 



64. tibialis, Meig. Zw. i. 82. 36 (1818); Stseg. ; Us.; Zett. ; 

 Winn. ! Linn. Ent. vi. pi. 8. f. 62. apicalis ? Roser, Fee in. niyer, ni- 

 tidus, facie, palpis antennisque nigro-fuscis, alls subfuscescentibus apud 

 costam obscurioribus, venis fnscis apnd costam nigro-fuscis, abdomine 

 basi subcontracto, pedibus fulvis, femoribus tibiisqne apice fuscis, tarsis 

 albo-flavis apice nigris, tibiis posticis nigris. Long. If ; alar. 3 lin. 



Fern. Black, sliming. Face, palpi, and antennas blackish-brown ; 

 joints of the latter from the first to the eighth oval, almost cylindrical, 

 somewhat straightened beyond the middle ; from the ninth to the thir- 

 teenth elliptical, much elongated. Wings somewhat brownish, darker 

 towards the costa ; veins brown, blackish-brown in front. Halteres 

 black ; petioles occasionally yellowish-white. Legs tawny ; tarsi whitish- 

 yellow ; fourth and fifth joints with black tips, wholly black in the 

 hind tarsi ; anterior knees and tips of the anterior tibiae brown ; hind 

 femora for one-third of the length from the tips, and the whole of the 

 hind tibia?, black ; fore femora and hind femora somewhat incrassated ; 

 fore femora with ten spines, middle femora with two, and hind femora 

 with four; plant;e with five pair of spines ; ungues stout. 



Generally distributed. (E. S. I.) 



65. fasciatus, Meig. Zw. i. 79. 27 (1818); Mcq.; Stfeg.; Blanch.; 

 Zett.; Winn.! Linn. Ent. vi. pi. 8. f. 63. cingulatns, Meig.; Us. 

 marginatus, Steph. ; Curt.! B. E. 285. Foem. palUde ci/terctts, palpis 

 fulvis aut nigro-fuscis, antcnnis nigro-fuscis, articulis inferioribns basi 

 saepissime fulvis, thorace vittis tribus fuscis, scutello soape plus minu.s\e 

 fidvo, metathorace nigro-fusco, alis hyalinis, venis pallidis apud costam 

 fuscis, lialteribus albis, abdominis basi apiceque nigro-fuscis, pedibus 

 fulvis plus minusve nigro-fusco variis. Long. 2i-; alar. 5 lin. 



Fern. Front and face grey, blackish-grey, or brown. Palpi tawny 



