CEBATOPOGON. 239 



" Found in September at Newcastle/ county Down ; banks of 

 River Doddey, Pirhouse, Dublin, on the sand-hills." Hal. MSS. 

 In Mr. Haliday's collection. (I.) 



80. flavipalpis, Winn. ! Linn. Ent. vi. 80. 77. pi. 8. f. 75 (1852). 

 Foem. niffer, nitidus, palpis flavis, alls hyalinis subfuscescentibus, venis 

 apud costam fuscis, halteribus basi flavescentibus, pedibus nigro-fuscis, 

 tibiis interraediis flavo-cinctis, tarsis albis articulis apice nigris. Long. 

 1 ; alar. 2 lin. 



Fern. Black, shining. Palpi yellow. Antennae shining-black ; joints 

 from the first to the eighth oval, brown at the base ; from the ninth 

 to the thirteenth long, elliptical ; first joint longer by half than the 

 second, contracted in the middle. Wings slightly brownish ; veins 

 towards the costa brownish. Haltered black, their petioles yellowish 

 at the base. Anterior femora yellowish-brown with blackish-brown 

 tips ; hind femora blackish-brown ; fore tibia? brown ; posterior tibiae 

 blackish-brown ; middle tibia? with a yellow band near the tips ; tarsi 

 white, their joints with black tips ; fore femora armed beneath with 

 four spines. 

 (E.?) 



81. calceatus, n. Hal. MSS. "Nigricans, opacus, thorace cano- 

 bilineato, alis nudis albido-hyalinis, areola cubitali unica, halteribus 

 apice fuscis, femoribus anticis subtus bispinosis, tarsis basi albidis. 

 Long. H; alar. 2f lin. 



" Opaque black. Palpi nearly filiform, blackish-brown. Antenna? 

 scarcely as long as the thorax ; second joint short, obscure, the follow- 

 ing globose, then ovate, the last five elongate-elliptical. Thorax above 

 in front with two faint hoary lines, abbreviate at the depression in front, 

 curved (somewhat brokenly) to join the anterior lateral margin, which 

 also is glossed with grey (shifting with the light). Wings whitish- 

 hyaline, naked ; the veins very pale yellowish, almost white ; one cubi- 

 tal areolet, which has its radial and costal (the two anterior) sides about 

 equal. Halteres dusky ferruginous, with dark brown tips. Legs black, 

 or pitchy, the first three joints of the tarsi pale-yellowish, or dingy- 

 white, with a dusky dot at the joints ; fore femora stouter, with two 

 spines below between the middle and the tip ; hind tibia? not strongly 

 ciliated ; ungues with a very minute tooth at the base inside. 



" Pound at Toome Bridge (connecting the counties Antrim and 

 Derry) over the Bann river, near its issue from Lough Neagh. 

 (I.)" Hal. MSS. 



" It resembles the following species, which however may be dis- 

 tinguished from it by the characters here mentioned : 



" C. affinis, Zett. D. Sc. 3656. 37 ; and C. terreus, Meig. Zw. i. 85. 

 44. Ground-colour of the thorax grey, the dark colour restricted to 

 the ordinary lines. 



