258 PHLEBOTOMIDyE. 



before its fork, and cubital on the same line, with black hairs; the 

 alternate veins beyond the middle with black hairs ; margin densely cilia- 

 ted. Halteres brown. Hairs of the antennas and oj the abdomen plum- 

 beous, very shining ; the whorls in certain aspects with yellowish lustre, 

 and varied with purple, brownish at the base. The simple uuguiculi 

 of the upper forceps acute ; those of the lower forceps double, equal, 

 nearly straight, obtusely subcapitate. 



Very rare. Found by Mr. Haliday at Holywood and at Dublin. 



4. ocellaris, Meig. Klass. i. 44. 4 (1804.) ; Zw. i. 105. 4. pi. 3. 

 f. 14; Mcq.; Zett. variegata, Mcq. Tip. D. N. Fr. hirta? L.; Gmel.; 

 Lam. Albo-hirta, alls lanceolatis nigro-alboque variis, punctis duobus 

 marginalibus ocellaribus. 



With white hairs. Wings lanceolate, varied with black and white, 

 with two ocellated marginal dots. Head with a clavate appendage hid 

 in a tuft of hair behind each eye. Antennas with the first joint elon- 

 gate-obconical, one-fourth of the length of the entire joints, or about as 

 long as the fore metatarsus ; first and second joints very densely clothed 

 with hair ; a black clavate tuft at the tip of the second ; tufts before 

 the wings very conspicuous. 



Not common. Found by Mr. Haliday at Holywood, Dublin, 

 Cork, and Kerry. 



5. canescens, Meig. Kl. i. 45. 5 (1804); Zw. i. 106. 5; Mcq. 

 Fusca, capite thorace alarumque basi canescentibus, alts lanceolatis disco 

 uigro-bipunctatis ; Mas, antennarum basi palpinque atro-hirtis. 



Scarcely as large as P. phalaenoides. Hairs hoary on the head, 

 thorax, and first half of the wing, dusky elsewhere. Wings with 

 the forks clothed with blacker hairs, making two spots in the middle 

 or an interrupted band, another dot near the base, the ends of the veins 

 also dark, fringe dusky ; darker at the fore edge, but lighter or fawn- 

 coloured at the base (humeral) and in front of the apex. Legs dusky, 

 with the whitish scales at the joints very inconspicuous. Antenna; 

 with spreading whorls of fawn-coloured hairs. Male. Antennae nearly 

 as long as the body, the whorls very long ; the first two joints and the 

 palpi thickly clothed with black hairs. Fern. Borer short, nearly con- 

 cealed by hairs. 



Not uncommon in moist shady groves. (E. I.) 



6. ustulata, Hal. MSS. Cervino-hirta, abdomine tibiis tarsisque 

 fusco-annulatis, alts ovato-lanceolatisfusco-punctatis. 



Size of P. phaleenoides, larger than the others of this section. Clothed 

 with fawn-coloured hairs, the abdomen with interrupted blackish bands. 

 Antenna? ferruginous, with the globose base of the joints after the 

 second dusky, the whorls of hairs yellowish. Wings ovate-lanceolate, 

 with dusky dots, viz. several in a triple transverse series in the first 

 half ; two on the forks ; the rest at the ends of the veins ; fringe 

 chequered dusky and pale ; forks of the veins beyond the middle of 



