260 PHLEBOTOM1DJE. 



9. nubila, Meg.; Meig. Zw. i. 107. 9 (1818); Zeit.phalanoides, 

 Scop. ciliatus, Geofl'r. hirta, D. G. ; Retz ; Latr. bombyciformis* 

 Schr. Fusca, cervino-hirta, alls ovatis fnscis albido-maculatis, tibiis apice 

 tarsisque albo-annulatis ; Mas, fasciculo frontis erecto uterrimo antice niveo. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with fawn-coloured hairs (or whitish 

 on the head). Wings with brown hair ; faint brmcnish dots at the forks 

 and at the end of veins ; a lohitish spot near the base, two at tJie anterior 

 margin, one before and one beyond the middle, and several smaller ones 

 towards the hind margin ; fringe fuscous, but dingy -whitish towards the 

 end at the lip of the wing (not throughout, as in Ulomyia hirta). Legs 

 fuscous, with long whitish hairs ; the end of the tibiae, the base and 

 the tip of the first basal joint, and the whole of the third on one side, 

 whitish-glossed. Male. With a recurved spreading tuft of hairs on the 

 front, veiy conspicuous from the colour being snow-white before and 

 intense black behind. 



Very common ; reared from larvae found on fallen leaves im- 

 mersed in the water of pools or slow streams. (E. S. I.) 



10. fusca, Mcq. Tip. N. Fr. 110. 4 (1824) ; H. N. D. i. 165. 6 ; 

 Meig. -phalcenoides, Var. ? Schr. Fuliginosa, alls ovatis postice atro- 

 ciliatis, antennarum basi palpisque atro-hirtis. 



Almost as large as P. nubila. Clothed with sooty hairs, the dark 

 tufts at the forks of the wing scarcely marked, but the two hindmost 

 veins of the margin behind them ciliated with deep black hairs ; the 

 tuft at the base of the costa hoary. Forks at about two-fifths of the 

 length of the wing. Antenna? with fawn-coloured whorls of hair, the 

 first two joints and the palpi thickly clothed with deep black hairs (in 

 the male only??). 



Not common. (I.) 



11. calceata, Meig. Zw. vi. 272. 11 (1830) ; Zett. Nigro-fusca, 

 griseo-villosa, alls ovatis fuliginosis Jimbria apicis tarsorumque articulis 

 extremis albidis. 



Blackish-brown, with cinereous hairs. Wings oval, smoky ; fringe and 

 the apical joints of the tarsi whitish. 



" Resembles the preceding species a good deal, but the fringe, 

 at the tip of the wing is whitish, and the exterior joints of the 

 tarsi are glossed-whitish. My specimen, given me by Mr. Dale, 

 is too much injured to afford additions to Meigen's description." 

 Hal. 



* " I have cited this, on account of the carriage of the wings, rather than Tipitla 

 hirta, Schr. (Fn. B. iii. 82. 2348). This last therefore remains uncertain ; also T. 

 phalatnoides, Schr. (Ins. Austr. 434. 883 ; Fn. B. iii. 82. 2349), since he appears to 

 have understood phalcenoides, L., under his nervosa. The diagnosis of phalanoides, 

 Schr., agrees with hirta, Latr., ciliatus, Geoffr., but, as I have said, the contrast In 

 expressly draws as to carriage of wings seems to exclude it from the synonyms of 

 nubila, Meig." Hal. 



