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Halteres pale yellow, with white knobs. Legs black ; tibia pale tawny, 

 with black tips. Male. Abdomen with a short tawny stripe on each 

 side near the base. Fern. Abdomen with 3 rows of large indistinct 

 cinereous spots. 



Not common. (E. S.) 



14. alpinus, Shr. f. b. iii. 2534 (1798); Ct. ! b. e. 78. rmticus, 

 Shr. i. a. ; Pz. ; Fin. -fulvus, Mg. ; Mq. ; Ztt. Fuscm, capite cano, 

 antennis luteis bad flams, alis limpidis basi et ad costam subfulvis, abdo- 

 minis lateribus basi fulvis, pedibus fulvis, tarsis anticis nigris. Long. 

 6-7 ; alar. 12-14 lin. 



Brown, thickly clothed with short tawny hairs. Head hoary, clothed 

 in front with yellow hairs. Eyes pale green. Antennae luteous ; first 

 and second joints yellow. Thorax not striped. Wings colourless, with 

 a tawny tinge at the base and thence along two-thirds of the fore 

 border. Halteres yellow, with whitish tips. Abdomen tawny on each 

 side near the base. Legs tawny ; fore tarsi black. 



Not common. (E. S.) 



Genus II. HJEMATOPOTA. 



H^MATOPOTA, Mg. kl. i, 162 (1804); Fb. ; LI. ; Fin. ; Mg. ; Ztt. 

 Tabanus, L. ; Fb. ; Dg. ; Pz. ; Shr. ; Gm. ; Gfr. 



Corpus mediocre, lineare, pubescens. Color obscurus. Ocelli nulli. 

 Palporum articulus secundus conicus. Antenna Q -articulate, por- 

 rectae, lanceolatse, subretusae ; articulus primus cylindricus, sat 

 longus ; secundus cyathiformis, perbrevis ; tertius et sequentes com- 

 pacti, nagellum subulatum fingentes. Ala parallels, defiexa ; areola 

 analis angulo acuto usque in marginem summum interiorem descen- 

 dens. 



Body narrow, linear, generally black or grey. Head contracted, 

 semicircular, somewhat depressed. Eyes depressed. Ocelli none. 

 Mouth projecting. Labrum small, stiif, pointed, as long as the 

 labium. Lingua lanceolate^ pointed, as long as the labium. Maxillae 

 curved, acute, as long as the lingua. Labium thick, tumid beneath, 

 channelled above. Antenna ^-jointed, inserted in -front of the face, 

 longer than the head; first and second joints bristly; first somewhat long, 

 elliptical or cylindrical; second short, cyathiform; third and three 

 following joints compressed, almost bare ; third attenuated, rather stout, 

 nearly as long as the first ; fourth and fifth small, quadrate ; sixth a 

 little longer, rounded at the tip. Thorax oval, narrower than the head; 

 scutellum semicircular. Wings lanceolate, rather narrow, finely pubes- 

 cent, parallel, deflexed, adorned with ringlets ; anal areolet extending 

 to the border. Alulae small. Halteres uncovered. Abdomen rather 

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