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whitish hairs ; hind borders of the segments hoary, beset with white 

 bristles. Legs black ; femora and tibiae clothed with short white hairs, 

 beset with white bristles ; tarsi beset with black and white bristles. 

 Very rare. In Mr. Stephens' s collection. 



4. forcipatus, L. fn. 1914 (1761); Fb. ; Gm. ; Shr. ; LI. ; 

 Fin. ; Mg. ; Mq. cinereus, Dg.forcipula ? Zll. ; Ztt. Cinereus, an- 

 tennis nigris, thorace fusco-quadrivittato, alis basi et ad costam fulvis 

 ad apices et ad margines posticos cinereis, abdominis apice nigro, 

 pedibus nigris. Long. 8-1; alar. 13 lin. 



Cinereous. Head thickly clothed beneath with pale yellow hairs ; a 

 few black hairs on each side of the crown ; behind the eyes a fringe of 

 white bristles, with which a few black bristles are mixed ; epistoma 

 convex, beset with black bristles above, and with more pale yellow 

 bristles below. Proboscis and palpi black, the latter clothed with 

 tawny hairs. Antenna3 black ; first and second joints clothed with 

 black hairs. Thorax clothed with short black hairs, beset on each 

 side and behind with black bristles, having 4 dark brown stripes ; the 

 middle pair partly united ; the outer pair short, broad, and interrupted. 

 Wings grey towards the tips and along the hind borders, tawny along 

 the fore borders towards the base ; veins black, tawny towards the base 

 and along the fore borders. Halteres tawny. Abdomen clothed with 

 short tawny hairs ; sides of the hind borders of the segments beset 

 with pale yellow bristles ; tip black, shining. Legs black, clothed 

 with tawny hairs, armed with black spines. 



Generally distributed. (E. I.) 



5. fimbriatus, Mg. zw. ii. 320. 20 (1820) ; M.q L .^ilipes? Mg. ; 



Mq. colubrinus ? Hffg. Mg. ; Lw. Cervinus, capite albido, antennis 

 nigris, thorace fusco-vittato, alis sublimpidis, abdominis segmentorum 

 marginibus posticis canis, alis nigris. Long. 9 ; alar. 16 lin. 



Fawn-colour. Head whitish behind and beneath, clothed with white 

 hairs beneath, fringed behind with white bristles and with a very few 

 black bristles ; epistoma rather prominent, beset with white bristles, 

 and towards the antenna with a very few black bristles. Antennae 

 black ; first and second joints beset with black bristles. Thorax thinly 

 clothed with black hairs, beset on each side with a few black bristles 

 and with very few white bristles, having 3 broad brown stripes, the 

 middle stripe divided along the fore half. Wings almost imperceptibly 

 tinged with grey, colour less in the disc and towards the base. Hal- 

 teres yellow. Hind borders of the abdominal segments hoary, beset 

 with white bristles; tip black, shining, compressed. Legs black, 

 shining, clothed with short hoary hairs ; femora and tibiae beset with 

 white bristles ; tarsi beset with black bristles. 



Rare. In the collection of the Entomological Club. (E.) 



6. obscurus, Mg. zw. ii. 315. 12 (1820); M.c[.gonatistes ? 

 Zll. ; Lw. Canus, antennis nigris, tftorace fusco-trivittato, alis sub- 



