MICROPHORUS. ]13 



partly pale. Abdomen glabrous, pale beneath. Tips of the hind 

 femora brown. 



Generally distributed. (E. I.) 



2. minuta, Fin. d. s. emp. 32. 40 (1815); Mg.~ -flavipes, Ztt. 

 ti&ialis? Mq. d. i. 321. 1. rii/ipes? Mq. zw. Nigra, antennis 

 fuscis, alts limpidis ad costam fuscis, pedibus fulvis, tibiis ssepissime 

 tarsisque fuscis. Long, li-lf ; alar. 3-3^ lin. 



Black, shining, thinly clothed with tawny hairs. Proboscis and 

 antenna brown. Wings colourless, more or less tinged with brown beneath 

 the fore border ; transverse vein more oblique than that of (E. stig- 

 matella; stigma brown. Halteres yellow. Legs tawny; tarsi and 

 posterior tibia? brown. Var. Fore tibiae brown. Var. Hind tibia) 

 tawny. 



Not very common. (E. S. I.) 



Genus XII. MICROPHORUS. 



MICROPHORUS, Mq. d. n. (1827); Ztt. Trichina, Mg. Platypeza 

 p., Mg. (Edalea p., Ztt. 



Corpus minutum, vel minutissimum, glabriculum, nitidum. Color 

 niger. Oculi connexi. Proboscis capite brevior, subocculta. Palpi 

 cylindrici. Antenna 5-articulatae, capite longiores ; articuli primus 

 et secundus brevissimij contigui ; tertius longissiinus, conicus, com- 

 pressus, quinto louyior; quartus brevissimus; quintus brevis, stylatus. 

 Thorax gibbus. Alarum vena cubitalis simplex ; venae externo-media 

 3. Pedes aut simplices aut tibiis posticis dilatatis ; coxa femoribus 

 breviores ; tibia postica recta, femoribus non breviores. 

 Mas. Anus obtusus. 

 Fcem. Anus acutus. 



Body black, small, or very small, smooth, shining. Eyes red, con- 

 nected. Proboscis shorter than the head, almost hidden. Palpi cylin- 

 drical. Antennae 5-jointed, somewhat longer than the head ; first 

 and second very short, approximate ; third very long, conical, com- 

 pressed, longer than the fifth ; fourth very short ; fifth short, stylate. 

 Thorax gibbous. Whigs lanceolate ; cubital vein simple ; externo~ 

 medial veins 3, arising from a discal areolet. Legs either simple or 

 with dilated hind tibiae. Coxa shorter than the femora ; hind tibia 

 straight, shorter than the femora. 

 Male. Tip of the abdomen obtuse. 

 Fern. Tip of the abdomen acute. 



This genus differs from (Edalea by the conical third joint of 

 the antennae, by the longer and more distinct seta, arid by the 

 simple and unarmed hind femora. The Microphori appear in 



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