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ceding. Wings quite colourless, very transparent; veins black, yellow 

 towards the base. Halteres yellow. Legs yellow ; tips of the tarsi 

 brown ; middle femora thick ; middle tibiae curved. 

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



32. annulatus, Fin. emp. 7. 2 (1815); Mg. ; Mq. ; Ztt. Cine- 

 reus, capite cano antice albo, antennis nigris basi fulvis, pectore cano, 

 alis limpidis, abdornine nigro, pedibus fulvis, femoribus tibiis apice 

 tarsorumque articulis plerumque apice nigris. Long. 1^-1^; alar. 

 3-3| lin. 



Cinereous, Head hoary, clothed behind with white hairs ; epistoma 

 shining white. Proboscis black. Palpi yellow. Antennae black, pu- 

 bescent ; first and second joints tawny ; third conical, a little longer 

 than the first and the second ; fourth longer than all the preceding 

 joints. Thorax hoary beneath. Wings colourless ; veins yellow, 

 brown towards the tips ; fourth longitudinal vein inclined towards the 

 third. Halteres yellow. Abdomen black, shining. Legs tawny; 

 anterior femora mostly black ; hind femora slightly tinged with black, 

 sometimes quite black ; middle femora very thick ; middle tibiae curved ; 

 tips of the hind tibice and of the joints of the tarsi black, the latter, 

 especially the hind pair, sometimes all black excepting the base. Male. 

 Fore femora and fore tibiae thick ; fore tibiae black at the tips, some- 

 times all black excepting, the base. 



Generally distributed. (E. S. I.) 



33. minutus, Mg. zw. iii. 76. 20 (1822); Mq. ; Ztt. annula- 

 tus var. /3, Fin. Niger, capite thoracis lateribus pectoreque cam's, 

 alis limpidis, pedibus fulvis, femoribus nigro-cinctis, tibiis poster iori- 

 bus basi apiceque nigris, tarsis flavis nigro-cinctis. Long. 1-1 i; alar. 

 2-2i lin. 



Black, shining. Head hoary. Palpi yellow. Third joint of the 

 antennae conical, nearly as long as the first and the second ; fourth as 

 long as all the preceding. Thorax hoary on each side and beneath. 

 Wings colourless ; veins black, yellow at the base ; third and fourth 

 longitudinal veins very slightly converging towards the tips. Halteres 

 tawny ; femora black, tawny at the base and at the tips ; middle femora 

 thick ; fore femora rather thick ; tibia tawny ; posterior tibiae black at 

 the base and at the tips ; middle tibiae curved, sometimes black ; tarsi 

 yellow; tips of the joints black. Male. Fore tibiae thick. 



Generally distributed. (E. I.) 



34. castanipes? Mg. zw. iii. 79. 26 (1822). Cinereus, antennis 

 nigris, alis limpidis, abdornine pedibusque nigris, tibiis posterioribus 



fuscis, tarsis basi tibiisque anticis fulvis. Long. 1 ; alar. 2|- lin. 



Grey. Proboscis black. Palpi yellow. Antennae black; third 

 joint conical, as long as the first and the second ; fourth a little longer 

 than the third. Wings colourless ; veins black, tawny at the base ; 

 third and fourth longitudinal veins slightly inclined towards each other. 



