GENUS PTCNOTEICHIA. 163 



4. FlGITES NITENS. 



PL VIII, fig. 6. 



Psilogaster nitens, Htg., Germ. Zeits., iv, 418. 

 Figites coriacea, Dbm., Onyc., 22, 8. 



larvarum, Dbin., 1. c., 21, 7. 



nitens, Reinh., B. E. Z., iv, 235 ; Thorns., Oef., xviii, 415. 



fuscinervis, Gir., Yerh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, x, p. 150. 



Black ; the knees, tibias, and tarsi reddish, the hind tibiae and tarsi 

 (especially towards the apex) infuscated ; flagellum inclining to f uscous, 

 shining, covered sparsely with longish, fuscous hair. Head shining, 

 impunctate, except the face, which is rugose. Thorax shining, pleurae 

 longitudinally aciculate ; scutellum shining, the apex punctured ; the 

 foveae large, deep, longer than broad. Median segment punctured, 

 without teeth or tubercles. Petiole longitudinally striolated ; base of 

 the second segment striated. Wings clear hyaline, the nervures 

 fuscous, the apex ciliated. $ . 



Length 2 3 m.m. 



A smaller species than F. anthomyiarum, differing 

 from it in the antennas being shorter and darker 

 coloured ; the head is more shining, and in no way 

 punctured on the top ; the femora are black ; the tibiae 

 and tarsi much more darkly coloured ; the radial cellule 

 is shorter, and the spurious nervures are more dis- 

 tinctly traced. The $ is easily known from the same 

 sex in anthomyiarum by the last joint of the antennaa 

 being only about three times longer than broad, and 

 not five or six times. 



Rare. Dairy, Ayrshire. 



Continental distribution : Germany, France. 



Genus PYCNOTEICHIA. 



Pycnotrichia, Foer., Yerh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xix, 363 and 366. 



Eyes hairy; cheeks margined. Thorax smooth, shining; parapsidal 

 furrows complete. Scutellum flattish ; smooth in front, rugose behind ; 

 bifoveate at the base; pleurse not separated from the sternum by a 

 ridge. Petiole shining ; second abdominal segment glabrous. Radial 

 cellule closed, elongate ; cubitus and areolet obsolete. Antennae stout, 

 longer than the thorax ; the joints in ? longer than broad. 



Apart from the absence of a longitudinal keel over 

 the mesosternum, this genus does not differ from 

 Figites. 



