ETJCOELA BOIENII. 207 



Continental distribution: Sweden, Germany, Aus- 

 tria, Spain (Dr. Sharp). 



B. Wings not fringed, bare, spotted with fuscous. 



Wings bare, without a hair-fringe round the edge, and spotted with 

 fuscous. Antennae with an 8-jointed club, in <$ considerably longer 

 than the body. Scutellum with a large raised cup, of which the apex 

 projects sharply, the basal fovese large, deep, and separated by a stout 

 keel. Pronotum sharply raised in the middle above the mesonotum 

 into a sharp margin. Radial cellule short, wide = Psilodora, Foerster, 

 l.c.,p. 354. 



A group easily recognised by the fringeless, fuscous 

 marked wings, by their large size and raised pronotum. 

 The legs and antennae are for the greater part reddish. 



Synopsis of Species. 



1 (2) Wings only fuscous tinted below the radial cellule ; cubitus 



obsolete a little beyond the radial cellule. Crassinerva. 



2 (1) Wings fuscous from the basal nervure to the apex ; cubitus 



continued to the apex of the wings. Boienii. 



14. EUCOELA BOIENII. 

 PL X, fig. 3. 



Cothonaspis Boienii, Htg., Germ. Zeit., ii, 200, 2. 



Black, shining ; the base and apex of the femora, the tibiae and tarsi, 

 piceous to fuscous-red ; the flagellum. fuscous ; the wings from the basal 

 nervure fuscous, the base hyaline. ? and <$. 



Length 5 mm. 



Differs from E. crassinerva in being longer and 

 stouter ; in the apical three-fourths of the wings being 

 fuscous tinted ; in the cubitus being continued near to 

 the apex of the wing ; in the legs and flagellum being 

 darker coloured ; in the punctuation on the scutellum 

 being stronger. 



I find this species in cow-dung, probably in search 

 of Dipterous Iarva3. 



