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Halteres pale yellow, with white knobs. Legs black ; tibia pale tawny, 

 with black tips. Male. Abdomen with a short tawny stripe on each 

 side near the base. Fern. Abdomen with 3 rows of large indistinct 

 cinereous spots. 



Not common. (E. S.) 



14. alpinus, Shr. f. b. iii. 2534 (1798); Ct. ! b. e. IS.rmticus, 

 Shr. i. a. ; Pz. ; Fin. -fulvus, Mg. ; Mq. ; Ztt. Fuscus, capite cario, 

 antennis luteis basi flams, alis limpidis basi et ad costam subfulvis, abdo- 

 minis lateribus basi fulvis, pedibus fulvis, tarsis anticis nigris. Long. 

 6-7 ; alar. 12-14 lin. 



Brown, thickly clothed with short tawny hairs. Head hoary, clothed 

 in front with yellow hairs. Eyes pale green. Antennae luteous ; first 

 and second joints yellow. Thorax not striped. Wings colourless, with 

 a tawny tinge at the base and thence along two-thirds of the fore 

 border. Halteres yellow, with whitish tips. Abdomen tawny on each 

 side near the base. Legs tawny ; fore tarsi black. 



Not common. (E. S.) 



Genus II. HJEMATOPOTA. 



HJSMATOPOTA, Mg. kl. i. 162 (1804); Fb. ; LI. ; Fin.; Mg. ; Ztt, 

 Tabanus, L. ; Fb. ; Dg. ; Pz. ; Shr. ; Gm. ; Gfr. 



Corpus mediocre, lineare, pubescens. Color obscurus. Ocelli nulli. 

 Palporum articulus secundus conicus. Antenna -articulata, por- 

 rectae, lanceolatae, subretusae ; articulus primus cylindricus, sat 

 longus ; secundus cyathiforrnis, perbrevis ; tertius et sequentes com- 

 pacti, flagellum subulatum fingentes. Ala parallels, deflexte ; areola 

 analis angulo acuto usque in marginem summum interiorem descen- 

 dens. 



Body narrow, linear, generally black or grey. Head contracted, 

 semicircular, somewhat depressed. Eyes depressed. Ocelli none. 

 Mouth projecting. Labrum small, stiff, pointed, as long as the 

 labium. Lingua lanceolate., pointed, as long as the labium. Maxillae 

 curved, acute, as long as the lingua. Labium thick, tumid beneath, 

 channelled above. Antenna Q-jointed, inserted in front of the face, 

 longer than the head; first and second joints bristly; first somewhat long, 

 elliptical or cylindrical; second short, cyathiform; third and three 

 following joints compressed, almost bare ; third attenuated, rather stout, 

 nearly as long as the first ; fourth and fifth small, quadrate ; sixth a 

 little longer, rounded at the tip. Thorax oval, narrower than the head; 

 scutellum semicircular. Wings lanceolate, rather narrow, finely pubes- 

 cent, parallel, deflexed, adorned with ringlets ; anal areolet extending 

 to the border. Alulae small. Halteres uncovered. Abdomen rather 



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