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below. Palpi black, clothed with black hairs. Antennae black ; first 

 and second joints clothed with tawny hairs, beset with black bristles. 

 Thorax clothed with short black and tawny hairs, beset on each side 

 and behind with a few black bristles, having 4 brown stripes, the inner 

 pair partly united, the outer pair short and interrupted. Wings grey, 

 colourless at the base and in part of the disc ; veins black, tawny at 

 the base. Halteres tawny. Abdomen clothed with short tawny hairs, 

 beset along each side with a few black and whitish bristles ; hind 

 borders of the segments brown. Legs red, clothed with short pale 

 tawny hairs, armed with black spines ; femora and tibiae striped with 

 black ; a few whitish spines on the hind femora ; ungues red at the 

 base. Male. Tip of the abdomen ferruginous. Fern. Tip of the 

 abdomen black. 



Bare. In the collection of the Entomological Club. (E.) 



9. cingulatus, Fb. s. a. 172. 36 (1805); Shr. ; Mg. ; Fin.; 

 Mq. ; Zll. ; Lw. annulatus, Mq. Cervinus, antennis nigris, thorace 

 subvittato, alis subcinereis, abdomine cano-fasciato, pedibus ferrugineis, 

 tibiis apice femoribusque nigris. Long. 5^ ; alar. 9 liri. 



Dark fawn-colour. Head clothed behind and beneath with white 

 hairs, beset behind the eyes with a fringe of black bristles ; epistoina 

 prominent, thickly beset with white bristles, and more thinly towards 

 the antennae with black bristles. Antennae black ; first and second 

 joints bristly. Thorax clothed with black hairs and bristles, indis- 

 tinctly striped. Wings pale grey, a little darker at their tips. Halteres 

 tawny. Abdomen thinly clothed with short black hairs, not bristly ; a 

 hoary band on the hind border of each segment. Legs ferruginous, 

 clothed with short white hairs; tibiae and tarsi beset with black 

 bristles ; femora and tips of the tibiae mostly black. Male. Appendages 

 of the abdomen ferruginous, shining, curved, not large. 



Rare. (E. I.) 



10. sestivus, Shr. i. A. 996 (1781); Mg.; Mq. ; Zll.; Ztt. 

 niger? Dg. tibialis, Fin. tabidus? Mg. cyanurus, Lw. Nigro- 

 fuscus, antennis nigris, thorace cinereo nigro-quadrivittato, alis limpidis 

 apice subcinereis, abdominis apice nigro, segmentorum marginibus 

 posticis canis, pedibus nigris, tibiis luteis; Mas. abdomine apicem 

 versus cyaneo. Long. 7-8 ; alar. 12-14 lin. 



Blackish-brown. Head covered with pale tawny shining down, 

 clothed on each side of the crown with black hairs, and more thickly 

 beneath with white hairs ; a fringe of black bristles behind the eyes ; 

 epistoma convex, beset above with black bristles, and more thickly 

 below with yellowish-white bristles. Palpi black, clothed with black 

 hairs. Antennae black ; first and second joints clothed with long 

 black hairs. Thorax with 4 rows of black bristles ; its cinereous 

 covering interrupted by 4 black stripes ; the outer pair short, broad 

 and interrupted. Wings colourless, pale grey towards the tips ; veins 



