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Labrum and lingua tawny. Palpi clothed with short black hairs. 

 Wings grey \ stigma brown. Halteres yellow. Legs clothed with 

 short black hairs, beset with black bristles. 

 Generally distributed. (E. S. I.) 



2. vitripennis, Mg. zw. ii. 348. 2 (1820); Ct.; Mq.; Ztt. -fu- 

 nebris v., Fin. Niger, cinereo-suffusus, alls limpidis, tarsis pedibusque 

 anterioribus nonnunquam fuscis. Long. 1| 2 ; alar. 4-4 1- lin. 



Black, with a cinereous covering, thinly clothed with black hairs. 

 Labrum and lingua tawny. Palpi clothed with very short black hairs. 

 Things colourless-, stigma very pale brown. Halteres pale yellow. 

 Legs clothed with short black hairs, beset with black bristles ; tarsi 

 and anterior legs often brown. 



Generally distributed. (E. S. I.) 



3. femoratus, Mir. pr. 2135 (lll^.flampes, Fb. ; Mg. ; Fin. ; 

 Ct. ; Mq. ; Ztt. ; Gr. ! ic. pi. 94. f. 6. Niger, cinereo-suffusus, alls lim- 

 pidis, pedibus fulvis, femoribus tibiisque posticis nigris. Long. If- 2 ; 

 alar. 4-4^ lin. 



Black, with a cinereous covering, thinly clothed with black hairs. 

 Labrum and lingua tawny. Palpi clothed with very short black hairs. 

 Wings colourless; stigma indistinct. Halteres pale yellow. Legs tawny; 

 hind femora and hind tibias black, beset with black bristles, clothed 

 with rather long whitish hairs. 



Generally distributed. (E.S.I.) 



4. fumipennis, Mg. zw. ii. 319. 4 (1820); Ahr. ; Ct. Niger, 

 cinereo-suffusus, alia subfusco-cinereis, pedibus fulvis, femoribus tibiisque 

 posticis nigris. Long. 2 ; alar. 4|- lin. 



Black, with a cinereous covering, thinly clothed with black hairs. 

 Labrum and lingua tawny. Palpi clothed with very short black hairs. 

 Wings pale brownish-grey ; stigma pale brown. Halteres tawny. Legs 

 tawny ; hind femora and hind tibia3 black, beset with black bristles, 

 clothed with rather long whitish hairs. 



Generally distributed. (E. I.) 



* Genus XVII. PLATYPALPUS. 



PLATYPALPUS, Mq. s. n. (1827). Musca p., Fb. Empis p., Fb. Tacliy- 

 dromia p., Mg. ; Fb. ; Fin. ; Ztt. 



Corpus parvum, sa3pe minutissimum, oblongum, glabrum, parum setu- 

 losum. Color corporis niger, fuscus, flavus ; pictura prseter annulos 

 pedum nulla. Caput parvum. Oculi fusci, unicolores, interdum 

 a3neo-micantes, in utroque sexu remoti. Proboscis capite brevior. 

 Palpi compressi, squamaBformes, incumbentes, apice ciliati. Antenna 

 4-articulata3, capite sa3pius breyiores ; articulus tertius ovatus, acutus, 



