30 MYCETOPHILID^E. 



8. trimaculata? Mcq. H. N. D. i. 132. 18 (l&3I).picta? Meig. 



"Lutea, antennis fuscis, thorace vittis duabus nigricantibus, alls hyali- 

 nis, maculis duabus et fascia ante apicem fuscis, abdomine fasciis dor- 

 salibus fuscis, femoribus posticis apice summo tarsisque fuscis. Long. 

 2 ; alar. 4 lin." Hal. MSS. 



"It may possibly be a variety of L.fasciola, Meig., as Zetterstedt 

 mentions the brownish cloud upon the second forked vein (but not the 

 middle spot in the anterior fork). 



" Luteous. Vertex and front brownish -cinereous, clothed with long 

 pale decumbent hairs. Ocelli three, in a line, the outer two near the 

 eyes. Palpi pale, almost reaching the tips of the coxse; the apical 

 joints longer and more slender. Antenna brown towards the base, 

 beneath with the whole of the first and second joints ferruginous. 

 Thorax slightly shining, clothed with pale hairs, and having two abbre- 

 viated dorsal blackish stripes. Wings hyaline, with a sinuated, brown, 

 subapical band, which is broader in front; a brown spot extending 

 between the prasbrachial vein and the median transverse veinlet into 

 the fork of the praebrachial vein ; subanal vein, or hind branch of the 

 pobrachial vein, bordered with brown ; veins arranged like those of L. 

 Winthemi, but the origin of the cubital vein is further from the tip of 

 the radial vein, the brachial areolet is narrower, and the fork of the 

 praebrachial vein is a little shorter, but that of the pobrachial is much 

 longer. Halteres pale. Abdomen yellowish-green (lutescent when 

 dried), brown above, excepting a narrow band on the base of each seg- 

 ment (or with six dorsal brown bands dilated in the middle). Legs 

 pale yellow ; hind femora with brown tips ; tibia3 with yellowish spurs 

 and with black spines ; tarsi brown, yellowish at the base ; fore tarsi 

 thrice the length of the fore tibiae." Hal. MSS. 



Rare. Pound in September at Holywood, near Belfast, and at 

 Blarney, Cork. In Mr. Haliday's collection. (I.) 



9. analis, Meig. Zw. i. 257. 9 (1818). dubia, Meig. Kl. ; Zw. 

 nasuta, Hal. Mas et Fcem. Fusca, antennis basi pedibusque flavis, ab- 

 domine albido-piloso, trochanteribus nigris. Long. 2-^-3 ; alar. 5-5^ 

 lin. 



Male and Fern. Brown. Vertex with the three ocelli nearly in a 

 line. Antennne yellow at the base. Wing-veins as in Mycetophila, 

 Div. D. Meig. Zw. i. pi. 9. f. 21. Abdomen with whitish hairs. Legs 

 yellow; trochanters black. Hale. Face armed with a deflected horn 

 or spine. 



Not uncommon about rivulets at Holywood, near Belfast. In 

 the collection of Mr. Haliday. (I.) 



10. basalis, n. Atra, alis cinereis, halteribus testaceis, pedibus 

 piceis, femoribus posticis extus testaceo-strigatis. Long. \\ ; alar. 3^ lin. 



Deep black. Wings grey, darkest towards their tips ; veins black ; 

 subcostal vein short, united to the radial at its tip ; radial united to 

 the cubital at a long distance from its tip ; fork of the subapical vein 



