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sionally yellowish; second joint long. Thorax pale grey, with two 

 stripes and two spots of a coffee-brown colour ; the spots are behind the 

 stripes, which are occasionally interrupted. Scutellum sometimes more 

 or less tawny. Metathorax and abdomen blackish-brown, the latter with 

 whitish sutures. Wings limpid ; veins pale brown. Halteres tawny, 

 with blackish-brown knobs. Legs tawny, more or less blackish-brown 

 at the tips of the femora, of the tibia3, and of the joints of the tarsi ; 

 these bands as usual are broader on the femora than on the tibiae, and 

 on the hind legs than on the fore legs ; fore femora armed with seven- 

 teen spines ; middle femora with four ; hind femora with three ; hind 

 plantae with a stout bristle on the side. Male. Antennae blackish- 

 brown, their plumes with a yellowish glistening. Fern. Antennae brown, 

 generally with yellow bands, yellowish at the base; joints from the 

 first to the eighth oval, almost cylindrical; from the ninth to the thir- 

 teenth elliptical, very long; first joint elongated before the middle; 

 second and six following elongated beyond the middle. Wings slightly 

 yellowish towards the costa. 

 Generally distributed. (E.) 



64. tibialis, Meig. Zw. i. 82. 36 (1818); Steeg. ; Es. ; Zett. ; 

 Winn. ! Linn. Ent. vi. pi. 8. f. 62. apicalis? Koser. Fcem. niger, ni- 

 tidus, facie, palpis antennisque nigro-fuscis, alis subfuscescentibus apud 

 costam obscurioribus, venis fuscis apud costam nigro-fuscis, abdomine 

 basi subcontracto, pedibus fulvis, femoribus tibiisque apice fuscis, tarsis 

 albo-fiavis apice nigris, tibiis posticis nigris. Long. 1^ ; alar. 3 lin. 



Fern. Black, shining. Face, palpi, and antenna blackish-brown ; 

 joints of the latter from the first to the eighth oval, almost cylindrical, 

 somewhat straightened beyond the middle ; from the ninth to the thir- 

 teenth elliptical, much elongated. Wings somewhat brownish, darker 

 towards the costa ; veins brown, blackish-brown in front. Halteres 

 black ; petioles occasionally yellowish-white. Legs tawny ; tarsi whitish- 

 yellow; fourth and fifth joints with black tips, wholly black in the 

 hind tarsi ; anterior knees and tips of the anterior tibiae brown ; hind 

 femora for one-third of the length from the tips, and the whole of the 

 hind tibiae, black ; fore femora and hind femora somewhat incrassated ; 

 fore femora with ten spines, middle femora with two, and hind femora 

 with four ; plantae with five pair of spines ; ungues stout. 



Generally distributed. (E. S. I.) 



65. fasciatus, Meig. Zw. i. 79. 27 (1818); Mcq.; Staag.; Blanch.; 

 Zett. ; Winn. ! Linn. Ent. vi. pi. 8. f. 63. cingulatus, Meig. ; Us. 

 marginatus, Steph. ; Curt.! B. E. 285. Fcem. pallide cinereus, palpis 

 fulvis aut nigro-fuscis, antennis nigro-fuscis, articulis inferioribus basi 

 saepissime fulvis, thorace vittis tribus fuscis, scutello saepe plus minus ve 

 fulvo, metathorace nigro-fusco, alis hyalinis, venis pallidis apud costam 

 fuscis, halteribus albis, abdomiuis basi apiceque nigro-fuscis, pedibus 

 fulvis plus minusve nigro-fusco variis. Long. 2^ ; alar. 5 lin. 



Fern. Front and face grey, blackish-grey, or brown. Palpi tawny 



