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palpis fuscis, anteunis fusco-femigiueis, thoracis abdominisque suturis 

 subfuscescentibus, alls hyalinis apud costam subflavescentibus, femori- 

 bus posticis apices versus subfuscescentibus. Long. 2 ; alar. 4 tin. 



Fern. Ferruginous, clothed with yellowish down, almost of a golden 

 gloss ; the hairs on the abdomen longer. Front thickly clothed with 

 yellowish hairs. Rostrum thickly clothed with fusco-ferruginous hairs. 

 Palpi fuscous. Antennae fusco-ferruginous, paler at the base. Sutures 

 of the thorax delicately marked with fuscous ; hind edge of the abdo- 

 minal segments and lateral line darker. Pleurae paler. Wings hyaline, 

 a little yellowish towards the costa ; veins pale fusco-ferruginous. 

 Halteres pale, with a fuscous dot at the tip. Tentacles of the vagina 

 small, with a dusky dot at the tip. Legs pale ferruginous, with fus- 

 cous hairs ; hind femora before their tips very slightly embrowned. 



Very rare. Two females in Mr. Clifton's collection. (E.) 



FAMILY VIII. PHLEBOTOMIES. 



PHLEBOTOMIES, Hal. Ins. Brit. Dipt. i. 7 (1851). Tipularice noctua- 



formes, Meig. Psyckodites, Newm. Phalenoides, Mcq. Psychodides, 



Zett. Tipularice p., Agass. Pklebotomini, Bond. Tipularia Galli- 



cola Polyneura (Psychodina), Loew. 

 Ocelli nulli. Mesothoracis scutum integrum. Ala3 ovatae aut lanceo- 



latae, deflexse aut divaricatae ; vena costalis circa marginem posticum 



attenuata ; venae apicales plus quam sex. 



Ocelli none. Scutum of the mesonotum undivided. Wings and 

 halteres developed. Wings ovate or lanceolate, deflected or divaricated ; 

 costal vein attenuated round the hind margin ; veins in their last sub- 

 divisions more than six. 



Some of the foreign species of this Family are blood-suckers, 

 and allied to the Oulicidce ; others are of larger size, and allied 

 to the Tipulida. I am indebted to Mr. Haliday for all the fol- 

 lowing characters of the genera and species of this Family. The 

 mandibles are lancet-like in all the British genera, but in Phlebo- 

 tomus they, like the maxillae, are lancet-like. The ossiculi of the 

 wings, and the alulse, are unusually protruded, the latter with a 

 strong secondary crease, which, with the abrupt termination of 

 the ossicles, determines a flexible fold near the base of the wing, 

 which thus often hangs down by the sides in the dead insect. 

 The tentacles are horny, and applied flat to each other, usually 

 pointed, and forming a borer like that of Tipulida. The male 

 has a double pair of grapplers, each two-jointed, and armed at the 

 end with a claw (sometimes compound), the lower pair largest. 



