BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 
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Lbclomen cylindrical, slender, with short close hair, the ^ genital 
losed, the end of the abdomen club-shaped and thickened, 
-.egs tolerably long ; coxae tolerably robust, elongated ; femora 
hoi*ter •, tarsi longer than the tibiae ; the foi’e-femora as long, or 
cai’cely as long, as the coxae. Tibial spurs large. Wings micro- 
copically pubescent, the anterior border with close short hairs ; 
)Osterior border ciliated. Discoidal vein distinctly haired ; media- 
tinal vein rudimentary, very short, gradually disappearing ■ sub- 
ostal vein joining the costa far beyond the middle of the wing ; 
lubital vein issuing in a steep way out of the sub-costal vein, 
learer to the tip of the latter ; the small cross-vein running in the 
;ame direction as the cubital vein, appearing as a continuation 
)f the latter ; the portion in front of the point where the discoidal 
'•ein branches off to the cubital vein 6-8 times as long as the steep 
)asal portion of the cubital vein 3 discoidal vein branching off 
jeyond the tip of the sub-costal vein, the petiole much longer 
ilian the fork, the bi’anches widely separated, the anterior some- 
what arched. Postical vein branching far before the middle of 
die wing, the fork small at the base, theu suddenly widened.” 
List of the Genera introduced into the Mycetophilidse since the 
Cipula of Linnaeus, the synonym.s, doubtful genera, those named 
inly or insufficiently characterised, and genera now deposited in 
ither families being put in italics : — 
Ceroplatus, Bose, Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. de Paris, I. p. 42, 1792. 
Macrocera, Meigen, Illiger’s Magazine, II. p. 261, 1803. 
Mycetophila, Meig. l.c. p. 261. 
Cordyla, Meig. l.c. p. 263. 
Sciara, Meig. l.c. (type of the iSciaridai). 
Platyura, Meig. l.c. p. 264. 
Asinduluni, Latreille, Hist. Nat. des Crus, et des Ins. XIV. 
[). 290, 1804. 
MolohruH, Latr. N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. (syn. Sciara). 
Campy hmyza, Meig. System. Be.schr. I. p. 101, 1818 [now 
included in Cecidomyidai, but Haliday (Ins. Brit. Dip. III. 6, 
1851,) places it in Mycetophilidai]. 
