498 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Empis colonica, n. s., mas. Fulva, abdomine obscuriore, antennis 

 nigris, pedibus fulvis, tarsis apice piceis, alls subfulvis. 



Body bright tawny, shining, smooth, beset with a few short 

 slender black bristles : eyes and feelers black : lip tawny, piceous 

 towards the tip, much more than half the length of the body : abdo- 

 men dark tawny, clothed with black hairs : legs pale tawny, thinly 

 clothed with short black hairs and bristles ; feet piceous towards the 

 tips : wings with a tawny tinge ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins brown, 

 tawny towards the base ; poisers pale yellow. Length of the body 

 3 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



a. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



Group IX. 



Empis femorata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. 568. Syst. Antl. 140. 

 Coq. III. Icon. pi. 27, /. 8, 14. Latr. Gen. Crust, iv. 303. 

 Meig. Dipt. iii. 40, 45, pi. 22, /. 20. Curt. Brit. Ent. 18, 29, 

 2nd edit. Pachymeria femorata, Stepk. Pachymerina femo- 

 rata, Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 333, 1. 



a. England. 



b. England. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



c. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Rhamphomyia, Meigen. 

 Group I. 



Rhamphomyia marginata, Meig. Dipt. iii. 43, 1. Macq. Hist. 



Nat. Dipt. i. 336, 8. Empis marginata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. 



403, 3. Syst. Antl. 138, 3. Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. v. 2889, 6. 



Latr. Gen. Crust, iv. 304. Meig. Klass. Zweif. i. 228, 25, pi. 



11,/. 29. E. platyptera, Panz. Faun. Germ. xxiv. 23. 

 a. South Europe. 



Group II. 



Rhamphomyia rugicollis, Meig. Dipt. iii. 46, 8. 



a. England. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



b. Alten, Finmark. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



