37 
in length, from Netley, Hants, July 22nd, 1893 {Miss Gertrude 
Ricardo). The species has, however, also been taken in recent years 
by Mr. L. C. Chawner in the New Forest, Hants, and by Mr. G. H. 
Verrall in Canvey Island, Essex. It may be noted that the specimen 
figured by Curtis ('British Entomology,' 1834) was also from Essex 
(Mersea Isle). Continental specimens of this species in the Museum 
collection are chiefly from southern localities (Italy, the Morea, Greece, 
and Cyprus). In Austria, according to Schiner (' Fauna Austriaca. — 
Die Fliegen (Diptera),' I. p. 39), Hmmatopota italica is more common 
than H. pluvialis ; it is, however, not certain that Schiner's inter- 
pretation of Meigen's H. italica is the same as that current in this 
country, since, according to the Austrian Dipterist, the femora should 
be black. Meigen's original description, which merely states that 
H. italica is distinguished from // pluvialis by the antenna,-, says 
nothing about the femora. 
Genus 
THERIGTLECTES, Zeller. 
Therioplectes micans, Mg-. 
Plate 13. 
This is a shining black species, distinguishable from the bisignatus 
form of Th. tropicus (Plate 16), which it resembles in appearance, by 
the legs being entirely black. Further means of recognition are 
afforded in the male by the presence of a bunch of long erect hairs 
at the end of each of the first four joints of the front tarsi ; and in the 
female by the frontal triangle (the area of the head between the 
anterior angles of the eyes and the antenna;) being, with the excep- 
tion of a narrow border immediately above the base of each antenna, 
shining black instead of dull grey. In the case of the male, the eyes 
of the living insect are described by Brauer (Denkschr. k. Akad. 
Wiss , math.-naturw. CI., 42 Bd. (1880), p. 137) as "on the lower half 
with three purple bands on a bright green ground, and purple- 
