TH. BECKER: DI ETEROLOGISCHE STUDIEN 
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SHAWschen Arten nicht habe in Augenschein nehmen können, so kann ich nichts Besseres tun, 
als seine Beschreibungen im Wortlaut wiederzugeben. 
1. fimbriatus Grimsh. <j*Q. 
Fauna Hawaiiensis, III. Suppl., 81 (1901). 
0 * 9 - Bong. corp. 2 x / 3 — 3 mm; alar. 3 — 4 mm. Front greenish, slighrly metallic. Antennae 
entirely reddish-yellow, third joint small, rounded at the tip and distinctly hairy, arista pubes- 
cent. Thorax ochraceous, shining with a greenish and slightly metallic tinge on the dorsum; scu- 
tellum yellow, in the female tinged with green at the base, halteres yellow. Abdomen in cf blackish, 
shading off into coppery and then greenish on the posterior half of each segment, in the 9 more 
uniformly black with a greenish tinge. Legs pale yellow, middle coxae with a large blackish spot 
on the basal half of their outer surfaces, fore femora in the cf and sometimes in 9 brownish on 
their basal half, all the tarsi dark towards the tip. Fore femora without bristles, middle femora 
distinctly bent forward at the tip in the cf, in both sexes with two or three large bristles at the tip, 
hind femora with a single bristle near the tip. Fore tibiae in both sexes with two bristles on the 
outer side, middle tibiae in the cf slightly curved, thickly and regularly covered with short hairs, 
on the outer surface with four strong bristles, on the inner surface with a row of very long, fine 
ones, in the 9 much less hairy, with three bristles on the inner surface and four or five on the 
outer, hind tibiae in both sexes with about ten bristles. Wings dusky-hyaline, third and fourth 
veins exactly parallel, posterior transverse vein more than twice hs lengtli from the posterior 
margin of the wing. 
Hab. Hawaii, 2 males and 3 females, Kilauea, VIII. 1895. Plate I, fig. 22, intermediate femur 
and tibia of cf. 
2. distortipes Grimsh. cf- 
cf- — Long. corp. 2,5 mm; alar. 3 mm. Similar in all respects save the structure of the legs to 
C. fimbriatus. Fore legs entirely without long bristles; femora and tibiae straight, metatarsi bowed 
outwards and furnished on the inner side of the tip with a cushion of very short and thick black 
bristles. Intermediate femora with a single long and strong bristle on the hind surface near the 
tip, a row of somewhat fines regularly arranged and erecf bristles on the basal two-thirds of the 
under surface and a number of fine long erect hairs on the apical half of the upper surface ; tibiae 
curiously twisted and much enlarged at the tip, on the inner surface with one or two rows of 
shortish erect bristles, five or six long and strong bristles near the tip, on the outer surface of the 
expanded portion with a number of short stubble-shaped bristles; metatarsi short, bent and twi- 
sted, projecting beyond the insertion of the second tarsal joint in the form of a’blunt rounded 
process and also furnished with a short thick black spur behind, remaining tarsal joints normal 
and slender; hind femora with a single bristle near the tip above, tibiae with nine bristles on the 
outer surface, arranged in two rows, tarsi slender. 
Hab. Hawaii, one male, Kilauea, VIII. 1895. Plate I, figs. 23 and 24, intermediate leg of cf, 
outer and hind surfaces. 
