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tip, the following joint more thickened at the base, and tapering to the end, scarcely 
compressed. In A. raptor (Wlk. Ins. Br. i. 221, 1), these two joints are much 
more slender and compressed, the second a little gibbous at the base only, the 
metatarsus still less thickened at the very extremity (fig. 8). In other respects the 
two species are singularly like, except in colour, and differ equally from the third 
species, A.ferox (Wlk. Ins. Br. i. 221, 2), see fig. 9. 
Not uncommon on the wet rocks and tangle at Smerwick Bay (Kerry), in July. 
Fam.—MusciDiE. 
Trib.—GEOMYZINI. 
Geomyza cingulata, pi. 2, fig. 10. 
Ferruginea nitida, thoracis vittis lateralibus abdominisque cingulis fuscis, articulo 
tarsorum extremo apice nigro , alis immaculatis. 
Long 1, Exp. 2^ lines. Pale ferruginous, shining; a dusky band of the pleurae 
ending under the wing, and a fainter one above it, dusky; the hind edge of the 
abdominal segments in the male, the second segment entirely, dusky ; in the female 
only the edge of the second and following segments dusky, and this interrupted in 
the anterior ones. Face with two black bristles at each lower angle, a few very minute 
ones along the cheeks. Antennae with the third joint rounded, arista hairy black. 
The tip of the last tarsal joint and the claws black; fore femora with a black 
spine beneath beyond the middle, besides a few slighter, scattered bristles. In the 
male, the hind femora are ciliated beneath with very short black hairs. Wings 
hyaline, rounded at the tip ; the costal vein yellowish, minutely and sparingly 
pectinated, the rest light brown ; the prasbrachial veinlet before the middle of the 
discal areolet. Halteres pale. 
On the silt of the Castlemaine river (Kerry), among the reeds, in July, not 
rare. 
Trib.—EPHYDRINI. 
Canace nasica, pi. 2, fig. 11. 
Hal. Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. 411.—Wlk. Ins. Brit. ii. 269. 
Cinereous, with pale pubescence, inclining to ferruginous on the mesonotum 
and scutellum, elsewhere rather glaucous. Head broader than thorax, as long as 
broad, above brassy-green, except the orbit and the stemmatic triangle, at each 
side of which there is a small impression ; the ocelli very minute ; the orbit with 
pale cilia. Eyes transversely oval, glabrous. Face, cheeks, and epistoma, glossy 
whitish ; face short, convex in the middle, concave under the antennas, faintly 
ciliated at the lower angles ; cheeks broad; epistoma ample, vaulted. Antennae 
short black, first joint very short, second transverse, third rounded, rather 
broader than long; arista finely pubescent, penultimate joint black, as long as 
third of antenna, the last twice as long, slender, pale. Labium glaucous gray, palpi 
and liplets rusty yellow. Wings whitish or obscure hyaline, veins brown, towards 
the base yellowish, costal vein dusky ferruginous; subapical and cubital both 
straight, parallel; discal veinlet straight, a little oblique, distant by little more than 
its own length from the end of the pobrachial vein; praebrachial veinlet a little 
beyond the first third of the discal areolet; mediastinal vein distinct, rejoining the 
subcostal at the end. Tibiae ferruginous at the base and tip; trochanters some¬ 
times tinged with the same colour; tarsi rusty yellow, the last joint dusky ; ungues 
curved, black ; onychia large, whitish; empodium setaceous, pubescent, pale. 
Abdomen somewhat conical, depressed, of seven segments, the second largest; 
hypopygium of male ending behind in two very short and stout black spines. 
A maritime species, not rare at Rossbegh creek; found also at Smerwick Bay ; 
July to September. 
Glenanthe ripicola, pi. 2, fig. 12. 
Hal. Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. 404.—Wlk. Ins. Br. ii. 258. 
On grassy sea-coasts; Holy wood, Portmarnock, Carragh creek, &c. 
