. Fig. 124. Wing of E. ephijypiata. mediastinal vein short, not reaching the margin; the subcostal and the radial vein likewise short, the first terminating before the middle of the wing; the cubital vein unforked, one cubital cell; the discai vein likewise unforked and three posterior cells; no discai cell; the lower branch of the postical vein and the anal vein wanting, thus no anal cell. No stigma. First basal cell short, the second much longer. Axillary lobe small, the axillary angle very shallow. No alula, the margin here fringed. Alar squamula very small and narrow, with a few long hairs


. Fig. 124. Wing of E. ephijypiata. mediastinal vein short, not reaching the margin; the subcostal and the radial vein likewise short, the first terminating before the middle of the wing; the cubital vein unforked, one cubital cell; the discai vein likewise unforked and three posterior cells; no discai cell; the lower branch of the postical vein and the anal vein wanting, thus no anal cell. No stigma. First basal cell short, the second much longer. Axillary lobe small, the axillary angle very shallow. No alula, the margin here fringed. Alar squamula very small and narrow, with a few long hairs. The developmental stages are not known. The small species occurs mainly in woods in low herbage. To the genus only one palæarctic species belongs, also occurring in Denmark. 1. E. ephippiata Fall. 1815. Fall. Dipt. Suec. Empid. 11, 14 (Taehydromia). — 1822. Meig. Syst. Beschr. III, 65,8, Tab. XXIII, Fig. 10 {Hemerodromia). — 1842. Zett. Dipt. Scand. I, 326,1. — 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 95. — 1903. Kat. paliiarkt. Dipt. II, 278. Male. Vertex and frons brownlsh black: palpi yellow. Occiput dark brown or blackish, with pale brownish bristles and hairs. Antennæ 18


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