. Fig. 126. Wing of Ch. hirta. a little brownish towards the anterior margin. The velns thick, brown, the postical cross-vein quite perpendicular. Halteres yellow or reddish yellow. Female. Similar to the male; abdomen very short-haired, and pointed. Length 3—4 mm. In not fuUy mature specimens the legs may be somewhat brownish. Ch. hirta has hitherto been taken only on the sea-shore at Tisvilde; it was present in rather great numbers, and it occurs probably also in other piaces in Denmark at sea-shores. It was for the first time taken in 1909 on the ^^'/7 and ^^h (the author). It was also take
. Fig. 126. Wing of Ch. hirta. a little brownish towards the anterior margin. The velns thick, brown, the postical cross-vein quite perpendicular. Halteres yellow or reddish yellow. Female. Similar to the male; abdomen very short-haired, and pointed. Length 3—4 mm. In not fuUy mature specimens the legs may be somewhat brownish. Ch. hirta has hitherto been taken only on the sea-shore at Tisvilde; it was present in rather great numbers, and it occurs probably also in other piaces in Denmark at sea-shores. It was for the first time taken in 1909 on the ^^'/7 and ^^h (the author). It was also taken in copula. Geographical distribution:— Europe and down into North Africa; it is not known north of Denmark, but it occurs in England. ± Ch. cursitans Zett. 1819. Zett. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 1819, 82, 36 (Empis). — 182R. Fall. Dipt. Suec. Suppl. I, 7, 20 — 21 {Tachydromia). — 1842. Zett. Dipt. Scand. I, 322, 12 (Tachypeza). — 1903. Kat. palaarkt. Dipt. II, 278. Male. Frons and vertex dark grey; epistoma and palpi light grey. Occiput greyish, with four long, black bristles above, and with short
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