. Diptera Brachycera. Brachycera. KlIAMPHOMYIA. EMPIS. 34" a few stiff black hairs ; hind feinora apparentl^y with only micro- scopic pubescence; hind tibia? with soft black bail's on outer side, becoming longer towards the tips, whei-e these tibiae themselves are gradually tliickened; hind metatai'si lengthened and Fig. 28.—Rliamphomyla grhconigra, Bruii., wing. Whujs pale brown, stigma an indistinct darker brown streak; halteres dirty brownish yellow. Lencjth, 4 mm. Described from a single J from Muudali, 9000 ft., DehraDiin, 12. V. 1010, in the Indian Museum. Genus EMPIS, L.
. Diptera Brachycera. Brachycera. KlIAMPHOMYIA. EMPIS. 34" a few stiff black hairs ; hind feinora apparentl^y with only micro- scopic pubescence; hind tibia? with soft black bail's on outer side, becoming longer towards the tips, whei-e these tibiae themselves are gradually tliickened; hind metatai'si lengthened and Fig. 28.—Rliamphomyla grhconigra, Bruii., wing. Whujs pale brown, stigma an indistinct darker brown streak; halteres dirty brownish yellow. Lencjth, 4 mm. Described from a single J from Muudali, 9000 ft., DehraDiin, 12. V. 1010, in the Indian Museum. Genus EMPIS, L. Empis, Limiajus, Syst. Nat. lOtli ed. p. 603 (1758). Platyptera, JMeigen, Illig-. Mag-, ii, p. 269 (1803). Pachymei-ia, Stephens, Syst. Cat. Brit. Ins. ii, p. 262 (1829). Plafypteri/f/ia, Stephens, loc. cif. p. 263. Paciniinerina,'!slaiCq\\Avt, Hist. Nat. Dipt, i, p. (1834). Urio'f/aster, Macquart, Dipt. Exot. i, pt. 2, p. 102 (1839). Hjioplempis, Bigot, Ball. Soc. Ent. France, (5) x, p. 47 (1880). Genotype, Empis i^^'^nipes, L. (Europe); by Latreille's designa- tion. Head globular, sometimes elongated or pear-shaped, the occiput in the latter case subconical; some bristles and pubescence occur ; eyes normally contiguous in m:ile, sometimes narrowly separated; always more or less distinctly separated in female ; in contiguous eyes, upper facets larger than lower ones, not distinctly demar- cated ; ocellar tubercle prominent. Proboscis from as long as height of head to as long as whole length of body, prominent,, straight, directed downwards; ])alpi 1-jointed, slightly curved. Antenna? B-jointed, with a distiuct 2-jointed style ; 1st joint longer or shorter; 2nd short, both more or less bristly; 3rd always the longest, conically tapering, bare; first joiut of stvle always very short, style always bare. Ihorax approximately rectangular, moderately arched, prothorax distinct. Some weak dorso-central and sometimes acrostichal bristles present, with distinct but not strongly
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