. Diptera Danica: genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark. Diptera. 258 Orthorrhapha brachycera. Ent. Soc. XXVIIL 1902, 208, PL V, figs. 12, 17, 24) as 7iigra Meig. is not assimilis as is shown witli certainty by the figure of the wing, which has the cross-veins much nearer to each other than assimilis. About Walker's statement (List of the Spec, of Dipt. Ins. in the Coll. of the Brit. Mus. Ill, 1849, 511) I can say nothing. 4. D. exilis Meig. 1822. Meig. Syst. Beschr. Ill, 91, 1, Tab. XXIII, Fig. 25—28, et VI, 344. — 1859. lioew, Neue Beitr. zur Kenntn. d. Dipt. VI, 42, 10. — 18
. Diptera Danica: genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark. Diptera. 258 Orthorrhapha brachycera. Ent. Soc. XXVIIL 1902, 208, PL V, figs. 12, 17, 24) as 7iigra Meig. is not assimilis as is shown witli certainty by the figure of the wing, which has the cross-veins much nearer to each other than assimilis. About Walker's statement (List of the Spec, of Dipt. Ins. in the Coll. of the Brit. Mus. Ill, 1849, 511) I can say nothing. 4. D. exilis Meig. 1822. Meig. Syst. Beschr. Ill, 91, 1, Tab. XXIII, Fig. 25—28, et VI, 344. — 1859. lioew, Neue Beitr. zur Kenntn. d. Dipt. VI, 42, 10. — 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 95. — 1903. Kat. palaarkt. Dipt. II, 273. Male. Frons and vertex black; ocellar triangle with four short bristles; epistoma black; palpi greyish. Occiput black, above with a pair of short bristles and some smaller hairs. Antennae black, the second joint with a very short bristle below. Thorax black, shining, with short, somewhat adpressed, yellowish grey pubescence; the disc has a couple of longer, black bristles behind. There are some black notopleural and a postalar bristle, perhaps also a supraalar bristle. Scutellum with two black marginal bristles and some very small hairs. Pleura black, shining. Abdomen black, somewhat shining, with short, yellowish grey, towards the sides darker hairs. Venter similarly co- loured and haired. Legs black, front coxae and all trochanters yellow- ish, front tibiae yellowish to brownish; sometimes also the front fe- mora, the middle tibiae and the apex of the hind tibiae yellowish to brownish and all tarsi brownish. The legs are short-haired, front fe- mora with very small bristles at the apex on both sides, middle femora with a longer bristle on the anterior side, hind femora with a pair of bristles below at the apex; all femora with fine hairs below; hind tibiae with fine hairs on the dorsal side among which a few stronger hairs. Tibiae without apical spurs. The hairs pale, the. Fig. 116. Wing of D. exilis. brist
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