. Fig. 3. Wing of M. sHgmaticdlis. in reality open, as the medial cross-vein is wanting); the lower branch of the postical vein not recurrent, meeting the anal vein ahnost at a right angle; the anal cell longer than the second basal cell; the anal vein reaching the margin. Stigma present. The developmental stages are not known. Of the genus 3 species are known from the palæarctic region; one is found in Denmark. 1. M. stigmaticalis Zett. 1838. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 534, 4, (Ct/rtoma). — 1842. Zett. Dipt. Scand. I, 334, 1, et 1849. VIII, 3013, 1, et 1859. XIII, 4998, 1. - 1903. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt.
. Fig. 3. Wing of M. sHgmaticdlis. in reality open, as the medial cross-vein is wanting); the lower branch of the postical vein not recurrent, meeting the anal vein ahnost at a right angle; the anal cell longer than the second basal cell; the anal vein reaching the margin. Stigma present. The developmental stages are not known. Of the genus 3 species are known from the palæarctic region; one is found in Denmark. 1. M. stigmaticalis Zett. 1838. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 534, 4, (Ct/rtoma). — 1842. Zett. Dipt. Scand. I, 334, 1, et 1849. VIII, 3013, 1, et 1859. XIII, 4998, 1. - 1903. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. II, 220. Male. Epistoma dark yellowish; occiput dark grey with black hairs. Antennæ dark brownish. Thorax black, slightly brownish pruinose, somewhat shining. Dorsocentral and acrostichal bristles somewhat short, black; notopleural, postalar and scutellar marginal bristles likewise black. Pleura blackish grey, somewhat shining, Ab- domen black, somewhat dull, with rather short, blackish hairs. Venter pale. The last joints of abdomen and the genitalia are incurved towards the venter. Legs brownish (more or less pale); the hind tibiæ and the two first joints on the hind tarsi thickened. Femora with short hairs; tibiæ with dorsal and ventral rows of short hairs and with some longer bristles on the dorsal side; tarsi short haired. The hairs blackish or brown, paler on the tarsi. Wings somewhat broad, very slightly tinged, with a bluish reflex; a seam along the posterior margin quite hyaline. Veins pale brown; between the cubital and discai vein there is a small, abbreviated vein-rudiment at the margin, representing an upper branch of the discai vein. Stigma
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