. Diptera Danica: genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark. Diptera. Dolichopodidae. 187 Bornholni in Almindingen. My dates are '^/a—'Ys- It occurs in low herbage on meadows, humid places and at the borders of water in woods, sometimes in great numbers. Zetterstedt mentions that Staeger has taken it in copula. Geographical distribution: — Northern and middle Europe down into Italy; towards the north to southern Sweden. 11. H. brevicomis Staeg. 1842. Stseg. Krayer's Tidsskr. IV, 42, 38 (DoUchopus). — 1857. Loew, Neue Beitr. V, 21. — 1903. Kat. palaarkt. Dipt. II, 317. — Dolichopus
. Diptera Danica: genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark. Diptera. Dolichopodidae. 187 Bornholni in Almindingen. My dates are '^/a—'Ys- It occurs in low herbage on meadows, humid places and at the borders of water in woods, sometimes in great numbers. Zetterstedt mentions that Staeger has taken it in copula. Geographical distribution: — Northern and middle Europe down into Italy; towards the north to southern Sweden. 11. H. brevicomis Staeg. 1842. Stseg. Krayer's Tidsskr. IV, 42, 38 (DoUchopus). — 1857. Loew, Neue Beitr. V, 21. — 1903. Kat. palaarkt. Dipt. II, 317. — Dolichopus ohscuripennis Zett. 1843. Dipt. Scand. II, 575, 64, et 1849. VIII, 3086, 64. — Dolichopus fumipennis Staeg. in litt. Zett. 1. c. II, 575. Male. Vertex and frons brownish grey dusted; ocellar tubercle dark. Epistoma narrow, light grey; clypeus bent inwards. Palpi black. Occiput greenish, greyish pruinose; postocular bristles black. Antennae black, short, shorter than the head, the third joint not. Fig. 54. Antenna of -H". brevicomis d", from the inside. X 80. as long as broad, short-pointed; arista short-haired. Thorax some- what dark aeneous green, varying from green to golden aeneous; very slightly pruinose, shining; scutellum haired with short, dark hairs. Pleura greenish or eeneous, grey pruinose; propleura with a few pale hairs and a black prothoracic bristle. Abdomen green or more or less aeneous, very slightly pruinose downwards; it is clothed with short, black hairs and has hindmarginal bristles, which are longer on the first segment. Venter greenish, grey pruinose, with brownish hairs, a little longer at the base. Hypopygium quite as in the pre- ceding species, the outer lamellae small, black, with somewhat short hairs at the margin. Legs yellow, coxae grey with yellow apex; tarsi with the apex of metatarsus and the following joints black; the hind tibiae often a little brownish at the apex, and hind metatarsi black for the greatest part, not rarel
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