206 MUSCIDJE. 



teous, almost reaching the epistoma ; third joint nearly linear, oblique 

 at the tip, much longer than the second. Scutellum yeUow. JFings 

 white, with four hrown bands ; first and second occasionally imperfect or 

 wantinff ; fourth apical, connected in front ivith the third; cubital and 

 preebrachial veins hardly diverging between the transverse veins ; cu- 

 bital curved and slightly converging towards the praibrachial between 

 the prsebrachial transverse and the tip ; discal transverse upright, hardly 

 curved outward, parted by nearly twice its length from the prsebrachial 

 transverse, and by one-third of its length from the border. Halteres 

 white. Legs tawny. Fern. Oviduct cylindrical, obconical at the base, 

 much longer than the abdomen. 

 Not rare. (E.) 



21. aprica, Fal. Ortal. 7. 7 (1820); Meig. ; Loew ; Zett.— soZ- 

 stitialis, F. Nigra, capite scutelloque flavis, alis alhis nigro-quadrifas- 

 ciatis, pedibus fulvis, oviductu cylindrico abdominis longitudine. Long. 

 2-2i ; alar. 3^-4 Un. 



Black, shining. Head yellow. Antennte luteous ; third joint linear, 

 rounded at the tip, much longer than the second. Scutellum yellow. 

 Wings white, with four broion bands; fourth apical, connected in front 

 loith the third ; cubital and prsebrachial veins slightly diverging between 

 the transverse veins, hardly converging between the discal transverse 

 and the tip ; discal transverse nearly upright, very slightly curved out- 

 ward, parted by much more than its length from the prfebrachial trans- 

 verse, and by less than half its length from the border. Halteres 

 white. Legs tawny. Fern. Oviduct cylindrical, obconical at the base, 

 as long as the abdomen. 



Common. (E.) 



22. Cardui, L. Fn. 1876 (1761); D. G.; F. ; Gmel. ; Bchr. ; 

 Latr. ; Lam.; Meig.! Zw. pi. 49. f. 9; Mcq. ; Loew; Boie ; Zett. — 



fiexuosa. Germ. — Reaumurii, Desv. — liturata, Desv. — Sonchi, Desv. — 

 CentaurecB, Desv. — Bejeanii, Desv. Nigra, capite scutello tibiis tar- 

 sisque flavis, alis albis fasciis quatuor latis cotinexis nigris, oviductu 

 cylindrico. Long. 2-2|^ ; alar. 4-5 lin. 



Black, shining. Head yellow; vertex reddish. Antenna? luteous, 

 not near reaching the epistoma ; third joint conical, brown at the tip, 

 a little longer than the second. Scutellum yellow. Wings white, with 

 four black bands ; first connected with the second, and third with the 

 fourth in front ; second connected with the third behind; cubital and 

 prsebrachial veins slightly diverging between the transverse veins, 

 slightly curved and almost parallel from the discal transverse to the 

 tip ; discal transverse straight and upright, parted by more than its 

 length from the prasbrachial transverse, and by more than half its 

 length from the border. Halteres whitish. Legs yelloio ; femora black. 

 Fern. Oviduct cylindric-conical, rather long. 



Not rare. (E.) 



