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larvs; has been mentioned before (pp. 97, 98). The maggot of a Scio- 

 phila is figured on page 96. (Fig. 15 A.) 



Genus. — Empalia^ Wtz. 



The costal vein does not extend to the tip of the wing ; the base 

 of the fourth hind areolet a litde nearer to the base of the wing than 

 is the base of the second hind areolet. The petiole of the latter 

 moderately long. 



E. vitripennis, Mg. 



Blackish-brown. Head dark brown : proboscis and palpi yellow- 

 ish ; antennae brown, tawny at base. Thorax dark brown, yellowish 

 on each side. Abdomen dark brown, ferruginous at the tip ; lamellae 

 of $ yellow, and the ovipositor and anal segments. Legs light 

 yellow ; tarsi dark brown ; base of legs brown ; femora with dark 

 sjjots at the apex ; the end of the posterior femora and tibia brown ; 

 anterior tibia with two, middle and posterior with three rows of 

 dark spines; the anterior tibia much longer than the metatarsi. 

 Wings sometimes brownish, pale at the base ; fourth and fifth veins 

 |)ale. Length if to 2\ lin. 



Genus. — Empheria, Wtz. 

 The first longitudinal vein does not extend to the tip of the wing; 

 the base of the fourth hind areolet is much nearer the base of the 

 wing than is the base of the second hind areolet. 



E. pictipenuls, Hal. 



Yellowish. Thorax yellowish-brown, sides pale. Abdomen has first 

 and second segments unspotted ; third and fourth blackish-brown 

 with testaceous hind border, fifth and sixth almost black : hypopygium 

 yellowish ; lamellae of ovipositor yellow. Head yellow, front and 

 vertex brownish ; proboscis yellow ; palpi and antennce brownish, 

 the latter yellowish at the base (first and second joints), scarcely as 

 long as the head and thorax together. Wings with two brown 

 bands ; one in the middle of the wing, passing beyond the areolet, 

 and "sinuated thence to the hind border; the other sub-apical, 

 extending to the tip of the radial vein." 



Legs pale yellow ; tibia brownish ; tarsi brown ; anterior tibia some- 

 times longer than the metatarsi. Length if to 2 lin. Appears in 

 October. This is a rare species ; it was found in Kent, and 

 described by Mr. Haliday.* Mr. Dale records this also from Glan- 

 ville Wootton in the Eni. Mo. Mag., 2nd series., vol. i., p. 109 

 (1890'. 



* Ent. Mag., I. 156 (1833), ^^d Winnertz, Verb. d. Zool. Bot. Ges., xiii. 

 pp. 742-74S (186:?). 



