eccentric use of such names as Abaddon^ Belzebub, Cerberus, Hot- 

 tentotta, Lar, Lucifer, Tantalus, &c. for some foreign species. 



The Anthraces fly in the sunshine, they delight in dry sandy 

 districts, and subsist upon the juices of flowers, which accounts pro- 

 bably for their wanting mandibles. The origin as well as the form 

 of the parts composing the mouth, not being so accurately exhi- 

 bited as could be wished by Meigen and other authors, I have en- 

 deavoured, as far as possible, to investigate the subject for the in- 

 formation of the student. 



Meigen has described 58 European species ; but as they delight 

 in a warm climate, we cannot ever hope to increase our genus much 

 beyond its present number, and even those that have been met with 

 in Britain are far from common. 



* Submarginal nervure united at its origin, to the transverse one of 

 the discoidal cell. 



1. A. flava Hgg. — MeAg. 2. 143- 1 .— hottentotta Lat.r—Meig. Klass. 1. 199\ 1.— 



Don. 14. 494. 



Length 4^ to 6 lines. Black, clothed with yellow ochreous hair : an- 

 tennae and hair on crown of the head black : ayes when dead reddish- 

 brown : thoi'ax densely clothed all round and beneath with yellow ochre- 

 ous hairs : abdomen with the anterior marginal portion black and pro- 

 ducing black hairs, leaving 5 bands of yellowish- hair, the 2rid frequently 

 interrupted in the centre, the sides fringed with yellow-ochre hairs form- 

 ing a bundle on each side every segment, the 5th and 6th with the hairs 

 black. Wings transparent, iridescent, the costa yellowish brown, costal 

 nervure black at the base and pectinated ; squamulse yeltow .- halteres- 

 and legs black. 



End of June, borders of woods, Devon. Parley Heath, upon 

 places where the turf had been peeled off, and' hovering over a bank ; 

 Mr. Dale. Monk's Wood, Huntingdonshire; Rev. W. L. P. 

 Garnons. I found it tolerably abundant, flying about and alight- 

 ing on the chestnut and hazel, in a warm valley ascending a moun- 

 tain near Claremont in Auvergne, 15th of July, 1830.^ 



2. A. hottentotta Li7in. Faun. Suec. 44. 1789. — Schcef. tab. 12. f. 10—12? and 



tab. 75'f' 7. — circumdata Hgg. — Meig. 2. 143. 2. 



Length 5 to 6 lines. Black, densely clothed with long soft fulvous yel- 

 low hairs : antennae and hair on the crown of the head black : abdomen: 

 deeply fringed down the sides, 5th and 6th joints and the apex fringed with, 

 black hairs, on each side of the latter the hair is whitish : wings trans- 

 parent iridescent, costa yellowish brown, nervures piceous, the costa 

 black at the base and pectinated, the squamulae forming a silver spot on 

 each shoulder : halteres ochreous : legs black, clothed with black hairs ;. 

 thighs and tibiae with shining ochreous scales above. 



I was so fortunate as to meet with specimens of this insect the 

 beginning of July 1822, flying amongst rushes and lighting upon 

 the sand near the sea-shore at Covehithe, Suffolk ; on the sand hills, 

 Dawlish-warren, Captain Blomer ; at Braunton Burrows, Mr. Dale 

 and Mr. Cocks, as late as the 26th of July, and on the borders of 

 woods in Devon; and I believe near London, by Mr. Hatchet; also 



by Mr. Wailes on the sea-shore at Marsden, near South Shields. 



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