62 DESCRIPTIONS OF THE 



beneath ; abdomen with four rows of black spots ; wings either 

 unspotted, or with spots reaching from the upper border into the 

 middle of the wing. 



Body tawny, covered with white down ; head broad, short, rounded 

 in front, clothed with white hairs and black bristles, pale beneath j 

 peristoma angular, scarcely longer than broad, almost white ; 

 epistoma not prominent ; lip moderately long, clothed with black 

 and white hairs ; feelers long and broad, their tips bright yellow ; 

 antennae yellow ; 3d joint bright yellow, flat above, convex 

 beneath, slightly pointed ; thorax angular, with a few black 

 bristles above, and a black spot beneath on each side between the 

 fore and middle legs ; scutellum covering the metathorax ; abdo- 

 men nearly flat, sparingly clothed with black hairs ; telum of 

 the female broad, flat, as long as half the abdomen, gradually 

 narrowing from the base to the tip ; legs clothed with black hairs ; 

 wings limpid ; nervures brown, yellow toward the base of the 

 wing ; cross nervures straight and upright ; poisers yellow. 



The species inhabit dry and chalky districts, and are not 

 common. 



Sp. 1. Ter. serratulae. Male and Fem. Wings limpid, un- 

 spotted. (Fig. 3.) 



Musca serratulae . . . Linn. Syst. Nat. II. 997. 118; 



Faun. Suec. 1871; Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. Y. 2856. 118; Fahr.Mant. 



Ins. II. 352. 115; Spec. Ins. II. 



453. 96 ; Ent. Si/st. IV. 356. 



182; Turt. III. 620. 

 Dacus serratulae . . . Fabr. Syst. Antl. 278. 27. 

 Tephritis serratulae . . . Fallen, Dipt. Suec. Ortal. 14. 22. 

 Trypeta serratulae . . . Meig. Europ. Zweijlug. Ins. V. 



346. 

 Trypeta pallens .... Wied. Meig. Europ. Zweijlug. Ins. 



V. 347 ; PI. L. fig. 5. 

 Terelliae palpata & luteola. Desvoidy, Essai sur les Myodaires, 



758. 9. 1, 2. 



Head beneath and sometimes round the eyes almost white ; mouth 

 tawny, sometimes yellow ; 1st, 2d, 4th, and 5 th joints of the antennae 

 sometimes almost white ; thorax above with two black bands 

 joined together before, pale red beneath ; the two black or rarely 

 brown spots circled with yellow ; metathorax brown ; abdomen 



