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Thorax greyish brown above ; scutellum red ; metathorax black ; 

 wings brown, at the base limpid with a brown cross band, at the 

 tip with one small and three large limpid spots. (Length of 

 body 2 lines ; of wings 3^ lines.) 



Very rare in England. 



Sphenella. — Desvnidy. 



Like Urophora, but head narrowed and lengthened in front, peri- 

 stoma longer, epistoma triangular and very prominent, telum of 

 female short. 



Sp. L Sphe. signata. Black; head tawn?/, scutellum yellow, 

 wings white, with six dark brown bands. (Fig. 1 7.) 



Trypeta signata . Meiif. Europ. Zweijlug. Ins. V. 332. 30. 



pi. XLIX. fig. 4. 

 Tephritis Hebe . Neumi. Ent. Mag. L 506. 



Body clothed with black down and hairs ; head with a few black 

 bristles, tawny above, paler beneath, black behind ; antennae 

 tawny, 3d joint red, flat above, convex beneath ; sides of thorax 

 yellow ; metathorax shining ; legs tawny, clothed with black 

 hairs ; wings inclining to yellow at the base, 1st band hardly 

 seen, 2d shortened at both ends, 3d and 5th nearly reaching the 

 lower border, 4th and 6th confined to the upper border ; ner- 

 vures and poisers yellow, the former brown towards the tip of the 

 wing. (Length of body Is line; of wings 2| lines.) 



In the south of England during the summer; but not 

 common. 



Musca marginata, Linn, is nearly allied to the genus Urellia, 

 but has a larger scutellum, and the spots on its wings are 

 altogether different. 



Greyish tawny ; legs yellow ; wings white, spotted along the upper 

 border and at the tip. (Fig. 18.) 



Tephritis marginata . Fallen, Dipt. Suec. Ortal. 7, 8. 

 Trypeta marginata . Meig. Europ. Zweifluq. Ins. V. 322. 

 17. PI. XLIX. fig. 15. 



Body downy, clothed with white hairs ; head with a few bristles 

 above (those in front black, those behind white), round the eyes 

 and beneath white, behind black ; mouth and borders of peristoma 

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