BRITISH TEPHHITITES. 75 



Tephritis terminata . Fall6n, Dipt. Suec. Ortal. 13. 20. 

 Trypette terminata et | Meig. Etirop. Zweijlug. Ins, V. 343. 



radiata .... j 47, 48. PL L. %. 3, 10. 

 Urellia calcitrapae . Desvoidy, Essai sur les Myodaires, 



774. 1. 



Head above pale yellow, with a curved black spot above the base of 

 the antennae; peristoma pale brown inside ; 3d joint of antenna? 

 brown above ; legs yellow, thighs almost white ; star on the wing 

 black ; a small black spot of the same colour on the middle of the 

 5th nervure ; costa black, yellow towards the base of the wing. 

 (Length of body | — 1| lines ; of wings 2 — 2| lines.) 



In the south and west of England during the autumn. 



AciN lA. — Desvoidy. 



Bands on the wings, broad, spotted, often passing into each other. 



Body short, downy, hairy, varying in colour from saffron to black ; 

 head rounded, scarcely narrower in front, with some bristles above, 

 those in front black, those behind white ; peristoma angular, 

 longer than broad, almost white ; epistoma not prominent ; mouth 

 short, clothed with white hairs ; feelers not thickened ; antennae 

 short ; 3d joint almost oval, flat above, with a slight notch before 

 the tip, convex beneath ; thorax clothed with white hairs and a 

 few black bristles ; scutellum short, almost semicircular, scarcely 

 hiding the metathorax ; abdomen clothed with black and white 

 hairs, the former more prevalent at the tip ; telum of the female 

 broad, flat, gradually narrowing from the base to the tip, much 

 shorter than half the abdomen ; wings banded, the bands varied 

 with numerous little limpid or white circles. 



Sp. 1. Acin. corniculata. Saffron colour, wings limpid, 

 with four broad brown bands. (Fig. 20.) 



Tephritis corniculata . Fallen, Dipt. Suec. Ortal. 8. 11. 

 Trypeta corniculata . Meig.Europ. Zweijlug. Ins.Y. 335. 34. 

 Acinia jaceae . . . Desvoidy, Essai sur les Myodaires, 

 776. 1. 



Dull saffron colour, paler beneath ; head beneath yellow, and clothed 

 with black and white hairs ; mouth and antennae yellow, 3d joint 

 of latter rich yellow ; metathorax reddish yellow ; a hardly seen 

 brown spot on the sides at the base of each abdominal segment ; 

 plates beneath reddish yellow ; telum rust colour, of female black at 

 the tip ; legs pale tawny, clothed with black and white hairs ; wings 



