BRITISH TEPHRITITES. 



77 



ders of the cross nervures brown ; nervures yellow, brown at the 

 tip or the wing ; poisers yellow. (Length of body 2 lines ; of 

 ■wings 3 1 lines.) 



Very rare in England. 



Sp. 4. Acin. heraclei. Dark tawny, wings limpid with two 

 spreading black bands. (Fig. 23.) 



Musca heraclei 



Tephritis heraclei 

 Trypeta heraclei 

 Acinia plantaris . 



Linn. Syst. Nat. II. 998; Faun. Suec. 



1877 ; Gmel. Sys. Nat. V. 2858. 125 ; 



Fabr. Ent. Syst. IV. 354. 172. 

 Fabr. Syst. Ant. Til. 21. 

 Mdg. Europ. Zweifliig. Ins. V. SSS. 39. 

 Desvoidy, Essai sur les Myodaires, 



778. 6. 



Dark tawny, paler beneath ; head tawny above, yellow and clothed 

 with black and white hairs beneath ; mouth and antennae tawny ; 

 telum rust-colour, of the female black at the tip ; legs reddish 

 yellow, clothed with black and white hairs ; wings limpid, slightly 

 yellow at the base, with two spreading black bands, one through 

 the middle of the wing, and inclining towards the tip below, the 

 other near the tip, much broader ; nervures yellow, their tips 

 brown ; poisers bright yellow. (Length of body 2 — 2^ lines, of 

 wings 3f — 4 lines.) 



South of England, during the autumn. 



Sp. 5. Acin. leontodontis. Brown, wings ivhite, with two 

 broad black branching bands. (Fig. 24.) 



Musca leontodontis 



Musca stellata . 



Musca parietina 



Musca scabiosae . . 

 Dacus scabiosae 

 Trupanea leontodontis 

 Tephritis parietina 

 Tephritis leontodontis 



Degeer, Ins. VI. 46. 17. PI. II. 



fig. 15—18. 

 Sulzer, Ins. 216. PI. XXVIII. fig. 



12. c ; Fuesly Schweiz. Ins. 



1125 ; Panz. Faun. Germ. XX. 23. 

 Fabr. Mant. Ins. II. 351. 96; Sp. 



/w.9. II. 450. 79; Ent. Syst. IN. 



350. 154. 

 Fabr. Ent. Syst. IV. 361. 200. 

 Fabr. Syst. Antl. 278. ^Q. 

 Schrank, Fauna Boica, III. 2519. 

 Fabr. Syst. Antl. 319. 13. 

 Fallen, Dipt. Suec. Ortal. 9. 13. 



