78 DESCRIPTIONS OF THE 



Trypetae leontodontis } Meig. Europ. Zweifltig. Ins. V. 



et confusa . . . i 385. 337. 35. 37. PI. L. fig. 8, 9 



Acinia claripennis . . . Desvoidy, Essai sur les MyodaireSf 



778. 7. 



Head tawny above, darkly brown behind, yellow and clothed with 

 white hairs beneath ; mouth, antennae, and borders of peristoma 

 tawny ; throat dark brown ; thorax tawny beneath ; metathorax 

 and abdomen greyish brown ; underside of the former black and 

 shining in the middle, of the latter tawny ; telum black ; legs 

 tawny, clothed with black hairs, thighs greyish tawny, outer sides 

 of fore-thighs clothed with white hairs ; wings white, each with 

 two broad black sprinkled branching bands, more or less diffused, 

 often joined together in the middle ; costa and nervures yellow, 

 brown towards the tip of the wing ; poisers yellow. (Length of 

 body 1^ — 2 lines ; of wings 3§ — 4 lines.) 



In England and Scotland during the summer and autumn. 



Sp. 6. Acin. hyoscyami. Grey, telum black, wings limpid 

 with ttvo narrow black bands. (Fig. 25.) 



Musca hyoscyami . . Linn. Syst. Nat. II. 998; Faun. 



Suec. 1873; Gmel. Syst. Nat. V. 



2856. 120; Stew. II. 262. 

 Tephritis hyoscyami . Fallen, Dipt. Suec. Ortal. 9. 12. 

 Trypeta hyoscyami . Meig. Etirop. Zweijlug. Ins. V. 337. 



38. PI. L. fig. 2. 



Grey, paler beneath ; head tawny above, darker behind, yellow and 

 clothed with white hairs beneath ; mouth, antennae, and borders 

 of peristoma tawny ; metathorax black and shining beneath ; 

 telum black ; legs tawny, clothed with black hairs, thighs darker; 

 wings limpid, inclining to white, each with two narrow black 

 sprinkled bands joined to the upper border, one on the middle of 

 the wing very short, the other nearer the tip, and reaching nearly 

 to the lower border ; disk of the wing with many little irregular 

 dots ; nervures and poisers yellow, the former brown at their tips. 

 (Length of body 1| line ; of wings 3| lines.) 

 Very rare in England. 



Sp. 7. Acin. flavicauda. Greyish brown, telum rvst-colour, 

 winys limpid, each with two dark-grey branching baitds. 

 (Fig. 26.) 



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