BRITISH TEPHRITITES. 79 



Trypeta flavicauda . . Meig. Europ. Zweijlug. Ins. V. 



Aciniae pedicular' um > Desvoidy, Essai sur les Myodaires, 



arctii et annulata ^ 776, 777. 2 — 4 

 Tephritis Theora . . Newm. Ent. Mag. I. 506. 



Head tawny above, pale yellow, and clothed with white hairs 

 beneath, almost white round the eyes and in the grooves ; peri- 

 stoma bordered with yellow ; mouth pale yellow ; antennas 



. tawny, 3d joint yellow: thorax beneath, metathorax and abdomen 

 grey, posterior segments of the latter with hardly seen spots on 

 each side ; telum dark rust-colour, of the female black at either 

 end ; legs tawny, clothed with black hairs ; wings limpid, each 

 with two broad sprinkled dark-grey branching bands, occupying 

 almost the whole of the wing, their colour darker as they approach 

 the costa, which, like the nervures, is black, changing to yellow 

 towards the base. (Length of body \\ — 2 lines ; of wings 8g — 4 

 lines.) 



Common in the south and west of England, during the 

 autumn. 



Sp. 8. Acin. absinthii. Dark grey, like flavicauda, but 

 smaller, telum black, bands of wings more spreading. 

 (Fig. 27.) 



Musca cinereus . . Harris, Exp. 75. PI. XXI. fig. 11. 



Tephritis absinthii . Fabr. Syst. Anil. 322. 30. 



Tephritis punctella. Fallen, Dipt. Suec. Ortal. 13. 21. 



Trypeta absinthii . Meig. Europ. Zweijlug. Ins. V. 340. 42. 



Acinia millefolii . Desvoidy, Essai sur les Myodaires, 111. 5. 



Tephritis Alethe . Newm. Ent. Mag. I. 506. 



Dark grey, almost black ; head tawny above, pale yellow and 

 clothed with white hairs beneath, white round the eyes and in the 

 grooves ; peristoma bordered with yellow ; mouth pale yellow ; 

 antennae reddish-yellow ; abdomen hoary beneath ; telum black ; 

 legs tawny, clothed with black hairs ; coxae, trochanters, and 

 thighs grey •, wings with two dark grey bands joined together and 

 reaching over the whole surface, varied with numerous little limpid 

 spots and circles, darker towards the fore border; nervures 

 brown, changing to yellow at the base of the wing ; poisers bright 

 yellow. (Length of body 1 — Ig line; of wings 2| — Sj lines.) 



Common in England and Scotland during the summer and 

 autumn. 



