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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE 



NoEETA. — Desvoidy. 



Body much arched, scutellum smooth and shining, wings black, 

 with limpid dots. 



Peristoma rather longer than broad ; epistoma not in the least pro-*J 

 minent ; mouth short ; palpi moderate ; 3d joint of antennae veryy 

 short, convex beneath, slightly concave above, and turned up- - 

 wards at the tip, 6th joint long ; thorax very convex ; scutellum i 

 very smooth, shining, convex, semicircular, prominent, almost t 

 concealing the metathorax ; abdomen much arched ; telum con- - 

 vex, longer than half the abdomen, very broad at the base, 

 suddenly narrow and compressed towards the tip ; wings black,' 

 varied with numerous little limpid circles. 



Sp. 1. Noee. guttularis. Brown ; scutellum, metathorax, , 

 and telum black; legs tawny, with black thighs. (Fig. 28.) 



Trypeta guttularis .... Meig. Europ. Zweijlug. Ins. V. 



341. 44. 

 Noeetas flavipes et brunicosa. Desvoidy, Essai sur les Myo- 



daires, 778, 779. 1, 2. 



Head tawny in front, with a few black bristles before and white 

 bristles behind, beneath very pale yellow clothed with white 

 hairs, rich brown behind ; antennae yellow ; thorax rich brown, 

 clothed above with white hairs and black bristles, and varied with 

 little black spots round the bristles, and with some hardly seen 

 brown stripes, pale tawny beneath ; scutellum and metathorax 

 black, shining ; abdomen dark brown, almost black, clothed with 

 tawny hairs ; telum black ; legs tawny ; coxae and thighs black, 

 the latter armed with black bristles ; wings black, the disk with 

 a few, the borders with many little limpid circles ; nervures 

 brown, yellow towards the base of the wing ; poise rs yellow. 

 (Length of body 1| — 2 lines; of wings 2 — 3§ lines.) 



Found but rarely in England and Scotland during the 

 autumn. 



Anomoia.*^ 



Has the 3d joint of the antennae much longer and more cylindric, 

 and the lower cross nervure of the wing much longer and more 

 slanting than the other Tephritites. 



Body broad, flat, downy; head short, not narrowed or lengthened 

 in front ; peristoma six-sided, scarcely longer than broad, front 



' 'Avofwtos, dispar. 



