8^ DESCRIPTIONS OF THE 



the shape of Anomoia, but the lower cross nervure of the wing is 

 short and straight. 



Body smooth, shining ; peristoma rounded, longer than broad ; 

 epistoma prominent ; mouth hairy ; lip bent ; feelers stout ; 3d 

 joint of antennae cylindric, rather long ; scutellum prominent, 

 semicircular, not hiding the metathorax ; abdomen oval, of the 

 male narrower than of the female ; telum of female very short, 

 scarcely reaching beyond the abdomen ; wings ample. 



Sp. 1. Eul. onopordinis. Rust colour or dark brown ; legs 

 yellow ; wings limpid, along the upper border of each a 

 large brown mark, varied with limpid spots, and sending 

 forth several branches to the lower border. (Fig. 30.) 



Muscacoesio .... Harris, Exp. 75. PI. XXI. fig. 8. 

 Musca onopordinis . . Fabr. Mant. Ins. II. 353. 125 ; 



Spec. Ins. II. 455. 104; Ent. 



Syst. IV. 360. 198 ; Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. V. 2859. 252; Stew. II. 



26S. 

 Musca centaureae . . Fabr. Ent. Syst. IV. 360. 199. 

 Scatophaga onopordinis . Fabr. Syst. Antl. 210. 31. 

 Tephritis centaureae . . Fabr. Syst. Antl. 322. 28. 

 Tephritis onopordinis . Fall. Dipt. Suec. Ortal. 15. 25. 

 Trypeta onopordinis . . Meig. Europ. Zweiflug. Ins. V. 



316. PI. XLVIII. fig. 24. 

 Trypeta centaureae . . Meig. Europ. Zweifiug. Ins. V. 



324. PI. XLIX. fig. 8. 



Body varying from rust colour to dark brown, paler beneath ; head 

 tawny, with a few black bristles above, pale yellow or almost 

 white beneath ; mouth tawny ; feelers and antennae 'yellow ; 

 thorax clothed with a few white hairs and black bristles, a black 

 dot on each side above the base of the wing, on the disk some- 

 times alternate dark and pale bands ; scutellum sometimes yellow ; 

 metathorax black, shining, sometimes with a tawny stripe through 

 the middle ; abdomen clothed above with black hairs and a few 

 black bristles ; telum black ; legs yellow, clothed with white and 

 black hairs, the thighs also with some black bristles ; wings 

 limpid, a large brown changing mark covering the upper half of 

 the wing, paler at the base, in it are four limpid spots of various 

 sizes and shapes, and it sends four or five branches that join the 

 lower border of the wing ; nervures brown, yellow at the base ; 



