1892.] 177 



by a raised rounded ridge, much more prominent than that of the 

 species now described, and the furrows on the mesonotum are much 

 shallower and shorter. 



This gall-fly I obtained in June, 1885, out of a bud of the oak. 

 No gall could be seen, and it was not, until this year (1892), examined 

 by Mr. Cameron, who, after careful search, cannot find any description 

 of a fly from an unexpanded bud. 



7, Clarence Place, 



Stonehouse, Devon : 



June 18^, 1892. 



ANNOTATED LIST OF BRITISH TACHINIID/E. 



BY E. H. MEADE. 



{Continued from page 153). 



35.— FRONTINA, Mgn. 

 Gen. c/i. — Head large, somewhat swollen and vesicular ; eyes 

 nude ; frontalia wide and of nearly the same width in both sexes ; 

 facialia ciliated with strong bristles fully half way up ; antennae long, 

 the second joint short, but the third mostly six times longer ; arista 

 bare ; abdomen ovoid, wdth or without discal setae on the middle rings ; 

 wings without cubital appendix, having the fourth vein bent at an 

 angle, and the first posterior cell a little open, terminating near the 

 apex of the wing. 



1 (2) Abdomen yellow 1. Z^p^a, Wdm. 



2 (1) Abdomen black..., 2. nigricans, 'Egg. 



F. L^TA, Wdm. 



T. Jatahilis, Ztt. 

 Frontalia of nearly equal widths in both sexes, central stripe rufous, of about 

 the same width as the sides, which are of a golden-yellow colour ; face oblique, 

 whitish-yellow ; cheeks bare ; facialia strongly but not thickly ciliated nearly to the 

 top ; fronto-orbital bristles partly double in both sexes, extending a little below the 

 root of the arista, rather lower in the male than the female ; antennae with the first, 

 second, and basal half of the third joints yellow, the lower part of the third joint 

 (which is six or seven times longer than the second) being grey ; arista thickened 

 rather beyond the middle ; palpi yellow ; thorax and scutellum covered with golden- 

 yellow pubescence, the former marked by two narrow central stripes, and having two 

 little, detached, nai'row, oblong spots on each side ; the post-sutural outer dorso- 

 central bristles four in number; abdomen yellow and translucent with white 

 reflections, and having a rather indistinct black dorsal band, more marked and wider 

 in the male than female ; the third segment has the posterior margin black ; both 



