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ANNOTATED LIST OF BETTISII TACniNIIDM. 



BY R. n. MEADE. 



{Concluded from page 237). 



40.— SCOPOLIA, Dsv. 



PnoEiCHETA, End. 



Gen. cli. — Species small, black, and glabrous, with oblong conical 

 bodies ; eyes bare ; frontalia wide in both sexes ; cheeks narrow, and 

 armed with a long row of strong bristles, continuous above with 

 the inner fronto-orbital setae, which are in a double row in both 

 sexes ; facialia bare ; chin large and setose ; antennoe long, the third 

 joint being from three to five times as long as the second ; arista bare ; 

 abdomen mostly with both discal and marginal setae ; wings with the 

 third longitudinal vein ciliated from the root to the little cross vein, 

 or to a little beyond it ; first posterior cell closed, and with a longer 

 or shorter stalk, outer cross vein situated nearly midway between the 

 inner cross vein and the bend of the fourth. 



1 (2) Palpi black, and wing stalk short 1. tricincta,'K\\d.. 



2 (1) Palpi pale, and wing stalk long. 



3 (4) Antennse narrow, and pale at the base 2. carhonaria, Pz. 



4 (3) Antennse thick, and quite black 3. lugens, Mgn. 



S. TEICIIfCTA, End. 

 Frontal stripe subrufous ; sides of frontalia and face grey, with dark reflections ; 

 antennce black or grey, with third joint thick, and only about three times the length 

 of the second ; arista thickened nearly to the middle ; palpi black ; thorax black, 

 rather ceneous, marked in front with three short, wide, black stripes, and having 

 some white pubescence on the shoulders and sides ; post-sutural outer dorso-central 

 bristles three in number ; abdomen shining black, with a narrow white band on the 

 front margins of the second, third and fourth segments, which are armed with both 

 discal and marginal setee ; wings slightly tinged with brown, having the apical cross 

 vein deeply incurved and joining the third near the costa, leaving a short stalk not 

 more than a fourth or fifth of the length of the outer cross vein, which is slightly 

 curved and placed a little nearer to the bend of the fourth than to the little cross 

 vein ; a short cubital appendix is sometimes present ; third longitudinal vein ciliated 

 as far as little cross vein ; veins not nebulous. 



This well marked species is not common. I captured it near Bradford in 1876, 

 and again at Silverdale in Lancashire in 1881. 



S CAEBONARIA, Pz. 

 Characters of head and face as in the former species, with the exception of 

 having the palpi yellow, and the antennsB rather longer, much nai-rower, with their 

 bases testaceous ; the thorax is also similar ; the abdomen is entirely black and less 

 setose ; the wings are fuliginous, with the fore borders very dark, and the veins 

 nebulous ; the apical cross vein is much less curved tlian in S. tricincta, and the 



