1881.! 1Q1 



ANNOTATED LIST OF BRITISH ANTHOMYIIDM. 

 BY R. H. MEADE. 



{continued from 'page 65.) 



5. LIMNOPHOEA, Desv. 

 Gen. eh. — Eyes bare, contiguous or approximate in the males ; 

 arista slightly pubescent or bare ; abdomen oval or conical, and always 

 marked on the dorsum with four or six large triangular or sub-quadrate 

 spots ; alulets well developed, the under scale being longer than the 

 upper; anal vein not reaching the margin o£ the wing. 



1. compuncta, Wdm. 3. teia^guligera, Zett. 



2. SOROKCTTLA, Zett. 4. CONTRACTIFRONS, Zett. 

 5. SEPTEMNOTATA, Zett. 



Several species of a widely different character have been included 

 in this genus, which are only related to each other by having a very 

 short-haired or nearly bare arista, and spotted bodies. Some of these, 

 as M. consimilis, Fall., M. litorea, Fall., and A. pertitsa, Meig., belong 

 to the genus Spilogaster ; while others, as M. ri-paria, Fall., and JJf. 

 triangula, Fall., must be placed in the Ccenosia group, the eyes being 

 widely separated in both sexes. I have thought it better to restrict 

 the name Limnopliora to a small and natural tribe, of which A. com- 

 pimcta, Wdm., is the type. All in this group are of a black colour, 

 with entirely black legs ; more or less fuliginous wings ; and with the 

 Second and third (and sometimes the first) abdominal segments each 

 marked on the dorsum with two large triangular or sub-quadrate 

 lateral spots, separated from each other by a straight, longitudinal, 

 narrow grey stripe. 



The species are mostly confined to the northern and mountainous 

 Darts of Europe, being more common in Scotland than in England ; 

 knd on the continent, finding their chief home in Scandinavia. 



L. compuncta, Meig. 

 Of this, the largest species in the genus, I have not seen an English specimen ; 

 >ut several were given me some years ago by Mr. Verrall, which had been captured 

 >y him at Eannoch in Scotland. 



L. TEIANGULIGERA, Zett. 

 I captured several males of this species on the borders of Loch Katrine, in 

 Lugust, 1874, where it seemed abundant. 



L. COXTKACTIFEONS, Zett. 

 Zetterstedt has described several species which are so closely related to each 



