BRITISH FLIES 



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the wing-tip ; third veinlet from the discal cell abruptly 

 recurrent and closing the fourth posterior cell. 



XI. Apiocerid^-:. 

 (not European) 



Fig. 47. — Apiocera iiKtrens (5. x 2A. 



TliL' Apiocerid(t consist of about a dozen .species from America and 

 Australia, one from South Africa, and perhaps one from Ceylon. 



23 (22) Face rather long and always bearing (on at least its lower part) 

 a face-beard which overhangs the mouth. 



Fig. 48. — I'hilonictis alhiceps J. 



3. 



Palpi never spatulate. Antennic with or without an apical 

 style or arista. Scutellum large or moderate sized, not con- 

 cealing the metanotum. Venation not similar to that of the 



