DIPTEROUS PARASITES. 



1915 



DIPTEROUS PARASITES OF EUROPEAN BUTTERFLIES. 



Polygonia I-album. 

 Eugonia polychloros. 



Hamadryas io. 



Euvanessa amiopa. 



Aglais urticae. 



Araschnia levana. 



Vanessa eardui. 

 Argynnis sp. 

 Cinclidia athalia. 

 Aurotis quercus. 

 Mancipium brassicae. 



Pieris rapae. 



Papilio machaon. 



Masicera piipiphaga Rondani, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital., x, 32. 

 Exorista inclinataMacquart, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., (2) vii,386, 44. 

 Tachiua rustica Meigen. (Also parasitic on Liparis salieis, Bombyx 



quercus, B. neustria, fide Schiner, Fauna, etc., i, 474). 

 Tachiua larvarum Linn6 : Hartig, Jahresb. u. d. Fortschr. d. Forstw., 



i, 278, 1837. 

 Tachiua agilis Meigen: Schiner, Fauna, etc., i, 477. 

 Phorocera concinnata Meigen: Desvoidy, Hist. Nat. d. Dipt. etc. 



(Doria). 

 Masicera vanessa Desvoidy, Hist. Nat. d. Dipt, etc., ii (Sturmia). 

 Erycia vanessae Desvoidy, Ann. Soc. Ent.Fr., (2), vii, 170 (? Masi- 

 cera). 

 Masicera bremii Macquart, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., (2), viii, 476. 

 Exorista puella Meigen : Desvoidy, Hist. Nat. etc. 

 Tachiua bella Meigen : Schiner, Fauna, etc., i,478. (Also parasitic 



on Liparis dispar, Schiner, 1. c). 

 Besaldia vanessae Rob. Desvoidy, Hist. Nat. etc. 

 Phorocera iovera Desvoidy, Essai sur les Myod. 

 Phorocera concinnata Meigen : Desvoidy, Hist. Nat. etc. 

 Phorocera antiopae Desvoidy, Essai sur les Myod. 

 Tachiua agilis Meigen : Schiner, Fauna, etc. i, 477. 

 Exorista ferina Desvoidy : v. d. Wulp, Tijdsehr. v. ent., xii, 17. 

 Phryxe vanessae Desvoidy, Hist. Nat. etc. 

 Phorocera assimilis Fallen: Schiner, Fauna, etc. i, 491. 

 Phorocera concinnata Meigen : Desvoidy, Essai sur les Myod., 134, 8 



(P. prorsae). 

 Phorocera petrosa Desvoidy, Hist. Nat. etc. (Pales vernalis Desv.). 

 Phryxe vanessae Desvoidy, Hist. Nat. etc. 

 Phryxe puella Desvoidy, Hist. Nat. etc. 

 Tachiua doris Meigen : Schiner, Fauna, etc., i, 476. 

 Masicera vanessa Desvoidy, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., (2), viii, 158. 

 Exorista vulgaris Fallen ; Desvoidy. 

 Exorista confinis Fallen; Wachtl, Wien. Ent. Zeit.,i, 278. 

 Phorocera concinnata Meigen ; Bouche, Naturg. d. Ins., 1834, 57, pi. 



V, fl". 15-19. 

 Phorocera munda Meigen. 



Exorista hortulana Meigen : Beuthiu, Hamb. Ver. Naturw., 1887, 36, 

 Phorocera concinnata Meigen : Desvoidy, Hist. Nat. etc. (Doria): 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., (2), viii, 179 (P. viridis) : Loew, in litt. Scudder. 

 Phorocera pusilla Desvoidy, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., (2), viii, 181. 

 Exorista vulgaris Fallen. 

 Tachiua larvarum Linne ; V. d. Wulp, Tijdsehr. v. Ent., xii, 18. 



Table of species of dipterous parasites. 



Proboscis slender, horny, projecting beyond the oral margin, with small labella; eyes bare 



Acroglossa hesperidarum. 

 Proboscis short, fleshy, veith broad labella. 



Eyes bare; palpi yellow; second abdominal segment without anterior pair of bristles 

 (Masicera). 

 Second abdominal segment with a pair of posterior bristles. 



Antennae and abdomen wholly black (i ? ); claws and pulvilli of male elongate... 



M. frenchii. 

 Third antenna! joint at the base, and the sides of the abdominal segments largely 



red; claws and pulvilli of male not elongate M. archippivora 



Second segment without bristles; abdomen on the sides broadly red M.riloyl 



