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ANNOTATED LIST OF BRITISH ANTnOMYIIDM. 

 I!Y K. ir. MEADE. 

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5. LIMNOPHOEA, Desv. ^^ ; , y, /^^T ^ 

 Gen. cli. — Eyes bare, contip^uous or approximate in the males ; 

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

 marked ou 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 I'eaching the margin of the wing. 



1. COMPUNCTA, Wdm. 



2. soKOKcrLA, Zett. 



3. TRIANGULIGERA, 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. pertusa, Meig., belong 

 to the genus Spilo(jaster ; while others, as M. riparia, Eall., and M. 

 ti'iangiila. Fall., must be placed in the Coenosia group, the eyes being 

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

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

 puncfa, "Wdm., is the type. AW 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 en the dorsum with two large triangular or sub-qiuidrate 

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

 narrow grey sti'ipe. 



The species are mostly confined to the northern and mountainous 

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

 and 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 ; 

 but several were given me some years ago by Mr. Yerrall, ■which had been captured 

 by him at Rannoch in Scotland. 



L. TRIANGULIGERA, Zett. 

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

 August, 187-i, where it seemed abundant. 



L. CONTRACTIFRONS, Zett. 

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



