leprintedfrom "The Entomologist's Monthly 2Iagaziiie,'' J'ol. xviii.] 



1882.] 201 



ANNOTATED LIST OF BRITISH ANTIIOMYIIJDM. 



BY U. ir. MEADE. 



{continued from page 17G.) 



12. HOMALOMTIA, ]?()ucbe. 

 Gen. cli. — Head smooth and semi-circular; eyes large, covering 

 the sides of the head ; bare, and sub-contiguous or approximate, in th(; 

 males ; arista sub-pubescent or bare, with the second joint often rather 

 elongated ; alulets of moderate or small size, with the scales more or 

 less unequal ; abdomen mostly elliptical and flattened in the males, 

 and marked with an angulated dorsal stripe ; oval and immaculate in 

 the females ; wings with the anal vein shortened, and the axillary vein 

 curved towards its extremity ; legs with the middle tibiae tuberculated. 

 or thickened and ciliated, in the males. 



Sect. 1^ — Legs more or less jyale. 



APKICA, Hal. 

 JPasserinii, E-ond. 



2. FuscuLA, Fall. 



3. PALLiTiBijE, Eond. 



Sect. 2 — Legs ivlioJh/ or nearly hlacTc. 

 Div. i — Mai feres jjff/e. 



10. HERNiosA, Eond. 



11. MUTICA, Zett. 

 lepida ?, Wdm. 



12. SOCIELLA, Zett, 



13. SERENA, Fall. 

 luguhrina ?, Zett. 



14. PLORicoLA, Meig. 

 cilicrura, Eond. 



4. scALARis, Fab. 

 saltatrix, Desv. 



^ 5. CANICULAEIS, Lin. 



21. domestica minor, Deg. 



6. IXCISUEATA, Zett. 



7. MANiCATA, Meig. 



'peniculata ?, Eond. 



8. AEMATA, Meig. 



9. SPISSATA, sp. n. j 



armata ?, Macq. ' 



Div. ii — Hallcres hlach. 



15. CAEBOXAKIA, Eoud. 



cerea ?, Meig. 

 This is one of the best defined and most natural groups among 

 the AnthomjiiidcB. It includes the Chorellice of E. Desvoidy, so named 

 from the habit of the males to perform choral dances in the air. The 

 peculiar structure of the last two longitudinal veins of the ning (see 

 fig.*) is common to this and the three following allied genera, viz., 

 Coelomjjia, Haliday, Fiezui^a, Eondani, and Azelia, Desvoidy. 



* Wing of H. aprica. 



