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ANNOTATED LIST OF BRITISH ANTIIOMYIIB^. 



BY R. n. MEAUE. 



(^Continued from Vol. x'lx, page 220). 



21. ACANTHIPTERA, Rond. 



Pegomyia, Macq. 



Anthomyia, Meig., Scbiu. 



Anthomyza, Zett. 

 Gen. ch. — Head nearly semi-circular ; eyes bare, approximate in 

 both sexes ; arista loug and pubescent ; alulets well developed, the 

 lower scale being considerably longer than the upper ; abdomen elon- 

 gated, tapering, and sub-cylindrical in the male, ovato-conical in the 

 female : wings with auxiliary vein armed with spines, and anal vein 

 not reaching the margin : legs yellow, elongated (especially in the 

 males), and with large pulvilli. 



A. iNANis, Fall. 

 Only one European species is known in this ratlior peculiar genus ; it has the 

 head similar in shape to those in the genus Homalomyia. The colour is totally yel- 

 low, with the exception of a bluish-grey spot on the dorsum of the thoi-ax, and the 

 joints of the tarsi, all of which are nigrescent in the females, but only those of the 

 hind legs in the males. Not common. The larvae are said to have been found in 

 wasps' nests. 



22. PEGOMYIA, Desv., Macq. 



Anthomyia, Meig., Schin., Eond., p. 



Anthomyza, Zett. 



Chortophila, p., E-ond. 

 Gen. ch. — Eyes bare, contiguous or sub-contiguous in the males, 

 remote in the females ; arista pubescent or bare ; abdomen sub- 

 cylindrical or depressed in the males, ovato-conical in the females ; 

 alulets variable in size, mostly small, but sometimes with the scales 

 pretty well developed and of unequal lengths : wings with the anal 

 veins prolonged to the margin : legs always partly yellow, and abdomen 

 mostly wholly or partially so, as well. 



Sect. 1 — Abdomen ivholly or principally Mack or grey. 



1. BET^, Curtis. 



sulcans ?, Rond. 



2. CONFOKMIS, Fall. 



3. UYOSCTAMi, Panz. 



chenopodii, Roud. 



4. HiEMOKEHOUM, Zett. 



Sect. 2 — Abdomen red or yellow. 

 Div. i — Alulets moderate in size, ivith scales of unequal lenrjth. 



