NATURAL HISTORY. 



I have little doubt of this small fly being an Anthomyia, but as neither of the spe- 

 cimens had any setse to the antennte, I cannot determine the genus with certainty. 



*Gen. 1293.— SCATOPHAGA. (Meig.) 



33. Apicalis. Cinereous, very pubescent, face, apex of abdomen, and legs, cas- 

 taneous. 



Male, four lines two-thirds long, eleven broad ; female, four lines long, nine broad. 



Male. Cinereous, thickly clothed with fine long brown hairs, especially the abdomen 

 and legs ; antennse blackish, two basal joints rufous, seta slightly pubescent only; lip 

 horny and black ; head with a furcate space before the crown, the face and palpi 

 reddish-orange; thorax with a double ash-coloured line down the middle, and an 

 obscure one on each side ; abdomen elongate-ovate, with the margin of the third seg- 

 ment, and the following joints, entirely ferruginous; wings tinged with yellow, the 

 costa and base of a much deeper and brighter colour, the nervures ochreous, excepting 

 the two transverse ones, which are fuscous, and suffused, as well as the longitudinal 

 ones connecting them ; halteres and legs pale castaneous. 



Female much less hairy, especially the abdomen and legs, the former being ovate, 

 the second segment sometimes having the margin ferruginous, and a greater portion of 

 the third, as well as the apex, of the same colour. 



A male and two females of this handsome species were preserved. 



34. Fucorum. (Fall.) " Obscure cinereous ; thorax with four black lines; palpi, 

 antennae, and legs, black." — Meig. 



Male, length three hnes, breadth six lines ; female rather smaller. 



Meig : Syst. BescL—\o\. v., p. 253, n. 14; tab. 45, f 29. 



This insect is common in Sweden amongst seaweeds, from which circumstance 

 Fallen has named it P«fo;'»M. Commander Ross brought home a pair of flies that 

 agree so well with the above description of Meigen, that I consider them identical, 



* Curtis's Brit. Ent.- vol. ix., fol. 405. 



