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study for many years. I have pleasure in forwarding Dr. Meade’s 
notes on the subject.—Prrrer Incupatp; Fulwith Grange, near 
Harrogate, May, 1886. 
CECIDOMYIA MURICAT, sp. n. 
Nigra; antenne 17-articulate, mas et foem., articuli, mas 
petiolati, foem. sessiles; epistoma cirro albido ornatum; thorax 
nigrescens, vittis tribus atro-micantibus signatus, crinibus albidis 
lateribusque vestitus; humeri flavi; scutellum flavum  baso 
nigrum; abdomen rufo-fuscum, albo-pilosum ; apex cum forcipite 
pallidus, mas; oviductus elongatus tenuisque, absque lamellis in 
foem.; pedes fusci, subtus albo-pilosi, geniculis tarsisque apice 
sanguineis; ale cinerez, nervo cubitali recto. Long. mas 1}, 
foem. 13-2 mm. 
Head, with forehead and occiput, black, clothed with white 
hairs; face brownish yellow, inner margins of eyes bordered by a 
yellow line; epistome furnished with a tuft of yellowish-white 
hairs; palpi pale yellow; antenne blackish brown, seventeen- 
jointed in both sexes, nearly as long as the body in the male, 
about half the length in the female; joints petiolated in the 
former, sessile in the latter, verticillated with white hairs in both; 
joints and petioles about equal in length in the male along the 
proximal two-thirds of the antenne, then decreasing a little in 
size, and becoming rather nearer together towards the end; in 
the female the joints lessen gradually in size towards the apex of 
the antenne, the last joint being taper in form, and half as long 
again as the penultimate one. ‘Thorax dark brown, marked with 
three broad, longitudinal, shining black stripes, which are 
confluent in front and become indistinct towards the back of 
the thorax; the sides are thinly clothed with white hairs, which 
form a small tuft in front of the root of each wing ; a few scattered 
white hairs are arranged in two short longitudinal lines on the 
middle of the dorsum; the shoulder points are marked with a 
yellow spot; the roots of the wings are bright red. Scutellum 
black at the base and reddish yellow at the end and sides, from 
whence the same colour extends to the sides of the thorax and — 
bases of the wings. Metathorax black. Abdomen of a uniform 
reddish-brown colour, darker in the male than female; the first 
segment is black, and in dried specimens the posterior margins 
of the segments are darkened; the edges and sides of the 
ENTOM.— JUNE, 1886. se 
