THE MANGOLD -FLY. 27 



readers of this article possess specimens or living pupte of the 

 mangold, henbane, or goosefoot leaf-blotchers, I hope they will 

 attempt the solution of this s3nionymic problem, or transmit the 

 specimens to Mr. E. H. Meade (Bradford, Yorks). The following 

 life-history references should be consulted : — 



Curtis. ' Journal R.A.S.E.,' vol. viii., p. 412 (1847). .1. hetts. 



Scholtz. ' Breslau Zeit. fiir Ent.,' vol. i.. Dipt , p. 11 (1849). 

 A. beta* 



Nordlinger. ' Die Kleinen Feinde der Landwirthschaft,' 

 p. 556 (1855), A. conformis. 



Curtis. 'Farm Insects,' p. 396 (1859). P. hetce. 



Taschenberg. ' Naturgesch. d. Culturpflanzen schiidl. wir- 

 bellos. Thiere,' pp. 173 — 5 (1865). A. conformis. 



Kaltenbach. ' Die Pflanzenfeinde aus d. k. d. Insekten,' 

 pp. 456, 510, 512 (1872—4). A. hetce. 



Farsky. 'Verb. z-b. Gesell. Wien.' vol. xxix., p. 107 (1880). 

 A. conformis. 



Taschenberg. ' Praktische Insekten-Kunde,' vol. iv., p. 123 

 (1880). A. conformis. 



Holmgren. ' Entomologisk Tidskrift,' vol. i., p. 89 (1880). 

 Alicia hetce. 



Reaumur. ' Mem. pour servir a I'histoire des Insectes,' vol. iii., 

 pp. 13 — 19, pi. ii., fig. 13 — 17 (1737). Feuille mineur de jusquiame. 



Goui-eau. 'Ann Soc. Ent. France,' 2nd ser., vol. ix., pp. 163 — 6, 

 pi. vii., 16 (1851). P. atripUcis. 



Desvoidy. ' Guerin's Rev. et Mag. de Zoologie,' 2nd ser., 

 vol. iii., p. 230 (1851). P. atripUcis. 



There are several further difficulties— Nordlinger's, Taschen- 

 berg's and Farsky's descriptions do not exactly quadrate. Does 

 more than one species blotch the mangold leaves in the larval 

 state ? Are the henbane, Atriplex, and Chenopodium feeders 

 synonymous with our mangold species ? Goureau saj^s, " Le 

 Pegomyie de I'Arroche (P. atripUcis) se jette aussi sur les 

 Betteraves que Ton cultive dans les jardins, et en devoire des 

 feuilles." Robineau-Desvoidy gives similar information, but 



* ■' Anthomyia hetce, mihi (allied to A. exilis, Meig., A. versicolor, Meig., and A. 

 mitis, Fabr.), mines the leaves of Beta triyyna, certainly in companies, according to 

 my own observation, making large blotcbes which sometimes cover the whole leaf." 

 The descriptive part of Dr. Scholtz's papers was not completed, so the description 

 oi A. betce never ai^peareJ. 



