ORTHORRHAPHA 

 BRACHYCERA 



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Bombylidae 



Scenopinidae 



Cyrtidae 



Figs. 49, 50. Bombylius minor L. 

 8 x 22 mm., $ 9 x 21 mm. Ware- 

 ham and Morden Heath, hovering 

 over heather and ditches, probably 

 coincident with a bee host ; seen to 

 be hunting banks, evidently for the 

 object of ovipositing. Distinguished 

 from canescens by white pubescence 

 on frons, in varying amount. (Can- 

 escens could not be found on Ware- 

 ham Heath.) 



Fig. 51. Scenopinus fenestralis L. 5'5xiimm. On 

 windows end of summer and outhouses. (Adams, New 

 Forest.) Larvae found in fungi and wood, and even 

 under carpets. Carnivorous, long and slender, like the 

 Therevidae. (Theobald.) 



Fig. 52. Acroceragfo&u/usPz. ^ Length y^mm., 

 wings 6 mm. (Rushall farm, Salisbury, 3 vi. 

 1909.) Thorax dark brown, abdomen pale yellow. 

 Very sluggish flies, often found settled on old 

 tree trunks and branches of trees around which 

 they fly. 



