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base of the stigma and extends to the discal arcolet or to the 



externo-medial areolet beyond it. T. lunalo-fasciatce, Schumm. 



c. Abdomen ashy-grey. Species 25. 



c c. Abdomen luteous or testaceous. Species 26-30. 

 a a. Fork of the first externo-medial veiu sessile. 



b. Abdomen without stripes. T. unicolores, Schumm. Species 31. 

 b b. Abdomen with three or four whole or interrupted brown or 



black stripes. T. vittatce, Schumm. 



c. Wings with a dark brown costa. Species 32, 33. 



c c. Wings with a pale brown or brownish-yellow costa. 

 d. Side stripes of the thorax straight. Species 34. 

 d d. Side stripes of the thorax curved. Species 35. 

 b b b. Abdomen with luteous or yellow bands. T. fasciatee, Schumm. 



Species 36, 37. 

 b b b b. Abdomen almost black, with two rows of yellow spots, which 



are sometimes almost confluent, and form two stripes. T. seriato- 



maculata, Schumm. T. pratensis, L., belongs to this section, and 



has been recorded as British, perhaps erroneously. 



1. lutescens, F. S. A. 24. 6 (1805); Meig. ; Mcq. ; Schumm.; 

 Gimm. ; Sta3g. ; Koss. (V.). -fulmpennis, D. G. ; Meig. Klass. Cana, 

 thorace vittis quatuor fuscescentibus, alis macula apud stigma strigaque 

 costali albidis, stigmate fulvo, abdomine vitta nigricante, pedibus tes- 

 taceis; Mas, alis cinereis; Teem, alis luridis. Long. 8-11; alar. 18- 

 22 lin. 



Hoary. Proboscis ferruginous. Palpi brownish. Antennae tawny. 

 Thorax testaceous in front and along each side, with four pale brown- 

 ish stripes with darker borders, the outer pair short. Wings with a 

 whitish spot by the stigma, and a whitish streak between the stigma 

 and the base, slightly clouded with grey towards the tips, and with a 

 grey spot between the subanal vein and the anal vein ; stigma tawny. 

 Halteres blackish, whitish at the base of the club, which is hoary. 

 Abdomen with a blackish stripe along each side ; tip ferruginous. Legs 

 testaceous, pubescent ; tips of the femora ferruginous. Male. Wings 

 grey. Fern. Wings lurid. 



Not rare. (E. S. I.) 



2. gigantea, Schr. Beitr. (1776); I. A. 845 (1781) ; Gmel. ; Latr. ; 

 Meig. ; Mcq. ; Schumm. ; Gimm. ; Stseg. ; Eoss. (V.) ; Zett. rivosa, 

 Scop. Ent. Cam. 318. 846 (1763). sinuata, F. ; Gmel. hortorum, 

 Herbst. Ferruginea, thorace cano vittis tribus fuscis, alis cinereis apud 

 costam fuscis, vitta discali albida, femoribus tibiisque apice tarsisque 

 nigris. Long. 10-13; alar. 22-26 lin. 



Ferruginous, with whitish tomentum. Antenna not twice the length 

 of the proboscis. Palpi black, ferruginous towards the base. Thorax 

 hoary, with three brown stripes; incisures, postscutellum, and pectus 

 whitish. Wings brown in front, grey behind, both colours indented 

 by a whitish irregular angular discal stripe. Abdomen grey at the tip. 



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