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Sp. Carnus hemapterus NITZSCH, GERMAR Magaz. dcr Entomol. m. pp. 305 

 307, E. F. GERMAR Faun. Inseclor. Europ. Fasc. ix. Tab. 24, 25. An 

 animalcule about the size of a flea ; it lives parasitically on Sturnus vulgaris. 

 Abdomen is broader in the female, and terminated by an exsert style. 



ft Wings adapted for flying. 



Stomoxys GEOFFR., FABR. Antennae shorter than head, tri- 

 articulate, with third joint longer than rest, compressed, with 

 dorsal seta. Proboscis exsert, geniculate. Abdomen oval, quadri- 

 annulate. Wings divaricate. 



Bucentes LATR., Siphona MEIG. Seta of antennae triarticulate, 

 naked or downy at the apex. Proboscis geniculate at the base and 

 the middle. 



The larvas of this genus live, like those of the Tachinse, parasitically, in 

 caterpillars; DE GEER Ins. VI. pp. 38, 39; Mouche coudee, PI. 2, figs. 

 1923. 



tSto'moxys MEIG., LATR. Seta of antennae biarticulate, naked or 

 plumose. Proboscis horizontal, geniculate at the base alone. 



Sp. Stomoxys calcitrans, Conops calcitrans L., GEOFFROY Ins. Paris, II. Tab. 

 xvin. fig. i, SCHELLENBERG, PI. 17, fig. i, GuERiN Iconogr. Ins., PL 101, 

 fig. 8 ; grey, with abdomen spotted black. This fly fixes itself on the legs 

 of cattle, and in rainy weather, especially at the end of summer, enters our 

 houses and attacks our legs ; the uninitiated fancy that the house-flies are 

 then pricking, and so confound this species with Musca domestica. 



Myopa FABR. Antennae shorter than head, with second joint 

 longer, or second and third sub-equal, the third ovate or globose, 

 stylate at the back. Proboscis exsert, geniculate. Abdomen 

 elongate, inflected downwards. Wings parallel, incumbent. Ocelli 

 three. 



Zodion LATR. Proboscis geniculate at the base alone. 



Myopa LATR. Proboscis geniculate at the base and the middle. 



Add sub-genera : Stachynia MACQ. (Dalmannia EOBIK), Stylo- 

 gaster MACQ. 



Conops L., (exclusive of species). Antennas porrect, of length 

 of head, with first joint cylindrical, second and third forming a 

 fusiform club. Style of antenna apical, biarticulate. Proboscis 

 exsert, geniculate at the base. Abdomen elongate, sexannulate, 

 inflected. Wings parallel, incumbent. Ocelli none. 



