THE MYCETOPHILIDA. 135 
larvee has been mentioned before (pp. 97, 98). The maggot of a Scio- 
Phila is figured on page 96. (Fig. 15 A.) 
Grenus.—LZmpalia, Wiz. 
‘The costal vein does not extend to the tip of the wing ; the base 
of the fourth hind areolet a little nearer to the base of the wing than 
is the base of the second hind areolet. The petiole of the latter 
moderately long. | 
E.. vitripennis, Mg. 
Blackish-brown. Head dark brown ; proboscis and palpi yellow- 
ish ; antennz brown, tawny at base. Thorax dark brown, yellowish 
on each side. Abdomen dark brown, ferruginous at the tip ; lamellz 
of @ yellow, and the ovipositor and anal segments. Legs light 
yellow ; tarsi dark brown; base of legs brown; femora with dark 
spots at the apex ; the end of the posterior femora and tibia brown ; 
anterior tibia with two, middle and posterior with three rows of 
dark spines; the anterior tibia much longer than the metatarsi. 
Wings sometimes brownish, pale at the base ; fourth and fifth veins 
pale. Length 12 to 24 lin. 
GrENus.—LEmpheria, Wz. 
The first longitudinal vein does not extend to the tip of the wing ; 
the base of the fourth hind areolet is much nearer the base of the 
wing than is the base of the second hind areolet. 
E. pictipennis, Hal. 
Yellowish. Thorax yellowish-brown, sides pale. Abdomen has first 
and second segments unspotted ; third and fourth blackish-brown 
with testaceous hind border, fifth and sixth almost black : hypopygium 
yellowish ; lamellz of ovipositor yellow. Head yellow, front and 
vertex brownish; proboscis yellow; palpi and antennz brownish, 
the latter yellowish at the base (first and second joints), scarcely as 
long as the head and thorax together. Wings with two brown 
bands ; one in the middle of the wing, passing beyond the areolet, 
and “sinuated thence to the hind border; the other sub-apical, 
extending to the tip of the radial vein.” 
Legs pale yellow ; tibia brownish ; tarsi brown ; anterior tibia some- 
times longer than the metatarsi. Length 1} to 2 lin. Appears in 
October. This is a rare species; it was found in Kent, and 
described by Mr. Haliday.* Mr. Dale records this also from Glan- 
ville Wootton in the Ant. Mo. Mag., 2nd series., vol. 1, p. 109 
(1890. 
* Ent. Mag., I. 156 (1833), and Winnertz, Verh. d. Zool. Bot, Ges., xiii. 
PP- 742-745 (1863). 
