Order 12. 



DIPTERA. 



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The terminal Scatoniyzides have the seta simple; the antenna; aavays short anil straii^lit ; they arc small anil 

 glabrous Flies, black, and more or less varied with buff; the Icfi^s strong-, and the eyes large. The upper side of 

 tiie head is flat, with a brown, triangular mask, in which the ocelli are placed. They are found in flowers. Many 

 of their larvK mine the interior of vegetables, and some are very injurious to agriculturists, destroying various 

 cereal plants previous to their fructification. The larva; of Musca Frit sometimes destroy the barley crops in 

 Sweden, to the amount of 100,000 golden ducats in a year, being one-tenth of the produce. The larva; of Oscinta 

 piimilionis and Uneata, Fab., are equally obnoxious. They constitute our genus 



Oscinis, Latr., to which we add the genus CMoropt, 

 ^ ,^-'-!< .Jir7r~Xn Meig., and Piophila, Fallen. 



" ' " " The fifth division (Dolichocera), which em- 



braces the genus Telanoccra, Dura., is closely allied 

 to the preceding, hut the length of the second 

 joint of the antennsc, which equals or surpasses 

 ,, ■^sas^jMs- *^iat of the third, at once distinguishes it. These 



^ organs are porrected, as long as, or longer than, 



Fig. 137.- Piophila cafici. the head, and pointed at the tip. The upper 



surface of the head forms a triangle, obtuse at the tip. 

 Some have the antennae shorter than the head. 



Otites, has the seta simple, and the lower part of the face is not produced. 



EuUiyccra, Latr., has the seta plumose, and the lower part of the face produced into a truncated muzzle. 

 The others have the antennae as long as, or longer than, the head. 

 Sepedon, Latr., has the antennae evidently longer than the head, and the seta simple. 

 Tetanocera, Dum., has the antennfE as long as the head, and the seta sometimes plumose. 



The sixth division, Leptopodites, is remarkable for the length and slenderness of the feet, the 

 hind ones being at least as long again as the bodj', which is also slender and filiform ; all the tarsi are 

 short. The head is spherical or ellipsoid, and terminated in a point. The antennae are vei7 small. 

 They are found on plants, and many frequent aquatic places. 



Nicropeza, Meig., has the head ellipsoid, terminated in a point, and the seta of the antenna simple. Calobata 

 fili/ormis, Fabr. 



Calobata, Fabr., has the head spheroidal, and the seta often plumose. 



Nerius, Fabr., has the habit of Micropeza, but difters in the antenna; being as long as the head. 



The seventh division, Carpoimyz^, has the wings vibratile, spotted with black or yellow, an appear- 

 ance very like that of the Domestic Flics, but with the eyes apart, and the abdomen with four or five 

 external segments, mostly terminated in the females by a cylindric or conic ovipositor ; the antennae 

 always short, with the seta rarely villose. The larvrs of many species live in fruits or seeds, in the 

 germ of which the parent fly had deposited its eggs. 



Many species approach the preceding subgenera in the narrow and elongated form of the body, and long legs, 

 as well as in the globular or more elongated form of the head. 



Diopsis, Linn., distinct from the very elongated horns into which the sides of the head are produced, and the 

 scutellum with two spines. These singular exotic insects have been monographed by Dalman, [and subsequently 

 by me, in the Transactions of the Limucan Societi/]. 



C'ephalia, Meig., has the palette of the antennae narrow and long, and the palpi spatulate. 



Sepsis, Fall., has the palette much shorter, with a naked seta, and the palpi nearly filiform. [Small, active Flies, 

 with wings spotted with black.] 



The other CarpomyzK have the appearance of Common Flies, with the head short and hemispherical, and the 

 legs of moderate length. 



The three following subgenera have the upper surface of the head almost horizontal, so that the antennae appear 

 inserted on a level with the top. 



Ortalis, Fall., has the abdomen not terminated by an external ovipositor in the females. M. Fallen refers the 

 Musca cerasi, Linn., to this subgenus, the larva of which generally feeds inside the fruit of the cherry, quitting 

 the fruit and entering the earth when ready to undergo its transformations. 



Tctanops, Meig., has an exserted ovipositor in the females, like a tail ; the head, seen from above, appears nearly 

 triangular. 



Tcphrites, Latr. (Trypeta, ivieig.), has the abdomen similarly terminated, but the head is rather transverse than 

 longitudinal, and rounded. Musca Carditi, Linn., the larva of which lives in galls, on the common thistle, on 

 the substance of which it feeds. 



Dacus, Fab., comprises those Tephritcs which have the palette more elongate, including the species which 

 attacks the olive. The inhabitants of the Isle of France are scarcely able to obtain any sound lemons, in conse- 

 quence of the attacks of a species of this genus. 



