156 CATALOGUE OF DIPTERA 



Sciophila pictipennis. Ferruginea : ahdomine postice nigro- 

 fasciato, alls 1iyalmis,fasc'iis, duohiis sinuatis fuscis. 



(Belongs to division B.) Smaller than Leja Winthemi : the 3d and 

 4th segments of the abdomen dusky at the base, the 3th and 6th 

 nearly black: spines of the legs very delicate: 1st band of the 

 v/ings comprehending the areolet, and diffused along the thinner 

 margin, 2d before the apex, scarcely reaching to the margin. 

 Taken in Devonshire. 



Mycetophila lunata, M. 



The larvae gregarious in the growing stems of hollow stalked agarics, 



spin for their transformation a long pouch of white silk with a flat 



circular lid. 



Myc. lunata, F. 



Differs much from the lunata of Meigen : is more like his M. distigma, 



but wants the black bands of the thorax. 



Is not common here. 



Orphnephila devia. 



At all seasons of the year about shaded brooks. A dull 

 timid creature, vei-y unlike the active insects belonging to the 

 section fungicolce. 



Anarete. (e Tipulariis Gallicolis, M. ?) 



Antennae breves, 9-articulatae, articulis 2 baseos majoribus : oculi 

 emarginati : ocelli tres : alas incumbentes nudse : nervus furcatus 

 costse mediae insertus : tibiae ecalcaratae. 



A. candidata. Tipula Pint. De Geer ? 



Glossy black : the wings pure white : legs pale, hind shanks and feet 

 white ; legs of the male much longer : nervures colourless, except 

 the 2 subcostal, which are rosy, in newly disclosed specimens : 

 nearly as large as Lestremia leucophea, from which it differs princi- 

 pally by the antennae : the wings are alike in neuration. 



Catocha. (e Tipulariis Gallicolis, M.J 

 Antennae porrectae, articulis 2 baseos crassioribus, raam 16-articulatae 

 articulis globosis remotis plosis, femince breviores lO-articulatae : 

 ocelli tres : alae incumbentes pilosae : nervus furcatus prope basin, 

 costae insertus. 



C. latipes. 



Glossy black, with dusky yellow legs, and darker tarsi : the fore pair 



