OF FULGORA CANDELARIA. 57 



therefore, cautiously avoided all severity in my reply. I will 

 beg to propose, as an amendment, " That this discussion be 

 resumed this day six months." 



{The remainder of the Discussion in our next). 



Art. V. — Descriptions of the British Tephritites. By 

 Francis Walker. 



The lively and rich colours of these insects, their emerald 

 eyes glowing with the hues of the rainbow, and their wings 

 fancifully adorned with bands, stars, and circles, have been much 

 admired by Entomologists : their habits, while grubs, are also 

 very interesting ; most of them inhabit galls on various plants 

 of the syngenesious kind, for piercing which, the female fly has a 

 broad horny telum, a character peculiar to the order. The perfect 

 insects walk and fly slowly, and generally repose on flowers. 

 Desvoidy observes that they are to the other Muscina as the 

 Curculionites are to the Coleoptera, or the Tenthredinites to 

 the Hymenoptera. a They are allied to the Sapromyzites and 

 to the Phytomyzites ; the narrow peristoma (or cavity of the 

 mouth) and the habits of the grubs, distinguish them from the 

 former, the antennae and the nervures of the wings from 

 the latter, and the telum (or tip of the abdomen) from both. 



The body is moderate as to size, generally downy, and 

 thinly clothed with hairs and bristles, rarely smooth and 

 shining. The head is transverse, as broad as the thorax, 

 rounded, sometimes narrowed and lengthened in front; the 

 eyes are rather small, brilliant green, varied with splendid 

 colours during life, dull green, or dull red after death ; the 



a Essai sur les Myodaires, a work that has been little noticed in this country. 

 He has much improved their systematic arrangement ; his investigations on their 

 structure and economy are extensive and laborious; and, moreover, he has 

 given to them some hundred new generic names, that have great euphony and 

 simplicity, very unlike those 



"Heaps of huge words uphoorded hideously, 

 With horrid sound, though having little sense," 



now so prevalent in Entomology. 



His chief faults are the utter disregard with which he treats the works of 

 Meigen, Fallen, and Wiedemann, and his fondness forgiving specific names to 

 mere varieties. 



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