BRITISH TEPHRITITES. 61 



Oxyphora. — Desvoidy. 



Has the mouth like Ensina, but is much larger, the colour is tawny, 

 the head is not narrowed nor lengthened in front, the wings are 

 rust colour, varied with a few little limpid spots. 



Body downy ; peristoma nearly round, scarcely longer than broad ; 

 epistoma slightly prominent ; feelers long and rather broad ; 

 3d joint of antennae short, oval, compressed, flat above, convex 

 beneath; scutellum rather prominent; abdomen slightly arched ; 

 telum very short; wings long ; 5th long nervure not reaching the 

 border of the wing ; short cross nervure straight, upright ; the 

 other one slightly bent, nearer above to the tip of the wing. 



Sp. 1. Oxy. Westermanni. Fem. Rust colour; wings 

 brown, varied with numerous yellow, and a few white spots. 



(Fig. 2.) 



Musca vinulus? . . . Harris, Exp. 117, PI. XXXIV. fig. 

 21. 



Tephritis Westermanni . Meia. Europ. Zweijlug. Ins. V. 333. 

 32. PI. L. fig. 6. 



Oxyphora Cardui . . . Desvoidy, Essai sur les Myodaires, 

 757. 2. 



Rust colour, clothed with yellow hairs and black bristles : head pale, 

 yellow beneath and round the eyes, with a few white bristles 

 above ; mouth and feelers tawny, clothed with white hairs ; 

 antennae tawny, 6th joint with a very short down ; scutellum 

 tawny ; metathorax pale yellow, silky ; abdomen not bristly ; 

 telum wedge-shaped, not longer than one fifth of the abdomen 

 black at the tip ; legs clothed with short yellow hairs ; wings 

 rich brown, varied with small yellow and white spots ; the former 

 are very numerous, and often joined together in the disk of the 

 wing, they are fewer towards the border, and cease altogether at 

 the tip and along the lower part of the wing ; the latter are few, 

 various in size and shape, most of them along the lower border, 

 largest one long and narrow in the disk of the wing between the 

 4th and 5th long nervures ; nervures brown, paler towards the 

 base ; poisers tawny. (Length of body 3| lines ; of wings 6j 

 lines.) 

 Very rare in England. 



Terellia. — Desvoidy. 



Sides of the body nearly parallel, shoulders square. 



Body slightly angular ; feelers long, broader towards their tips ; 

 thorax nearly linear, with three white stripes on each side 



