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triangular, rounded at the tip, scarcely hiding the metathorax, 

 which is black and slightly shining above ; abdomen clothed with 

 black hairs ; telum rust colour, of female wedge-shaped ; legs 

 clothed with black hairs; 1st band of wing scarcely seen ■, costa 

 and nervures brown, yellow toward the base of the wing ; shorter 

 cross nervure straight and upright ; longer one slightly bent, its 

 upper end nearer the tip of the wing ; poisers pale yellow. 



Sp. 1. Teph. cornuta. Sea-green, antennce of male with a 



long appendage above. (Fig. 8.) 

 Musca cornuta . . Fabr. Ent. Syst. IV. 357. 186. 

 Scatophaga cornuta Fabr. Syst. Antl. 209. 28. 

 Tephritis cornuta . Fallen, Dipt. Suec. Ortal. 4. 1 ; Curtis 



Brit. Ent. V. 241. 

 Trypeta cornuta . Meig. Enrop. Zweiflug. Ins.V. 318. 

 12. PI. XLVIII. fig. 2. 



Body sea-green : peristoma broader in front ; lip yellow ; antennae 

 yellow, those of the male with the 2d joint emitting a long pale 

 yellow almost cylindric lobe armed with stout black bristles, 2d 

 joint of the female brown above, 3d joint bright yellow, paler at 

 the base ; thorax with a few black bristles above, yellow on each 

 side and beneath, with a large grey spot on each side between the 

 fore and middle legs ; abdomen with four black spots at the base 

 of each segment from the 2d to the 5th ; the spots arc often hidden 

 by the border of the preceding segment ; legs yellow ; wings 

 limpid, 2d and 3d bands shortened; 4th reaching the lower 

 border, 5th at the tip of the wing darker. (Length of body 

 2 — 3 lines ; of wings 4 — b\ lines.) 

 June and September ; Isle of Wight. 



Sp. 2. Teph. lappae. Tawny, antennce of both sexes simple. 

 (Fig. 9.) 



Musca arctii . . Panz. Faun. Germ. XXII. 23. 

 Trypeta lappae . Meig.Europ. Zweiflug. Ins. V. 318. 11. 

 Tephrytis arctii ? Desvoidy ,Essai sur les Myodaires, 767. 6. 



Tawny, clothed with white hairs and black bristles ; antennas pale 

 red, 3d joint clothed with white down ; thorax with a grey spot 

 on each side beneath the fore and middle legs ; mesothorax varied 

 with grey above ; scutellum almost yellow ; abdomen greyish 

 brown, covered with a thick down, and having four black spots at 

 the base of each segment ; legs pale tawny ; wings with the 2d 



