BRITISH TEPHRITITES. 69 



Tephrytes jaceae, dorsalis, pusilla et abdominalis . Desvoidy, 

 Essai sur les Myodaires, 766. 768. 1, 2, 3. 7. 



Light brown, beneath paler, almost tawny ; antennae pale red, 

 3d joint clothed with white down ; thorax grey above, the sides 

 yellow, a black spot on each side between the fore and middle 

 legs ; scutellum almost yellow, with three black punctures ; spots 

 of the abdomen largest on the 3d segment ; legs pale tawny ; wings 

 with the 2d band joined to the third, (the latter nearly reaching 

 the lower border), and the 4th to the 5th at the upper border. 

 Length of body If — 1\ lines; of wings 2| — ?>\ lines.) 



Common near London, in the autumn. 



UROPHORA b . — Desvoidy. 



Like Tephritis, but colour black, scutellum bright yellow, telum of 

 female very long, compressed, almost cylindric, wings white, with 

 black bands. 



Body clothed with grey down and black hairs ; head yellow or 

 tawny, with a few black bristles, slightly narrowed in front, black 

 behind ; peristoma angular, white, bordered with saffron, hardly 

 longer than broad ; epistoma not prominent, slightly notched in 

 front ; mouth saffron, yellow towards the base ; antennae short, 

 tawny ; 3d joint red, almost cylindric, slightly concave above, 

 convex beneath ; throat yellow ; thorax beneath and metathorax 

 above shining, the former with a bright yellow line on each side, 

 and a cross band of the same colour at the base of the fore legs ; 

 abdomen nearly linear ; telum of the female narrowing to the tip ; 

 legs clothed with black hairs ; wings yellow at the base ; costa 

 and nervures yellow, brown towards the tip of the wing ; cross 

 nervures nearly upright, longer one slightly bent ; poisers bright 

 yellow. 



Sp. 1. Uro. cardui. Telum of female as long as half the 



abdomen, wings with four broad bands forming a waved 



line. (Fig. 12.) 



Musca cardui . Linn. Syst. Nat. II. 998. 126; Faun Suec. 



1876. 1063; Degeer, Ins. VI. 49. 18; 



Gmel. Syst. Nat. V. 2858. 126; Fabr. 



Mant. ins. II. 353. 120; Spec. Ins. II. 



454. 100; Ent. Syst. IV. 359. 191 ; Stew. 



11.263; Turt. III. 621. 



b This name has been applied to a genus of Hemiplera. 



