70 DESCRIPTIONS OF THE 



Musca cardui . Gad. Ins. I. 50; List. Gced. 313. 102. PI. 

 CXXIX.; Blank. Ins. 189. PI. XVI. fig. 

 T.; Reaum. Ins. III. 457. PL XLV. fig. 

 12—16; Leeuwetth. 58, fig. 10. 

 Musca alis linea undulata, &c. Geoff. Ins. II. 496. 8. 

 Trupanea cardui, Schrank, Fauna Boica, III. 2514. 

 Tephritis cardui. Fabr. Syst. Antl. 321. 21; Latr. Gen. 

 Crust. IV. 355; Regne Anim.V. 534; 

 Lam. Anim. sans Vertebres, III. 364. 2. 

 Trypeta cardui . Meig. Europ. Zweiflug. Ins. V. 326. 23. 

 PI. XLIX. fig. 9. 



Urophorse Reaumurii, liturata, Sonchi, centaureae et Dejeanii. 

 Desvoidy, Essai stir les Myodaires, 770 — 772. 4 — 8. 



Head bright yellow, paler beneath ; telum of female as long as half 

 the abdomen ; legs tawny ; cox as brown ; thighs black, tawny at 

 either end ; wings with tbe 1st band joined to the 2d, and the 3d 

 to the fourth above, 2d and 3d joined together below. Length of 

 body 1\ — 2| lines ; of wings 3* — 4| lines.) 



Inhabits thistles in the south of England during the summer 

 and autumn. 



Sp. 2. Uro. pugionata. Telum of the female as long as the 

 abdomen, wings with four separate rather broad bands. 

 (Fig. 13.) 



Trypeta pugionata Meig. Eur op. Zweiflug. Ins. 



V. 330. 28. PI. XLIX. 

 fig. 11. 



Urophorae solstitialis etfemoralis . Desvoidy , Essai sur les Myo- 

 daires, 769, 770. 2, 3. 



Head tawny above, paler beneath ; legs tawny ; coxa) yellow 

 beneath ; thighs black, tawny at either end ; wings with the 1 st 

 band shortened, 2d sometimes divided, 3d and 4th sometimes 

 joined together above. (Length of body 1± — 2i lines ; of wings 

 3— 3£ lines.) 



Common in the south of England during the summer and 

 autumn. 



