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ders of the cross nervures brown ; nervures yellow, brown at the 

 tip or the wing ; poisers yellow. (Length of body 2 lines ; of 

 wings 3 1 lines.) 

 Very rare in England. 



Sp. 4. Acin. heraclei. Dark tawny, wings limpid with two 

 spreading black bands. (Fig. 23.) 



Musca heraclei . . Linn. Syst. Nat. II. 998; Faun. Suec. 



1877 ; Gmel. Sys. Nat. V. 2858. 125 ; 



Fabr. Ent. S?jst. IV. 354. 172. 

 Tephritis heraclei . Fabr. Syst. Ant. 277. 21. 

 Trypeta heraclei . Meig. Europ. Zweiflug. Ins. V. 338. 39. 

 Acinia plantaris . . Desvoidy, Essai sur les Myodaires, 



778. 6. 



Dark tawny, paler beneath ; head tawny above, yellow and clothed 

 with black and white hairs beneath ; mouth and antennae tawny ; 

 telum rust-colour, of the female black at the tip ; legs reddish 

 yellow, clothed with black and white hairs ; wings limpid, slightly 

 yellow at the base, with two spreading black bands, one through 

 the middle of the wing, and inclining towards the tip below, the 

 other near the tip, much broader; nervures yellow, their tips 

 brown; poisers bright yellow. (Length of body 2 — 2\ lines, of 

 wings 3f — 4 lines.) 



South of England, during the autumn. 



Sp. 5. Acin. leontodontis. Brown, wings white, with two 

 broad black branching bands. (Fig. 24.) 



Musca leontodontis . . Degeer, Ins. VI. 46. 17. PI. II. 



fig. 15—18. 

 Musca stellata . . . . Sulzer, Ins. 216. PI. XXVIII. fig. 



12. c ; Fnesly Schweiz. Ins. 



1 125 ; Panz.Faun. Germ. XX. 23. 

 Musca parietina . . . Fabr. Mant. Ins. II. 351. 96; Sp. 



Ins. II. 450.79; Ent. Syst. IV. 



350. 154. 

 Musca scabiosae . . . Fabr. Ent. Syst. IV. 361. 200. 

 Dacus scabiosae . . . Fabr. Syst. Anil. 278. 26. 

 Trupanea leontodontis . Schrank, Fauna Boica, III. 2519. 

 Tephritis parietina . . Fabr. Syst. Antl. 319. 13. 

 Tephritis leontodontis . Fallen, Dipt. Suec. Ortal. 9. 13. 



