84 DESCRIPTIONS OF THE BRITISH TEPHRITITES. 



Sp. 2. Acid. ? artemisiae. Pale tawny ; wings limpid, with 

 five or six black spots. (Fig. 32, 33.) 



Musca perelegand Harris, Exp. 74. PI. XXI. 



fig. 5. 

 Musca artemisiae Fair. Ent.Syst.lV.851.162. 



Tephritis artemisiae .... Fabr. Si/st. Antl. 317. 5. 

 Tephrites alternata et interrupta. Fall. Dipt. Suec. Ortal. 5. 



3,4. 

 Trypetae artemisiae, alternata,) Meig. Europ. Zweiflug. Ins. 

 continua,intermissa abrotani .1 V. 312— 314. PI. XL VI IL 



fig. 16, 17. 20, 81, 22. 



Body pale tawny, with a few black bristles above, yellow beneath ; 

 head round, almost white about the eyes and beneath ; peristoma 

 white, nearly round, not longer than broad ; epistoma not pro- 

 minent ; mouth yellow, clothed with white hairs ; palpi not 

 thickened ; antennae yellow ; 3d joint moderately long, nearly 

 cylindric ; thorax above with three slender pale brown stripes, 

 and a small black spot close to the base of each wing ; scutellum 

 convex, moderate, triangular, obtuse at the tip, not hiding the 

 metathorax, which is black and shining ; abdomen long, oval, 

 very slightly arched ; telum very short, passing very little beyond 

 the abdomen ; legs pale tawny, clothed with black hairs ; wings 

 limpid, slightly yellow at the base, having four spots and the tip 

 black ; 1st spot large, irregular, nearly square, joining the middle 

 of the costa ; 2d small, surrounding the lower cross nervure ; 3d 

 still smaller, round, below the fifth nervure ; 4th hardly seen, 

 near the base of the wing ; nervures brown, yellow towards the 

 base ; poisers yellow ; a variety has a 5th spot below the costa, 

 between the 1 st spot and the tip of the wing ; it sometimes joins 

 the 2d, and thus forms a band across. (Length of body 2 lines ; 

 of wings 4| lines.) 



May to July ,• on grass in damp meadows ; near London. 



Sp. 3. Acid. ? Zoe. Bright yellow ; wings limpid, with two 

 or three black spots. (Fig. 34.) 



Trypeta Zoe. Wied. Meig. Europ. Zweiflug. Ins.V. 315. 

 PI. XLVIII. fig. 14, 15. 



Last comes the beautiful little Zoe, with its bright yellow 

 body and black and white wings. 



