70 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Genus 19. OXYCERA. 



Antennae 8-articulatae ; articuli lus et 2us breves; flagellum 

 fusiforme ; articulus 7us brevis ; 8us longus, stylatus. Scutellum 

 bispinosum. Abdomen rotundatum. 



Musca, p., Linn. ; Scopoli ; Donov. 



Stratiomys, p., Fabr. ; Gmel. ; Panz. ; Fall. 



Oxycera, Meig. Zweijl. iii. ; Macq. ; Curt. ; Zett. ; Stag. ; Loew. 



Mediastinal, subcostal and radial veins ending near together 

 beyond half the length of the wing. First branch of the cubital 

 very short, ending at beyond half the distance between the radial 

 and the tip of the second, which ends at far in front of the tip of 

 the wing. Four secondary, slender, and incomplete externo-medial 

 veins. Subanal united to the anal near the border. Discal veinlets 

 forming two sides of the hexagonal discal areolet. Median veinlet 

 very short, but distinct. Humeral, subcostal, mediastinal, radial, 

 first cubital, second cubital, prsebrachial, pobrachial, anal, axillary, 

 subapical, and discal areolets complete. Four externo-medial areo- 

 lets, axillary lobe, and subaxillary lobe incomplete. Subapical 

 areolet occupying the tip of the wing. 



Europe. 



1. Oxycera Meigenii. 

 Nigro flavoque varia, lunula humerali flava. 



Stratiomys Hypoleon, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 418, 20 ; Ent. Syst. iv. 267, 



20 ; Syst. Antl. 85, 29. Preyssler, Verz. i. 81, 75. Panz. Faun. 



Germ. i. 14. 

 Oxycera Hypoleon, Meig. Zweijl. iii. 124, 1. Macq. Dipt. Nord. 



Stmt. 117, 1; Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 250, 1. Loew, Isis, 1840, 



555, 1. 

 Oxycera Meigenii, Stceg. Ent. Zeit. v. 410, 2. Loew, Dipt. Beitr. 



ii. 1, pi. f. 1, 2. Gimmerth. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1847, 



168, 1. 



France. Germany. Denmark. Russia. 



a. Interlacken, Switzerland. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 





