Insecta Britanica - Diptera - by Francis Walker (1855) (14784338833)

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Title: Insecta Britanica : Diptera / by Francis Walker

Year: 1855 (1850s)

Authors: Walker, Francis, 1809-1874

Subjects: Diptera -- Great Britain

Publisher: London : Reeve and Benham

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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fect insect and details of B. ammlata, Meig.; Stseg.; Zett.;Wiun.=:Z>./«v«y/we«, Wlk., ante, p. 64, ixnd^^MycetopJilla zo7iata,Steph. loc. cit.) Genus 21. Platyura (p. 64). Fig. 5. Platyura .laticornis, Meig. i.238, 13. 5 a, front of head of ditto; 5 b, antenna of ditto; .5 c,labium and palpi of P. marginata seen sideways; So, wing of P.marginata. Genus 22. Macrocera (p. 68). Fig. 6 «, wing oi Macrocera ItUea,male; 6 b, head and antenna of ditto, seen sideways. Genus 23. Bolitophila (p. 71). Fig. 7. BolitopJiila fusca,\ fern.7 a, antenna of ditto ; 7 b, head of B. cinerea.—See also Stephens,Illustr. Br. Ent. pi. 44, fig. 1, for figure and further details of ^.cinerea. J. O. W. t la the female lieie figured, tlie oblique veinlet near the tip of the wing reachesthe costa beyoud the extremity of the subcostal vein. In the male (Messala Smm-dersii. Curt.), it is represented as more transverse, and united to tlie subcostal beforeit reaches the costa.—J. 0. IF. rJlPTERA,P1.7Jr(Il

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Hatmt =r«K Iran PLATE XXIV Family III. CEClDOMYZIDiE. Genus 1. Cecidomyia (p. 73). Fig. 1. Cecidomi/ia (Epkhsin)loncjipes, male, Loevv ; Winnertz; Linn. Ent. viii. 314 (TullmnorePark, Ireland, A. H. H.). 1 a, antenna of C. (D/plosis) Piid(Winnertz); lb, wing of C. (Jsynapta) pedoralis (Winnertz) ; 1 c, wing of C. romria (Winnertz); 1 d, antenna of C. (Aspliou-iJylia) Sarothamni (Winnertz). (And see Plate XXIX. Pig. 8, and details.) Genus 2. Lasioptera (p. 133). Pig. 2. Lasioptera sti/gia (fromspecimen communicated by Mr. Walker,) with the basal joint ofall the tarsi very minute. (Query, a species of Cecidomyia ?) 2 «, antenna of ditto; 2 b, antenna of L. pulchra, Meig. 7. 267;(Bioriii/za pnlcJira, Stephens, Illustr. Br. Ent. pi. 42. tig. 4); 2 c,wing of L. Rubi (Winnertz). (And see Plate XXX. Pig. 2.) Family IV. BIBIONID^. Genus 1. Bibio (p. 134). Pig. 3^, head of Blbio Marci, female; 3 b, antenna of ditto; 3 c, wing of ditto; 3 d, fore leg of ditto. (And see PJate XXIX. Pig. 5.) Ge

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