Family ol
the
flUSCID/G.
29.
wliole ortlei.
It
KEY Si'B-Family
—
II
Upper
I.
so.
une side bare, the other cumb-like
-
-
-
-
-
.
Muscidir
.
feathery at foot, bare at point feather-like to the
body
Famiia'
Upper
II. .
cell
Here belong many
seam
and
seam across
the breast-part Antkoinxia
.
c
.4;//-^(?;/n'/«. -
.^^eparnle "^
I
and
i.
Vein A close
I,
-
-
-
-
-
1.1
c j. j ctepedon,
c> 'r-r. . J rvfcia, J etaiiocera, r, r> i Dryomyza, Pyrgota, andi/oy;Ortaiis. .<
.-_.
...---_---.-.
but separating
to
^
!icatoj'/i<ii;a, iycioiiiysti, -
-
ne.'^.r
the front edge
-
-
P^^ila, I^oxoccra, Citlobata
..
and Mioopeza.
/fclomvza and Sepsis.
cells large
cells small
I.oiic/urn
and Saproinyza.
complete than Aiitkomyia.
Vein A close to only one cell Vein A and grown together 1
,
i
Vein A entirely w anting
Sflne>oceph(da.
Pioph'da and Agroinvza.
separate near shoulder
Vein A only a stump
Wing
ami Hylrmia
flies. The veinings of their wings lie between Ant/iomyia 3.u Plwra. The small characters, and are often very difficult to recognize in such delicate objects. the first length-vein from which the forked second length-vein branches. i is called
J=v
less
a
across breast-part incomplete or wanting.
made on
Vein A and
Wing
Dexia. Miiscn.
families of small
similar to
Vein
Saciophaga.
bristly
Hide open.
called the aiiiliary vein
Wing "
TachiuidiP.
(Slomoxys.)
bristiv cmlv at last rings
scale very small or entirely wanting: the
scientific divisions are is
end body
scale covering the balancers in place of hind-wing
The
<
-.-_-_.-_. -..--._-.-...._.
—
^-^^^^_^^|^^^
A
very numeious, and embraces about Iwo-tliinls
of wing ending near point, closed or nearly end of feeler, smooth and bare
^^^^^^^~~FP^
A
is
THE IMUSCID.E.
'J"0
cell
IJristle at
^^
This family
Tl/plcal Flies.
needs, therefore, a separate kev.
Rphvdyiiiidir.
Drosophila.
Oscinis and Chloi ops.
with a few stout veins near front-edge, and a few weak, unconnected ones in hind-edge
(50)
-
-
Plioui.
(50)