A small fly of the genus Oscinis, destructive to wheat.
1881. Miss E. A. Ormerod, Injur. Insects (1890), 92. The Frit Fly is a small, black, shining, two-winged fly.
1893. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., Dec., 827. Some other pests … are wire-worms, crane-fly, frit-fly … and winter-moth.
