iv, 5 Bezzi: Fruit Flies from the Philippines 439 



21. Mellesis pedunculata Bezzi. Plate II, fig. 5. 



Mellesis pedunculata Bezzi, Bull. Ent. Research 7 (1916) 115. 



A small species with a well-stalked abdomen, very distinct 

 on account of its banded face and its simple wing pattern. 



Luzon, Laguna Province, Mount Maquiling (Baker) . Minda- 

 nao, Davao (Baker). Type in Professor Baker's collection. 



Male. — Length of body, 7.5 millimeters; of wing, 6; of the 

 whole antenna, about 2. Occiput black in the middle, with a 

 reddish spot above from neck to vertex, and with a yellow 

 border, the latter a little broadened below. Frons proportion- 

 ately narrow, less than twice as long as broad; reddish at 

 base with yellow vertical plates, with yellow borders, and more- 

 over rather yellowish in front; at vertex a black crossband 

 including the black ocellar dot; a dark spot toward the middle 

 shaped as a broad transverse band. Lunula broad, shining 

 brownish. Face very short in the middle, with less prominent 

 mouth border; shining yellowish, with a shining black trans- 

 verse band just above mouth border, rather dilated toward 

 middle of antennal grooves; a small black spot just below root 

 of antennae. Cheeks not properly linear; jowls broader than 

 third antennal joint, with a brown subocular spot. Antenna? 

 very long, much longer than face; first joint very elongate, 

 entirely reddish, nearly bare; second joint a little shorter than 

 first, blackish at base, reddish at end, with dark hairs; third 

 joint narrow and elongate, quite blackish; arista yellowish, 

 about as long as the whole antenna. Palpi and proboscis dirty 

 yellowish. Cephalic bristles black; two pairs of well-developed 

 lower orbitals; genal bristle well developed; postverticals not 

 distinct or hairlike. 



Mesonotum broad and less convex, with interrupted suture; 

 punctate, opaque, clothed with a short yellowish pubescence; 

 back reddish, with two black, longitudinal, middle stripes, pro- 

 longed beyond suture but not reaching scutellum, and with two 

 broad black patches, one on each side, including the interrupted, 

 yellow, transverse sutural stripe ; humeral callosities entirely yel- 

 low. Pleura black in the middle, reddish on sides and below, 

 punctate like the back but a little more shining; yellow meso- 

 pleural stripe moderately broad, continued below with a yellow 

 spot on upper border of sternopleuron ; hypopleural spot double. 

 Mesophragma black, with a reddish vertical stripe along the 

 middle. Scutellum twice as broad as long, yellow, with a nar- 



