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AGROMYZIDAE. 



Traginops pilicornis n. sp. (Plate XIX, Figures 3-4). 



Opake, yellow and brown pruinose. Front black above, rufous to- 

 wards antennae, with broad orbits and a pair of elongate spots caudo- 

 laterad posterior ocelli, yellow pruinose; occiput yellow pruinose be- 

 coming cinereous below ; lunule cinereous with an isolated, velvety 

 black spot. Middle portion of face cinereous; orbits faintly whitish; 

 vibrissal angle dark; oral margin cinereous. Cheeks yellow pruinose 

 with the flat triangular area below orbits brown. Gypeus brownish; 

 palpi and antennae yellow. Mesonotum yellow pruinose with a com- 

 plete broad median stripe, a narrow intermediate interrupted stripe, 

 and interrupted lateral margins dark brown. Scutellum concolorous, 

 with two longitudinal brown stripes, apex with a point of light 

 yellow. Pleura yellow pruinose, irregularly marked with brown; 

 metanotum cinereous. Halteres yellow. Abdomen subopake, black; 

 apical margins of segments 2-4 narrowly white, becoming broader 

 and cinereous laterally. Coxae and femora black; apices of latter 

 yellow ; tibiae and tarsi yellow ; former with subapical and subbasal 

 rings, and latter with apical joints, brown. Wings (fig. 4) infus- 

 cated, darker towards costa; with whitish, hyaline spots on disk as fig- 

 ured; veins black except at base, first at jointing with costa, and second 

 and third where crossing white spots of disk, hyaline. 



Compact, robust species, head closely applied to thorax. Eyes bare, 

 large. Ocellar plate situated far forwards but little produced con- 

 ically as with the other species (fig. 3). Three frontals, inner and 

 outer verticals, a post-ocellar pair and an anterior ocellar pair, 

 bristles, well developed, (the latter are broken off in type) ; frontal 

 orbits slightly converging below. Face short concaved ; foveae shal- 

 low ; vibrissal angles and peristomalia prominent, strongly differ- 

 entiated from the middle portion of face and area bordering the 

 oral margin, peristomalia bearing a few short hairs and three to four 

 moderately long bristles. Cheeks nearly quarter the height of eye, 

 with a bare triangularly shaped depressed area above peristomalia; a 

 series of about three bristles on anterior edge of lower occipital 

 area which otherwise is thickly hairy. Clypcus distinct but retracted; 

 palpi clavate. Antennae short, situated far below middle of eye 

 level; second joint short with an apical bristle-like hair above; third 

 joint rounded; arista long, doubly plumose, having the two usual 

 series of long hairs and two other series of shorter hairs situated at 

 90 degrees with the longer series. Mesonotum bare, but with a post 

 dorso-central bristle and an intra-alar, close to margin; 2 post-alars ; 



2 supra-alars ; i presutural ; I humeral. Pleura with 2 notopleural and 



3 sternopleural bristles. Scutellum triangular, convex, sharply pointed 

 or semi tuberculate apically; with 4 bristles. Abdomen short, (ap- 



