1899] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 129 



A NEW C055ID FROM TEXAS. 



BY HARRISON G- DYAR. 



liHjiii-oiiioriihd arbeloides,u. sp., with the structure of 7. basalts, 

 but vein Icof fore wings absent except at its tip beyond the point 

 at which it joins vein 1, thus approaching- i n structure the Indian 

 genus Arbela. The species resembles Arbela nais Druce most 

 nearly of the Mexican species. 



Male. Light brown, mottled with darker, purplish brown. 

 Fore wings heavily strigose-mottled in a series of spots between 

 the veins, most heavily along the internal margin, in a broad sub- 

 marginal area and at end of cell; disc-ally the spottiugs are more 

 sparsely placed and terminally they are smaller, though equally 

 numerous. Hind wings paler, faintly mottled all over; a large, 

 dark, discal spot ; inner area towards base without spottings. Head 

 and thorax in front dark brown; abdomen about the color of fore 

 wings. Expanse 27 mm. 



One male, Brownsville. Texas; C. H. T. Townsend, llth June, 

 1895; No. 606. U S. Nat. Museum, type No. 4249. 



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A NEW TRYFETID FROM HAWAII. 



BY D. W. COQUILLETT. 



Dacus cuctirbitce, u. sp. Head light yellow, the occiput, except 

 the sides and upper margin, reddish yellow, an ocellar black dot, 

 front marked with a brown spot in front of its center and with three 

 pairs of orbital brown dots, a black spot on each side of the face 

 near the middle and a brown spot on the middle of each cheek; 

 antenna;, palpi and proboscis yellow, the latter mottled with 

 brown. Thorax reddish yellow, the burner!, a median vitta on the 

 posterior half of the mesouotum, another on each side above the in- 

 sertion of the wings, uniting with an irregular band which extends 

 upon the pleura to the upper part of the sternopleura, also a large 

 spot on each side of the metanotum, encroaching upon the hypop- 

 leura, light yellow ; scutellum, except itsextreme base, light yellow, 

 bearing two bristles. Abdomen light yellow on first two segments, 

 reddish yellow on the others, the extreme base, a fascia at the bases 

 of the second and third segments, usually a lateral spot on the 

 fourth and fifth, also a dorsal vitta on the last three segments, 

 blackish or brownish; first segment of the ovipositor of the female 

 slightly longer than the fifth segment of the abdomen. Wings 

 hyaline, the apex of the subcostal cell from a short distance in front 

 of the apex of the auxiliary vein, the marginal and submaroinal 

 cells the median third of the first basal cell and a large spot in up- 

 per outer corner of tli3 first posterior cell, brown ; anal cell brown, 

 this color encroaching on the third posterior cell and bordering the 



