102 NORTH AMERICAN DIPTERA. 



the fourth segment as long as the second and third together, the yel- 

 low of its posterior margin extending in form of a median wedge 

 nearly to its base, the genitalia yellow ; legs pale yellow ; wings 

 typical, but the spots smaller, and more numerous in the first poste- 

 rior cell, one being at its extreme apex. 



TephritJK muriiia Doan. 



Numerous specimens of both sexes, Cloudcroft, Beulah, and Las 

 Vegas, New Mexico. 



As Mr. Doan remarks, this species resembles T. albiceps Lw. in 

 the wing design, but the latter is readily distinguished by the forma- 

 tion of the marginal drops at the apex of the wing, and the next 

 inner row, which are concentric with them ; also the interspersing of 

 minute drops among the larger discal ones. The wing also is nar- 

 rower in proportion than in albiceps. 



I have before me a few specimens of murina showing a tendency 

 of the apical drops to arrange themselves concentrically as those of 

 albiceps. The absence of the black abdominal markings, except 

 with the females is not constant, but where present are rather faint. 



Dr. Coquillett has kindly confirmed the determination of my 

 specimens. 



Tephrit.i»<t dupla sp. nov., PI. I, fig. 2. 



Male. — Front rufous, darker along the orbits and at vertex ; narrow anteriorly, 

 nearly one-half as wide as at the vertex; bristles black. Face yellow, whitish 

 along the orbits. Palpi and proboscis yellow; labella genticulate. Antennae 

 rufous, three-quarters the length of face, stout; third joint rounded at apex, 

 cylindrical. Occiput, except the posterior orbits and behind the cheeks, black. 



Thorax and scutelluni black, with the usual bristles and whitish hairs, gray ish- 

 pollinose ; the former with three dorsal and two lateral brownish lines ; the latter 

 brownish at apex, with four bristles. 



The abdomen more shining, black. All femora black ; fore and middle tibise, 

 extremities of hind tibiae, and all tarsi rufous. The stigma of wing and the adja- 

 cent part of marginal cell infuscate; no spot in stigma; small cross-vein infus- 

 cate ; only two spots in the marginal cell ; third vein bare. Length 2.5 mm. 



Two males, Beulah, N. Mex. Cotype in Acad. Nat. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., and Univ. Kans. collection. 



The two large spots in the marginal cell, with the uniform reticu- 

 lation of remainder of the wing is very characteristic. 



Tephritis uinbrata sp. nov., Plate I. fig. 3. 



Male. — Fvowt yellow, orbits narrowly white ; bristles blac^k. Face and cheeks 

 whitish, cheeks with a long bristle opposite the lower angle of eyes. Oral mar- 



