104 NORTH AMERICAN DIPTERA. 



discal cell opposite the posterior cross vein much smaller ; oue less 

 spot in the second basal cell. The abdomen is noticeably rounded, 

 not pointed at apex. 



Tephritis fibiilata v. d. W. 



One female, Las Vegas, N. Mex. 



Tliis species is figured in the Biologia, Diptera, Vol. II, and th« 

 specimen before me agrees well with it, but the small cross- vein is 

 clouded; the extreme apical spot of the submarginal cell wanting; 

 two small spots in the stigmatic cloud of the submarginal cell ; the 

 two small spots in the discal cell near the posterior cross-veins want- 

 ing, but the large spot before them is nearly divided into two. The 

 ovipositor is nearly as long as the abdomen. The markings of the 

 thorax and abdomen distinct. 



Tephritis inornata Coq., PI. I, fig. 5. 



One male, Beulah, N. Mex. 



The yellow legs. The triangular group of three spots in the apical 

 portion of the submarginal cell, though they sometimes coalesce into 

 one ; the quadriangular group of four spots in the basal portion of 

 the first posterior cell, though they also sometimes coalesce into one 

 large spot or two elongated spots ; and the five or six smaller spots 

 in the apical portion of the first posterior cell are characteristic of 

 this species, in addition to the typical description. 



Tephritis palli<lipeuni$« sp. nov., PI. I, fig. 6. 



Male.— Head yellow, but the ocellar tubercle and upper part of tbe occiput 

 black. Front about oue-third the width of head ; orbits nearly parallel, narrowly 

 silvery. Face whitish. Palpi and proboscis whitish. Hairs of occiput and 

 cheeks white. Antennte four-fifths as long as the face, whitish ; second joint 

 more yellow ; arista brown, yellow at base. 



Thorax black, golden pollinose towards the posterior dorsal margin, covered 

 with short white hairs ; humeri and at base of wing yellowish ; pleura and meta- 

 notum whitish-pollinose; two posterior dorso-central bristles. Scutellum black, 

 with four marginal bristles, the two apical one-half as long as the lateral ones. 

 Halteres yellowish. 



Abdomen short, broad, grayish-black ; a faint brown stripe each side of a me- 

 dian gray line; the white hairs longer than those of the thorax. 



Legs yellow; fore femora more or less faintly infuscated. Wings nearly hya- 

 line; first vein bristly; third vein bare, faintly spotted along the costa and in 

 cells behind the fourth vein ; the darkest portion is along the costa in form of 

 triangular spots; the submarginal cell cleary hyaline, except at the apex; the 

 first posterior cell very faintly spotted along the fourth vein. Length 2.5 mm. 



