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Genus TURRIGER Kertesz 



I have some doubts as to the distinctness of this genus from 

 Cestrotus Loew. In his recent paper on the genera of Sapromyzidae 

 Doctor Hendel distinguishes them on the character of the frons. I 

 do not concede that the mere lie of the orbital stripes constitutes a 

 valid generic character, there being a great diversity in species 

 of the same genus, the range extending from their being exactly 

 parallel to the eyes, to pronouncedly convergent anteriorly. The 

 presence of the ocelli on the frontal prominence or behind it might 

 have some value, but the degree of elevation of the frons in different 

 individuals of the same species may influence this character. How- 

 ever, it appears to me that there is reason to consider the definition 

 given by Doctor Hendel as subject to emendation as the species 

 before me has the orbital stripes parallel with the eyes, the orbital 

 bristles in longitudinal line, and the ocelli well behind the apex 

 of the frontal prominence. This last character would prevent the 

 location of the species in Turnger^ but I place it here rather than in 

 Cestrotus^ the genotype of the latter being African. The Oriental 

 species have the costa as in Sayroniyza. 



TURRIGER FLAVOSCUTELLATUS (de Meijere) 

 CestrotU'S flavoscutellatus de Meijeke, Tijdschr. v. Ent., vol. 53, p. 142, 1910. 



Originally described in Cestrotits. 



I have seen Formosan and Javanese specimens of this species, but 

 none from the Philippines. 



The Formosan form with dark femora has been named nigrifemo- 

 ratus by Hendel. 



TURRIGER FLAVIPES Frcy 



Turrigcr fiavipes Fbet, Acta Soc. pro Fauma et Flora Fennica, vol. 56, No. 8, 

 p. 8, 1927. 



This species was described from a single example from Leyte, 

 Philippine Islands. It is distinguished from the preceding species 

 by the differently colored legs, the tibiae and tarsi being entirely 

 yellow, with at most a dark annulus at base of each hind tibia, instead 

 of a dark annulus at base and apex of each pair of tibiae. 



Frey suggests the possibility of its being merely a variety of 

 apicalis Hendel. I have not seen the species. 



Genus ICHTHYOMYIA de Meijere 



This genus is readily distinguished from any other in the family 

 by the shape of the head. (Fig. 30.) The ocellar bristles are mi- 

 nute and widely divergent, the postverticals are long, both pairs of 

 orbitals are strong, and backwardly directed, the arista is short 

 haired, and the mouth opening occupies less than half the extreme 



