ART. 6 NOTES ON" ORIENTAL SAPROMYZID FLIES — MALLOCH / 



KEY TO THE SPECIES 



] . Metallic dark blue species, with decided violet tinge, legs black, bases of 

 tarsi yellow; scutellum with a shallow furrow on each side at base in 

 addition to the one along marginal rim, the surface elsewhere smooth; 



posterior notopleural bristle present sumatrensis van der Wulp. 



Testaceous yellow species, the legs concolorous, scutellum with an almost 

 imperceptible bluish tinge, without furrow at base except the marginal one, 

 its surface irregularly rugose, or coarsely wrinkled; posterior notopleural 

 bristle absent testaceiis, new species. 



PARACELYPHUS SUMATRENSIS van der Wulp 



Paracelyphus sumatrensis van der Wulp, Compt. rend. Soc. Ent. Belg., 

 p. 297, 1884. 



Thi^ species must be very similar to hyacinthus Bigot, differing 

 mainly in the color of the antennae, which are entirely black as 

 against the yellow color of those of hyacinthus, though the third 

 segment in the latter is brownish or fuscous. 



Length, 6 mm. 



Locality, Wai Lima, Sumatra, 1921 (Karny and Siebers). 



PARACELYPHUS TESTACEUS, new specieg 



This species is about the same size and build as the preceding 

 one, but i^ readily distinguished by the general testaceous color, 

 even the antennae and legs being pale. While the pale metatarsi of 

 sumatrensis are distinctly thickened they are not at all thickened in 

 testaceus. Other characters as in the key. 



Length, 6 mm, width 4 mm. 



Type, Mount Maquiling, Luzon (C. F. Baker) ; paratypes, one, 

 Manila, (G. Compere); four, Tangcolan, Bukidnon; two, Butuan, 

 Mindanao ; one Mount Banahao ; one, Davao, Mindanao ; one, Samar 

 Island; all in the Philippines (C. F. Baker). 



Type.— C^i. No. 41087, U.S.N.M. 



The first mentioned paratype has a label on it bearing the nota- 

 tion 'This is always to "be noticed round orange or lemon trees. 



Comp.ere.' 



Genus CELYPHUS Dalmann 



Until recently all the species of the subfamily except those assigned 

 to the preceding genus were located in Celyphus, but a few years ago 

 Hendel proposed the removal of certain species to the new genus 

 Spaniocelyphus, and this division is adopted herein as indicated in 

 the generic key. It is not possible, however, to definitely decide 

 the generic position of some of the previously described species. 

 Those I now have before me, or can definitely locate, are included 



