ART 18 DIPTERA OR TWO-WINGED FLIES ALDRICH 3 



the costal segment before the second vein neai"!}^ one and one-half 

 times the following one. 



Length 2.6 mm. 



One male, six females, Nishigahara, Tokyo, Japan, from larvae 

 boring in rice stems; one vial of affected stems in alcohol, and two 

 jDiiparia dry in vial. Two females will be returned to Professor 

 Kiiwana from the type lot. 



Type.— M?i\%, Cat No. 23927, U.S.N.M. 



Family TRYPETIDAE 

 Genus ANASTREPHA Schiner 



Aimstreplia Schinek, Novara Reise, 1868, p. 263. 



ANASTREPHA SCHAUSI, new species 



Male. — A reddish-yellow species with Aving pattern of 'pwrallelo.., 

 but the month strikingly ornamented. 



Head yellow, third antennal joint blackened on apical third, palpi 

 yelloAv ; the whole edge of mouth swollen and expanded, with a nar- 

 row shining black line on the prominent part ; above this line on tlie 

 sides the color is contrasting white, but across the face the black line 

 is less sharply defined and above it the color is yellow like the rest 

 of the face. 



Thorax yellow, a white pruinose stripe on middle of mesonotum, 

 wider behind, and a narrow whitish stripe above root of v\-ing. 

 Pleura yellow, whitish along the suture above. JNIetanotum and 

 halteres yelloAv. 



Abdomen yellow, unmarked, the fifth segment darker and more 

 shining, and almost equal in length to the third and fourth com- 

 bined. Legs yellow, the larger bristles brown. 



Wings with the clear area including the second basal cell con- 

 tinued distall}^ and forward to the costa Avithout interruption; the 

 inverted V-shaped hyaline area beyond this is not interrupted, 

 though somewhat narrowed, at the third vein. Thus there are three 

 separated areas of brown and yellow coloration, almost exactly as in 

 LoeAv's figure of parallella.^ 



Length, 10.6 mm. 



One male, Juan Vinas, Costa Hica, January 11, collected by Wil- 

 liam Schaus and J. T. Barnes, and named in honor of the former, 

 the distinguished lepidopterist. 



Typc—UalQ, Cat. No. 26837, U.S.N.M. 



ANASTREPHA BARNES!, new species 



Female. — A yellow species with wing pattern like parallela, fourth 

 vein more strongly curved forward than usual, and exceptionally 

 long ovipositor. 



1 Mod. N. Amer. Dipt., vol. Z, 1S73, pi. 11, fig. 20. 



