182 Journal New York Entomological Society. [VoL vii. 



Rhagoletis caurina, sp. nov. (PI. Ill, Fig. 5). 



9 • Black ; head and its appendages yellow ; front darker, rather broad, not 

 narrowed anteriorly ; bristles black ; oral opening rather large ; margins only slightly 

 projecting ; proboscis and palpi moderately long ; dorsal side of third joint of antennae 

 only slightly concave, anterior corner rounded ; arista black ; occiput black ; thorax 

 black, sparsely dusted with whitish pollen and with thick short black pile ; scutellum fo^ 

 the most part yellow, black at sides, with four black bristles ; legs for the most part 

 reddish yellow ; coxce, a spot at base of femora and the fourth and fifth tarsal joints 

 black ; the spot at base of femora sometimes fomis a more or less complete band and 

 the third tarsal joint is sometimes also darker. Abdomen shining black with thick, 

 short, black pile ; ovipositor shining black, flattened, a little longer than the three pre- 

 ceding segments taken together. Wings hyaline with a brown picture consisting of 

 short bands and dots, arranged as follows : a rather faint dot on humeral vein ; a 

 narrow band running from the first vein across the basal cross-veins ending abruptly at 

 the sixth vein ; a broader band beginning in the costa just before the tip of the first 

 vein and running across the anterior cross-vein, ending abruptly at the fourth vein ; a 

 short band beginning in the costa a short distance beyond the tip of the first vein and 

 ending abruptly on the third vein ; a dot at the tip of the second vein ; a spot in the 

 tip of the wing filling the tip of the first posterior cell and extending into the extreme 

 tip of the sub-marginal cell ; a short band across the first posterior cell below the tip 

 of the second vein, a band covering the posterior cross-vein ; a rather large roundish 

 dot on the fifth vein about the middle of the length of the discal cell. Length, 3.5 

 mm. One female. 



Habitat: Oregon. 



Although the picture on the wings of this species differs greatly 

 from any of its co-genators, the general structure and coloring of the 

 body is so like that of other Rhagoletis that I do not hesitate to assign 

 it to this genus. 



Aciura insecta Lotto. Jamaica, W. I. 

 Aciura ferruginea, sp. nov. (PI. Ill, Fig. 6). 



Head and its appendages yellow ; front rather broad hardly narrowed anteriorly ; 

 bristles reddish brown ; third joint of antenna? rounded at tip ; arista yellow at base, 

 darker towards tip ; palpi and proboscis long. Thorax cinerous, covered with a thick, 

 short, reddish pile ; scutellum yellowish along the posterior margin, with two bristles ; 

 legs wholly yellow ; front femora with rather long yellow hairs below. Wings dark 

 brown, yellowish at base with the following spots whitish hyaline : Two in costal 

 cell ; two in marginal cell beyond the tip of first vein, the second extending quite across 

 the sub-marginal cell ; two in the second posterior cell ; three in the third posterior 

 cell, the middle one of these being smallest and not reaching the margin as do the 

 others ; a round one in the first basal cell opposite the stigma and a similar one in the 

 discal cell beyond the anterior cross-vein. In the region of the anterior cross-vein the 

 dark brown of the wing is variegated with a somewhat yellowish irregular spot ; a 

 very much smaller but similarly colored spot also occurring in the stigma ; first and 

 third veins bristly, latter with only a few weak ones. 



