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showing a reddish tinge and the picture of the wing being more 

 brownish. 



Tephritis californica, sp. nov. (PI. IV, Fig. 7). 



9 . Head and its appendages, legs, humeri, a line running from humeri to ba?e 

 of wings and the scutellum, except the black median portion, yellow ; front rather 

 broad somewhat narrowed anteriorly ; postorbital bristles and a single pair of 

 frontal bristles yellow, other bristles of the head as well as those of the thorax and 

 scutellum dark brown, almost black ; third joint of antennre rounded ; arista brown- 

 ish, yellowish at base. Thorax black with yellow pollen and short yellow pile. Ab- 

 domen brown with very thick rather long yellow pile ; ovipositor flattened ; black 

 except a lateral reddish or yellowish spot on either side, not quite as long as the two 

 preceding segments taken together ; bristles on the posterior margin of sixth segment 

 brown. Wings rather broad with a yellowish or brownish tinge ; with a brown reticu- 

 lation indistinct in basal portions, but fonning two irregular cross-bands in the distal 

 portions, one near the middle and the other toward the apex of the wing ; the first of 

 these is narrower and runs from the costa across the stigma and the two cross-veins 

 and reaches the posterior margin at the tip of the fifth vein ; the second, which extends 

 across the apical portion of the wing, emits three rays; the first, which is narrower and 

 rather broken, reaches the anterior margin between the tip of the first vein and the 

 cross-band itself; the second, which is also narrow, reaches the margin at the tip of 

 the third vein ; the third reaches the margin at the tip of the fourth vein, where it 

 widens somewhat ; both of the cross-bands are everywhere marked with mostly round- 

 ish hyaline or sub-hyaline dots, third vein with only a few bristles. Length, 5 mm. 

 One female. 



Habitat : California. 



Tephritis rufipennis, sp. nov. (PI. IV, Fig. 8). 



<J . Brown ; head and its appendages, legs and a spot on the humeri yellow ; 

 front rather broad, slightly naiTowed anteriorly ; postorbital bristles and a single pair of 

 the frontal bristles yellow ; other bristles of the head as well as those of the thorax 

 and scutellum dark brown, almost black ; third joint of antenna rounded ; arista brown, 

 yellowish at base. Thorax almost black with thick short yellow pile ; humeri and 

 sometimes a narrow line running from humeri to base of wing yellow ; metanotum 

 prominent, black faintly dusted with grayish pollen ; legs and feet dark yellow beset 

 with many short black hairs and some yellow ones ; femora sometimes slightly darker. 

 Abdomen brown with thick yellowish pile. Wings rather broad with a yellowish 

 tinge ; two wide brown reticulated cross-bands, the first near the middle, the second 

 toward the apex ; the first begins on the costa, crosses the stigma and, constantly 

 growing wider posteriorly, crosses both the cross-veins and reaches entirely to the 

 posterior margin ; a rather broad spur branches ofi" in the region of the fifth vein, filling 

 the base of the third posterior cell and part of the axillary corner of the wing, but not 

 reaching the posterior margin ; the second band beginning in the costa at the tip of 

 the second vein and ending in the posterior margin of the second posterior cell is 

 separated from the first anteriorly by a somewhat triangular hyaline space, the apex of 

 the triangle resting on the fourth vein ; sometimes, however, the hyaline space does 



