412 insecta saundersiana. 



Dbosophila minuta. 



n Nigra, 71 liens ; tibice apice tarsignejlava ; alte limpidce. 



.yf Black, shining : abdomen wanting : feet and tips of shanks yellow : 



wings colourless ; veins tawny : halteres yellow. Length of the body § 

 line; of the wings I3 line. 



United Slates. 



Drosophila TAESALis, FcBm. 



Testacea ; fades albida ; thoracis discus cinereus ; abdomen apice piceo 

 trivittalum ; pedes antici albido-Jiavi, postici, femoribus tibiisque 

 apice tarsisque piceis ; alcB subcinerea:, ad coslam nigrce. 



Testaceous: face with a whitish covering : mouth tawny, third joint 

 of the feelers almost conical, much longer than the second ; sixth black, 

 tawny at the base, feathered with rather short hairs, more than twice the 

 length of the third : disk of the chest cinereous : abdomen obconical, with 

 three pitchy stripes towards the tip, not longer than the chest: fore-legs 

 whitish yellow ; hind-feet and tips of hind-thighs and of hind-shanks 

 pitchy ; hind-shanks pitchy at the base : wings slightly gray ; fore border 

 black ; veins pitchy : halteres yellow. Length of the body 1| line ; of the 

 wings 3^ lines. 



Brazil. 



Drosophila atra, Mas. 



Nigra, nitens ; caput testaceum , facie nigra ; tibiee posticcB genuaquefulva ; 

 alcB suhcinerece, ad costam picecB. 



Black, shining : head testaceous ; face black : mouth pitchy : abdo- 

 men obconical, longer than the chest : knees and hind-shanks tawny : 

 wings slightly gray ; fore border pitchy ; veins tawny : halteres pale tawny. 

 Length of the body 1 \ line ; of the wings 3 lines. 



Brazil. 



