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Preliminary Notes on the Genus Tephritis in Hawaii 

 (Diptera). 



BY E. H. BRYAN, JR. 



The Fauna Hawaiiensis records three species of Tephritis in 

 Hawaii. Of these T. crassipcs had been described as Trypcta 

 crassipcs by Thomson in Konghga Svenska Freg'atten Eu- 

 genics Resa Omkring Jorden, part H. page 583. the Zoological 

 results of the voyage of the Frigate TEugenie around the world 

 in 1851-1853. Grimshaw {ilaced this in the genus Tephritis and 

 added the two new species, T. liiiipidape.v and T. cratericola. 



February 3, 1910, ]^Ir. Terry, who had done some very 

 valuable work on Hawaiian Diptera. exhibited specimens and 

 read a note on "A New Oahuan Trypetid, Tephritis duhantiae," 

 before the Hawaiian Entomological Society. (See Proceedings, 

 n:147, 1912.) This paper was not published at the time, and 

 it, with many other valuable notes, became lost at the time of 

 INIr. Terry's sudden death on November 7, 1911. His specimens, 

 however, have been preserved, and we have endeavored to rede- 

 scribe these, using the original nauie of Tepliritis duhantiae. 



In 1906 a specimen of Tephritis. totally distinct from any 

 of these four, was captured in Palolo \'alley, the collector be- 

 ing unknown. In 1**12 Mr. Swezey added two more specimens, 

 one in March from Kaunmahona and one in September from 

 Pacific Heights on Diihautia. On November 17. 1918. Mr. 

 Swezey bred three more specimens from Diihautia taken on 

 Kaumuahona. Although these specimens are not identical in 

 wing pattern, yet in our mind they are similar enough to con- 

 stitute a single species, which we here describe as Tephritis 

 swezeyi. Another specimen taken August 29. 1018, bv Mr. 

 Swezey on Haleakala is similar, but cannot be placed in the 

 same species. All these specimens are characterized by very 

 dark fuscous wings, bearing an irregular luuubcr and arrange- 

 ment of hyaline spots. 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Rm'.. TV, Xo. .3, SpiitcMuluM-. 1921. 



