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Key to the Hawaiian Tephritis. 



a. Wings without large, conspicuous, fuscous spots ; pattern — • 

 a simple network ; front purplish ; thorax and abdomen 

 slaty-gray. TepJiritis I'uupidapcx Grimshav/ 



a'. Wings with two large fuscous spots ; the larger extending 

 from costa to 4th longitudinal vein, toward the apex of the 

 wing', beyond the posterior cross-vein, containing one or 

 more small hyaline spots ; smaller fuscous spot in the 3rd 

 sub-costal cell : spots and margins of wing connected by 

 fuscous network ; front yellow or reddish-brown. 



b. Legs dark, black or reddish-brown : abdomen elongate, 

 terminal segments shining black ; antennae black. 



Tcp/iritis cratcricola Grimshaw 



b'. Legs light, yellow-brown ; abdomen and thorax plum col- 

 ored, with white tomentum ; front and antennae yellowish. 



c. Size larger (length 4 to 5 mm.); 3rd sub-costal cell with 

 hyaline spot in apex. Tephritis crassipes (Thomson) 



c'. Size smaller (length 2 to 3 mm.) ; fuscous spot in 3rd sub- 

 costal cell encloses a large hyaline spot in its center, leav- 

 ing only a ring of fuscous. Tephritis duhauiiae sp., n. 



a''. Wing entirely dark fuscous, with a variable number and 

 arrangement of hyaline spots ; thorax bluish gray, white 

 shagreen, with three darker longitudinal stripes ; abdo- 

 men concolorous, last segment in female shining brown. 



TepJiritis szvezeyi sp. n. 



Distribution of the Species of Tephritis in Hawaii. 



Tephritis crassipes (Thomson). 



Hawaii: Kona, 4000 ft. (Perkins) ; Pahala, Hakalau (Szve- 



aey ) . 



Kauai: 2000-30C0 ft. {Perkins). 



Oahu : Honolulu (Thomson, BridzveU) ; Waianae Mts., 

 3000 ft. {Perkins); Honolulu, on Coreopsis (Terry); 



