46 FAUNA HAWAIIENSIS 



(2) TepJiritis limpidapex, sp. nov. 



^. Long. Corp. 4 mm. ; al. 4 mm. Front dark purplish-brown, orbits and vertical 

 triangle obscure cinereous, face brownish-yellow with a slight greyish tomentum, palpi 

 dark brown, antennae short, reddish-brown. Thorax slaty-grey, with two pairs of 

 macrochaetae on the dorsum, which is also covered with golden pubescence, pleurae 

 yellowish-grey with copper-coloured pubescence, scutellum slaty-grey with two setae and 

 covered with golden pubescence. Abdomen slaty-grey, likewise covered with golden 

 hairs and with a few black bristles at the tip. Legs light reddish-brown. Wings with 

 a fuscous reticulated pattern which commences near the base of the wing but leaves a 

 comparatively large space at the apex quite clear, first costal cell quite clear, second 

 clear with two or three small brown spots touching the costal vein, third clear with an 

 oblique hour-glass-shaped brown spot, marginal cell with two large and a third small 

 limpid spot touching the costa, the former extending into the submarginal cell, which 

 has three limpid spots touching the costa, the posterior of these forming the upper portion 

 of the clear apical section of the wing, first posterior cell with the reticulation covering 

 its basal two-thirds, first basal and discoidal cell entirely covered with fuscous, each with 

 many small subequal limpid spots, third posterior and anal cells with very little reticula- 

 tion. 



Hab. Maui, one male, Haleakala crater, October 1896. 



Plate II. fig. 24, wing. 



(3) Tcphritis cratcricola, sp. nov. 



Long. corp. ^ 3 — 3^ mm., $ incl. ovipositor 4 — 5 mm. ; al. 3 — 4 mm. Front 

 reddish-brown, sometimes a little lighter behind, orbits, vertical triangle and a narrow 

 central stripe (which is sometimes absent) cinereous, occiput with very pale setae, face 

 cinereous or with a yellowish tinge, antennae blackish, with the first two joints lighter, 

 and in the female sometimes yellowish-brown, proboscis and palpi yellow, the latter with 

 dark tips. Thorax dark cinereous with three narrow, rather indistinct, blackish lines on 

 the dorsum, which with the pleurae is thinly covered with very pale pubescence, scutellum 

 with two setae and similar pubescence, halteres dark fuscous. Abdomen blackish, 

 slightly shining, covered with short black hairs and a {(t\N bristles on the terminal 

 segment, genitalia of Z conspicuous, blackish with pale pubescence, ovipositor of % 

 shining black, as long as the four preceding segments. Legs blackish-cinereous, fore 

 tibiae, fore and intermediate knees and all the tarsi lighter, varying from reddish-yellow 

 to pitchy-brown, fore femora with bristles above and below, fore metatarsus of ^ 

 expanded, shorter than the succeeding joint and furnished with conspicuous long bristles. 

 Wings hyaline with fuscous reticulation and showing the following principal features : 



