132 Bnlìetin de la Société Royale Ëntomologique d'Egypte 



Communications 



Two New species of Spheniscomyìa (Diptera, 

 Trypaneidae) from Egypt 



by Hassan C. Efflatoun 

 M. S. E. A. C. Rons. Eut., M.R.A.C, 



Sub-Director for Research, Entomological Section, 

 Ministry of Agriculture. 



Apparently only two species of this interesting 

 genus have been recorded from the palaearotic region, 

 S. qiiadrincisa Wied. and S. sexnmcalata Macq., 

 which have a very wide distribution in South Europe, 

 Africa, Asia and India, consequently the two following 

 species are an important and interesting addition to 

 the genus, as well as to the Egyptian Fauna. This 

 statement applies particularly to Spheniacomyia dchs- 

 kii, for it differs from the original description of the 

 genus by possessing only two scutellar bristles 

 instead of four. I have named this after Dr. Bronislaw 

 Debski, our well known and eminent naturalist, who 

 first found one of the two species in 1908 and 

 who bred two adults from the inflorescence of Stachys 

 aegyptiaca Pers. Unfortunately both imagos had been 

 lost before I had the chance of examining them so 



