.1 MiuiDfiiaph nf Egyplinn Diiilera. 



Classification 



Up till 1S70 the iiame Tephritidiie wns used for tliis fjnnily 

 but owing to the fact tliat Meigen's uame for the genus Tnjpeia 

 (1803) is earlier than Latreille's Tejjkritis (1804) the family iiame 

 Trypetidae haa been used universally until récent times. Since theii, 

 l'owever, it was diecovercd quite recently that Trypeta Meigeji 

 (1803) is the ?ame as Eiiribia Meigen (1800), hence Czerny (1909) 

 has proposed to call the family Euribiidae. Bezzi, however, has 

 stated (1907) and Jater (1913) that the genus Tnjpnnea (Trupanea) 

 of Schrank (1795) must be employed in place of Urellia of Robineau- 

 Desvoidy and Loew (1830) and that therefore the family name mu;-t 

 be drawn from this genus and must be Trypaneidae. 



The subdivision of the family Trypaneidae is very difficult 

 and up to the présent no one has been abîe to accomplish it in a satis- 

 factory manner. 



Bezzi's proposition to divicie the family iuto two subfamilies 

 the Dacinae and Trypaneinae, the latter into three tribes, the Cera- 

 titininae, Myiopitininae, and Trypaneininne is in my opinion the 

 best ono and I havo adopted it. Thèse subfamilies and tribes are dis- 

 tinguished as follows: — 



"1. Suhfdïnihj DiiciiHic. Antennae elongate, as long as or 

 longer than the face, usually bare or very rarely shortly pilose. Oc. 

 wanting; prt. wanting or very small ; ocp. wanting. Hm., prst. and 

 de. wanting; anterior sa. and pr.^c. sometimes wanting; pt. usually 

 weak; .ft. wanting. Abdomen of the female with the last segment 

 (5th or 6th) hidden. Front femora without bristles below, or very 

 rarely bristly. Scutellum with 2 or 4 bristles; if the bristles are only 

 two it is always the basai (not the apical) pair that is absent. Wings 

 with the auxiliary vein very approximate to the first longitudinal 

 vein, and often very little distinct; the first three longitudinal veins 

 are usually very approximated, the others are distant, the small 

 cross-vein is therefore very long and oblique. Second basai cell usual- 

 ly very much dilated, and short at tht base; anal cell narrowed, its 

 inferior angle usually drawn ont into a very long point, much longer 



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