40 n. C. EFFLATOUN. 



2. GARPOMYIA A. Costa. 



A. Costa, Annal, scient., i, 87, (1854); Rond., Bnll. soc. 

 entom. ital. i, 164. (1869); Bez., Boll. Labor. Zool. Portki, V, 

 (1910). 



Distinguished from the preceding genus, to which it is very 

 similar by the pattern of the body and wings, by the absence of the 

 oc, and the shape of the head. 



Head about as broad as high ; f rons slightly prominent ; face f hit 

 and the fair'y broad cheeks are narrower than in the preceding; 

 eyes a little narrowed ; epistoma not prominent; proboscis short, not 

 geniculate; palpi small and bristly; antennae inserted at, or imme- 

 diately below, the middle of the eyes, elongated; the third joint at 

 least twice the length of the second, not attenuated and pointed at 

 the upper corner ; arista microscopically pubescent ; .«.or. 2, /.or. 3 ; oc. 

 obsolète; pet. not long, parallel; ocp. feebly developed. Thoracic 

 chaetotaxy complète. Abdomen rather broad convex and bristly on 

 the lower margins and the tip. Maie genitalia and female ovipositor 

 similar as in Myiopardalis. 



Wings narrow, with a pattern similar to that of the preceding 

 genus, but the yellow cross-bands are sometimes much reduced ; costal 

 bristle distinct or double ; R2 + 3, R4 + 5 and Ml straight ; R4 + 5 bare 

 and parallel with Ml at the tip; radio-median cross-vein placed to- 

 wards the middle of Ist M2 cell. 



TYPE : Carpomyia vesuviana K Costa (1854) 



There has been great confusion over this genus. Bezzi has clearly 

 shown in his paper of 1910 that it was named in MS. by Rondani in 

 1870, while the original mention of the genus appeared in Prof. A. 

 Costa's rare paper "Framenti di entomologia napoletana, Naples 

 1854." Rondani, however, made matters worse by changing his 

 opinion no less than three times. proposing successively as type three 

 différent and quite distant specios. Hence the confusion, increased 

 later by Walker and by Schnier through the wrong interprétation 

 of the gen\is Orpllia, became greater and persi.sted until our time. 



Vp to the présent only two species hâve been described, both 

 from the Palaearctic Région and inhabiting différent species of 

 7Jzyphu.<, and as early as 1854 A. Costa stated that he obtained his 



