.1 Monograph nf Egyptian Diptera. 



species (resui-iana) from the fruits of Z/zi/phus satira. The pupae 

 of this and the second species are pale in colour, and according to 

 Bezzi are similar in ail respects to that of Rkagoletis cerasi Linn., 

 which has been carefuUy and accnrately studied bv Prof. Mik, 

 (Wien Entom. Zeitg.. 279. X. taf. IV, (1898), 



C. incompleta Beck is the only species of the two knowu from 

 Egypt and ils larva inhabits the fruits of Zizyphi's spiini-christi 

 and Z. jujiiba. 



CARPOMYIA INCOMPLETA Becker 

 (PI. II fig. 6 and PI. I fig. 20) 



Beck., Mitteil. Zool. Mus. Berlin, II. 135. 219. {Trypeta) 

 (1903): Bez. 1910, 1911, 1913, 1918; Silvestri, Boll. Labor." Zool. 

 Portici,XI. 176. fig. 8. (1916). 



DIAGNOSIS: — A chnracteristic little fly, at once distinguish- 

 ed by its entirely pale yellowish body, the two blaclv spots on the 

 mesophragma and by the incompletely banded wings. 



Maie and Female. Length of body : 3.3 — 3.5 mm. ; ovi})ositor : 

 0.4 mm. ; wing : 3.5 mm. 



DESCRIPTION:— Head entirely yellow, except on the eyc 

 margins, face and cheeks very pale yellowish, owing to a very déli- 

 cate and minute whitish pulverulence ; eyes somewhat elongated, 

 being about one and a half times higher than broad; cheelcs broad, 

 proboscis very short and bearing some pale yellow, erect bristly 

 hairs; antennae elongate and narrow, with the third joint pointed 

 at the upper corner of the tip ; arista almost bare, blackish, except at 

 the base yellow. There is a row of small blackish hairs on the lower 

 margin of the cheeks and two minute black hairs on the ocellar 

 triangle; ail the bristles are brownish except the 2?i"^., the ocp. and 

 the genal bristles which are pale yellow. 



Thorax wholly yellow, with the three usual darker longitudinal 

 lines on the dise, and entirely covered with a délicate whitish pul- 

 verulence; scutellum shining yellow : two characteristic shining 

 rounded black spots are présent on tlie lower si de of the meso- 

 ])hragma; in addition there is a small black spot on the upper margin 

 of the pteropleurae, immediately behind the wing base; the pubes- 

 cence on the dise is very short but fairly den,se, even and yellowish; 

 on the scutellum it is much scarcer ; the pleurae are almost bare except 

 for a few longer yellowish hairs on the lower side of the mesopleurae 

 and on the sternopleurae ; ail the bristles are brownish-yellow, but 

 those on the pleurae are somewhat paler. 



