44 H. C. EFFI.ATOUN. 



MYIOPARDALIS PARDALINA. Bigot 

 (PI. II fig. 8 and PI. I figs. 3 and 24) 



BiG., Indian Mus. Notes I, 77. pi. 5 fig. 1 {C a rpo m y ia) {ISdl); 

 Cleghorn, I. c, II, 24 (Carpomyia) (1893); Lefroy, Indian Ins. 

 Pests, 171, fig. 194 (Carpomyia) (1906); Froggat, Report, 112 

 (Carpomyia) (1909); Bezzi, Boll. Labor. Zool. Portici, V, 9, 2, 

 fig. 1, 3, 4 (1910) et Mem. Indian Mus. III. (3), 132 (1913). 



DIA GNOSIS: — A yellowish, middle-sized species, easily dis- 

 tinguished by the black spotted thorax, scutellum, and by the four 

 yellow bands on the wings. 



Maie and Femal'e. Length of body : 5.2 — 7 mm., ovipositor : 

 0.5 mm., wing : 4 — 4.8 mm. 



DESCRIPTION:— Head entirely yellow; frons prominent but 

 somewhat darkened above the antennae; face almost flat, lighter in 

 the centre than at the sides; cheeks verv broad; proboscis short, and 

 as dark as the darkest part of the frons; palpi pale yellow, bearing 

 a few small and rather inconspicuous bristly hairs; occiput swollen 

 below and bearing some yellow hairs on its lower portion ; antennae 

 pale yellow, M'ith the very shortly pubescent arista dark brown for 

 more than its apical half. Ail the bristles are black except the prt. 

 which is yellow and the rather weak genal bristles brownish. 



Thorax with a very pale yellow ground coloiir, bearing conspi- 

 cuous black spots and three much less distinct thin longitudinal dark 

 yellow stripes on the upper half of the dise. The whole of the thorax 

 is clothed with yellowish pubescence, which is longer on the pleura? ; 

 the bristles are black except the i^t. which is brownish, and the al- 

 most obsolète sep., which are no more than yellow bristly hairs. The 

 black spots, which, on more than the basai half of the thorax, are 

 on the sides, are disposed as follows : one opaque on the humérus 

 cxactly above the hm . ; one large, shining on its upper half and opacjuc 

 and emarginate below and extending from the base of the npl. to 

 beyond the prst. and reaching the suture on its lower side; one much 

 larger on the anterior .w. extending laterally somewhat beyond the 

 de, ail shining, deeply emarginate above, less so below, and giving 

 the appearance of two spots running together, indeed sometiines it 

 is divided into two distinct spots; one shining and roundi.sh on the 

 postalar callus (which seems to join the side-spots of the .scutolluni); 

 finally,alarge shining central spot,immediately above thescutelluui, 

 which is rounded above and at the sides and straight below. The 

 scutellum is pale yellow. devoid of pubescence and bears five black 

 s])ots : two on the sides (appearing to run into those of the postala^' 

 calli); one central opaque, rounded, oval spot and two elongated 



