À Mouo(]raph nf Egyptiau Diptera. 63 



8. MYOPITES, Brkbisson. 

 Bréb., Mém. Soc. Linn. de Normand., 1826-27 



Stylia p.p. Rob.-Desv., Myod., 755 (1830). 



Distinguished by the shape of the head, the stroiig oc, the 

 very long and geniculate proboseis, the obsolète costal bristle and by 

 tlie obtuse inferior angle of Cu cell. 



Head mueli deeper than high and deeper than l)road; frons 

 broad and very elongated; face short, concave; eyes fairly rounded; 

 cheeks narrow to médium; epistoma very prominent and the mouth 

 opening, vi^hich is proportionately wide, is very elongated; proboseis 

 very long and geniculate; palpi large and prominent but not broad 

 and bearing minute bristles; antennae short but stout; the third 

 joint, which is less than one and a half times the length of the 

 second, is rounded at the tip but not pointed and bears a very minute 

 but dense pubescence; arista short and microscopically pubescent; 

 2)vt. weak and parallel; oc. strong; s.or.l, i.or.2; genal bristle and 

 oc p. well developed. 



Thorax rather elongated, convex with a complète chaetotaxy; 

 scutellum with four bristles. 



Abdomen elongated, usually with the lower margins of the seg- 

 ments protruding in the centre, especially in the maie; female ovi- 

 positor long, conical and not flattened. 



Legs normal ; middle tibia with a single spur. 



Wings comparatively narrow and elongated, pellucid with elon- 

 gated brownish or yellowish-brown spots forming transverse half- 

 bands and rarely complète bands; costal bristle obsolète; R4 + 5 bare; 

 Ml not straight, it's apical third convergent to R4 + 5; radio-median 

 cross-vein placed towards the middle of Ist M2 cell ; inferior angle 

 of Cu cell obtuse. 



TYPE : Mi/opites blotti Brébisson (1830). 



So far only one species is recorded from Egypt, but nothing is 

 known about its life-history. In Europe another species {M. inulae. 

 V. Ros.) has been bred from species of Imda and PnUcana. 



