64 H. C. EFFI.ATOUN. 



MYOPITES VARIOFASCIATA, Becker. 

 (PI. IV fig. 7 aiid r\ I figs 5 and 7) 



Beck., Mittell. Zool. Mus, Berlin II l;i]-]32 (1903) 



DIAGNOSIS: — A small brownisli speeies, easily distinguished 

 by the long geniculate proboscis, the absence of the costal bristle and 

 by the obtuse inferior angle of Cu cell. 



Maie and Femah . Length of body : 3.2 mm. ; ovipositor : 1 mm. , 

 wing : 2.5 mm. 



DESCRIPTION.— Head entirely yellow ; cheeks and palpi pale 

 yellow, the latter bearing some minute black bristles; occiput black; 

 vertex fairly broad with the black ocellar triangle very conspicuous 

 and covered with a minute pale yellow pubescence; arista black 

 except at the base which is yellow; ail the bristles are black. 



Thorax very dark reddish-brown, almost black, except on the 

 calli which are yellow, and entirely covered with a dense shining 

 golden-yellow pulverulence, which is paler and coarser on the pleu- 

 rae; scutellum yellow except on the two basai corners and the ex- 

 trême base blackish and bearing 4 bristles; ail the bristles are black. 



Abdomen black with a broad médian longitudinal dark yellow 

 band which is emarginate on the sides; in addition there are some 

 black spots in this yellow band, two on each segment and situated 

 one on each side of the médian line; the two on the first segment 

 are the broadest, elongated horizontally, with their outer margin 

 running into the black colour of the abdomen; the three other pairs 

 of spots (one pair on each of the second, third and fourth segments) 

 are smaller, elongated vertically and situated near the base of the 

 segments The pubescence on the abdomen is greyish and very mi- 

 nute, except on the lower margins of the two apical segments where 

 it is very long and blackish, and at the tip bristly; fifth abdominal 

 segment small and entirely shining black; maie hypopygium small, 

 rounded, black at the base and reddish-yellow at the apex; female 

 ovipositor almost as long as the abdomen, shining black except the 

 apical part which is reddish with two longitudinal black lines. 



Legs entirely reddish-yellow with the usual short blackish pu- 

 bescence. 



Wings hyaline, yellowish-brown at the base, with five trans- 

 verse bands, two of v/hich, the second and fourth, are almost com- 

 plète and the others incomplète; the first band is situated near the 

 base between RI and Cu2 + 2nd A and covering M and Cu cells; the 

 second, situated at about the middle of the wing, extends from the 

 Costa, over the radio-median cross-vein, almost tonching the lower 

 wing margin and its inner margin tonching the deep yellow stigma; 



