6é fi- c. efflatoun. 



9. UROPHORA, Kobineau-Desvoiuy. 

 Kob.-Desv., Myod., 7(>!). 12 (1830) 



Distinguished b}' the 1 s. or., 2 i.or; the four seutellar bri.slles; 

 the very weak costal bristle and the obtuse inferior angle of Cu eell. 



Head broader than high and usually more or less yellow ; f rons 

 broad, not proniinent; face short and flat; eyes fairly rounded ; 

 cheeks broad; epistoma not i:)rominent; proboscis a little elongated 

 and geniculate; paipi small, flat and bristly; antennae with the 

 third joint stout, twice longer than broad, straight above and round- 

 ed below; arista microscopically pubescent; s.or.l, short, i.or. 2; oc. 

 strong pvt. parallel; genal bristle présent; ocp. strong and well 

 developed; ail the bristles are black. 



Thorax short, convex, entirely black on the dise and the })leurae, 

 except for some yellow spots on the humérus and on the up})cr 

 margins of the mesopleurae and pteropleurae ; scutellum usually 

 more or less yellow. Chaetotaxy of the thorax complète; mjil. 2; 

 a.sc.2, b.sc.2; ail the bristles are black. 



Abdomen elongated, distinctly narrow at the base, convex, en- 

 tirely black, with latéral and apical bristles; female ovipositor long, 

 conical, shining black, somewhat swollen at the base and not flat 

 tened . 



Legs with the front femora beai'ing rows of bristles and the 

 middle tibiae a single spur. 



Wings proj)ortionately small, hyaline and usually with four 

 black bands united together above the middle of the wing; some 

 palaeartic species however possess entirely hyaliiio wings. Costal 

 bristle very weak, almost obsolète; R4-1-5 bare, a little undulated 

 and parallel with Ml ; radio-median cross-vein placed towards the 

 middle of Ist M2 cell: inferior angle of Cu cell very obtuse. 



TITE : Miisra .^olstltlnli.^ Linnaeus (1758). 



About thirty species are known from the palaearctic région, two 

 of which are known so far from Egypt, macriirn Lw. and qvadri- 

 fa^ciata Meig. They both seem to be flower-head feeders; the former 

 is believed to breed in the heads of 0/wpordon and Centauren sp. 

 and the latter in the heads of Centaurea sp. I hâve captured 

 the latter commonly on Centaurea paIIesTe?îs together with Trypa- 

 nea jaceae Rob.-Desv. 



