A Monoçjraph o/ Egyplian Ùipiera. 6i 



TABLE OF EGYPTIAN SPECIES 



1 (2) Middle and hiud femora entirely yellow; 



wings with the first aud second bands 



widely separated 1 macrura Lw, 



2 (1) Front, middle and hind tibiae black ex- 



eept at the tip ; wings with the first and 



second bands united above 2 quadrifasciata, Mi 



UROPHORA MACRURA Loew 

 (PL III fig. 1 and pi. I figs. 4 and 16) 



Lw., Stettin. entom. Zeitg., XVI. 40 {Trypetu) (1855) et Try- 

 petid., 69.4. tab. XI. fig. 1 (1862); Frfld., 8itzungs. Kais. Akad. 

 Wiss., XXII. 549 (1856); Schin., Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, VIII. 

 654.28 (1858) et Faun. Au.str., Dipt., IL 137 (1864); K.\ltenb., 

 Pflanzenf., 380.69 et 382.13 et 387.61 {Tn/pcta) (1872) ; Fitch., The 

 Entom.. XV. 138 (1882). 



lejura Rond., Dipterol. Ital. Prodr., VII. Teplinl. 19.10 

 (1870). 



DIAGNOSIS: — A small black species, easily distingnished 

 by the entirely yellow middle and hind femora and by the pattern of 

 the wings which possess the first and .second bands M'ell separated. 



Maie and Fernale. Length of body : 4.5—5 mm. ; ovipositor : 

 3.5—4 mm., wing : 4.7 mm. 



DFJSCRIPTION: — Frons reddish-yellow; face very pale yel- 

 low; cheeks broad, pale yellow and possessing in addition to the 

 genal bristle two longitndinal rows of minnte black bristles; pro- 

 boscis pale reddish-yellow with a few erect hairs; palpi pale yellow 

 except at the tip reddish-yellow and bearing some minute black 

 bristles; occiput for the most part blackish except above where it is 

 usually dark brownish-yellow ; antennae reddish-yellow, with the 

 arista black except at the base yellow. 



Thorax entirely black on the dise and covered with a minute, 

 dense, greyish-yellow pulverulence, except on the fore, hind and la- 

 téral margins; the humeri and the upper thirds of the mcsopleurae 

 and pteropleurae are pale yellow ; the rest of the pleurae are ail shin- 

 ing black ; the pubescence on the dise is short and black, but erect and 

 bristly; it is somewhat longer and bristly on the humeri; scutellum 



