74 n. C. EFFLATOUN. 



This small but heautiful species is very commoii throughout 

 Lower Egypt. It seems to be found wherever the shrub Pluchca dios- 

 coridis grows, in the inflorescence of which the larva feeds and lives. 

 I hâve bred it from the inflorescence of this plant (together with 

 Terellia planisniteUata Beck.) from Ghezireh, Maadi, Barrage and 

 Alexandria. and Becker has'captured the adults on the same plant 

 in the désert near Siala (Fayum). My dates extend from March to 

 November. 



