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EFFLATOUN. 



Trypeta Loew and other authors with the addition of Sitarea, which, 

 according to Robine;ai-l)esvoidy contained the species with banded 

 wings. It is one of the hirgest of the family and contains over 45 

 species from the Palaearctic Région and is also represented in the 

 Ethiopian and Indo-Australian Régions. 



The life-historv of some species are known. The larva of 7'. 

 rirensljW. in Europe feeds on the essential organs of the flowers of 

 Centaurea paniciilata, while in Egvpt 7". jacea, Rob.-Desv. lives in 

 the larval stage in the flowers of Centnuren aeçiyptiaca, and T . pla- 

 niscutellata. Beck., in the inflorescence of Pluchea dioscoridi.f. 

 Frauenfekl has bred, T. serrntidae L. in Europe from the inflo- 

 rescence of Carduus defloratus and C. acanthoides. 



TABLE OF EGYPTIAN SPECIES 



1 (()) de. normal. 2: wings without l)ands or 



markings. 



2 (5) scutellum vellow; wings hvaline; 2 s. or. 



black. 



3 (4) Abdomen vellow with black spots: ovi- 



positor short 1 t. serratulae, I.. 



4 (3) Abdomen entirely vellow ; ovij^ositor 



long and corneous 2 T.virens, Lw. 



"i (2) Scutellum grev. nnly at the tip yello- 

 wish; wings milky white: upper s. or. 

 short, white ^ "•". planîscutellata, li 



G (1) de. 4; wings with transver.^e vellow 



lj;iU,]_<; 4 T. jaceae, RuB.-Dtsv. 



TEREELIA SERRATULAE, Linne.^us 

 (PI. III fig. 3 and PI. I fig. 17) 



\... Svst. Nat.. X. 1.600. 90 (Mii.^ca) (1758). Faun. Suec. II. 

 461.1871 '{Trypeta) (1761) et Syst. Nat., XII. 997.118 {Mii.^ca) 

 (1766); F.ABR.. Spec. ins.. 11.453.96. {Mnsca) (1781), Entom. svst., 

 IV. 356.182. {Mmca) (1794) et Syst. Antl., 278.27. {Dacus) (1805); 



