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Fall., Dipt. Suée. Ortalid., 14.22. (Tephritis) (1820); Walk., En- 

 tom. Mag., III.62.f.l (1836) et Inst. Brit.. II. 201. 7. {Trypeta) 

 (1853); Lw.. Germ. Zeitschr., V. 419. t. II. f. 70. {Trypi'ta) (1844), 

 Linn. enton.., 1.522.75. {Trypeta) (1846) et Trypetid., 62. 15. t. X. 

 f.l. {Trypeta) (1862); Zett.", Dipt. Scand., VI. 2256. 52. {Tephri- 

 tis) (1847); Frfld., Verh. zool.-hot. Ges. Wieu, XIII. 216. {Try- 

 2)eta) (1863); Schin., Faim. Aiistr., 11.134. {Trypeta) (1864) ; Rond., 

 Dipterol. Ital. Prodr., VIT. Tephrit. 44.18 (1870); Walk., ïh.^ 

 Eiitom., No. 92.345.88. {Trypeta) (1871); Kaltenb., Pflanzenf., 

 265.10. et 379.54. {Trypeta) (1872); Bez., Dipt. 8vr. et Aegypt., 

 63.141. (1909). 



hiteola Rob.-Desv., Myod., 759.2. {Tep/iritis) (1830); :^ Wieu., 

 Aussereurop. Zweifl. Ins., 11.491.22. (Trypeta) (1830). 



pallens Wied., Analeet. entom , 54.120. {Trypeta) (1824) et 

 Aussereurop. Zweifl., Ins., 11.502.40. {Trypeta) (1830); Meio., 

 Syst. Be.schreib., V.347.t.L.f.5. {Trypeta) (1826). 



palpatn Rob.-Desv., Myod., 759.1. (1830). 



DL4GN0SIS: — A .small yellowish-brown speeies, easily dis- 

 tinguished by its entirely hyaline wings, its yellow abdomen which 

 possesses irregular black spots on the upper margins of the segments 

 and by the short female ovipositor. 



Maie and Female. Length of body : 4.8 mm. ; ovipositor (after 

 Loew) : 0.8 mm. ; wing : 4 mm. 



DESCRIPTION: — Frons yellowish-brown but Iteeoming gra- 

 dually paler below and on the sides where it is pale yellow, almost 

 whitish ; this pale eolour extends on the two basai segments of the 

 antennne, face, cheeks and lower half of the occiput ; epistoma faint- 

 ]\- edged with yellow at the base, but darker towards the tip 

 where it is brownish; it possesses a few pale erect hairs; palpi pale 

 yellow but reddish-yellow at the tip; occiput dark yellowish-brown on 

 its upper half, which eolour extends on the vertex; vertical triangle 

 black ; antennae with the third joint less than twice the length of the 

 second, gradually tapering to the tip but not pointed and entirely 

 reddish-yellow; arista delicately pubescent. blackish except on its 

 basai third pale yellow. The pubescence on the sides of the frons is 

 délicate, inconspicuous and whitish, but much longer and bristly on 

 the occiput and blackish on the jaws ; 2 strong s.or. ; pvt. parallel ; ail 

 the bristles are black except the vt. brown and the pvt. and orp. 

 yellowish. 



Thorax elongated, quadrate, black on the dise except on the 

 lower and latéral margins and almost ail the pleurae where it is 

 from pale to dark yellow, the humeri are pale yellow, which eolour 

 extends longitudinally in an even line along the upper margins of 



