g2 H. C. EPFLATOU:^. 



above mentioned plant from flower lieads collectée! in Ghezireh, 

 Maadi, Barrage and Alexandria. It seems to live in company with 

 S. moebiiisi Beck. (in the larval stage) as in ail tlie above mentioned 

 cases both species were bred tgoether. My dates extend from 

 ] ebruary to November 1923 but in ail probability they could be 

 l.nind and l)red the whole vear round. 



TERELLIA JACEAE Rorineau-Desvoiuy. 

 (PI. III fig. 6). 



Rob.-Desv , Mvod., 766. 1. (Tephritis) (1830); Duf., Ann. Soc. 

 entom. Fr., 48. (Trypeta) (1857); Lw., Trypetid., 52.I.t.VII.f.l. 

 {Tiypeta) (1862); Frfld., Verh. zool.-bot Ges. Wien, XIII. 215. 

 {Trypeta) (1863): Schin., Faun. Austr.. 11.126. {Trypeta) (1864): 

 Rond., Dipterol. liai. Prodr., VII. Tephrit 38.6. (1870); Kal- 

 TENB., Pflanzenf., 387.59. (Trypeta) (1872). 



arctii Meig., System. Beschr., V. 317. 10. t. XLVIII. f . 28. 

 {Trypeta) (1826) ; Macq., Suit, à Buff., II. 467. 25. [Tephritis) 

 (1835); Beck., Zeit.schr.f. HyTuenopt. u. Dipt.. 11.236.10. {Try- 

 peta) (1909). 



dorsalh Rob.-Desv., Myod., 766.2. {Tephrit is) (1830). 



punctataLw., Germ. Zeitschr., V.328.t.I.f.9. {Trypeta) (1844); 

 Zett., Dipt. Scand., VI.2186.12. {Tephritis) (1847). 



pnsilla Rob.-Desv., Myod.. 760.3. {Tephritis) (1830). 



DIA GNOSIS:— A handsome yellow species with banded wings 

 and immediately distinguished bv the 4 de. and by the inferior 

 angle of Cu cell wliich is dvawn ont into a very long and ])ointc(l 

 angle. 



Maie and Female. Length of l)û(ly : 3.8-4.5 mm., ovipositor : 

 1.3 mm.; wing : 3.^4.2 mm. 



DESCRIPTION.— Head entirely reddish-yellow except the 

 face and antennae pale yellow and the ocellar triangle blackish; 

 cheeks fairlv broad : there'are some minute black hairs on the latéral 

 margins of the frons and some much longer ones on the cheeks: the 

 occiput, which is convex, also possesses some pale yellow hairs; an- 

 tennae rather elongated with the third joint ronnded at the tip; 

 arista blackish but reddish-yellow at the base; ail the bristles are 

 black excejjt the prt. and the genal bristle pale yellowish. 



Thorax reddish-yellow with eight shining black rounded spots 

 on the dise, from which arise the prst., the a. npl. and the four cha- 



