94 ti. C. EFFI,ATOUN. 



spots touching the upper wing margin, the f irst is immediately after 

 the stigma and touches the apex of the latter, the second is the 

 largest and almost square in shape, runs into a much smaller spot 

 in R3 cell, and the third is the smallest and situated in the apical 

 third of RI cell; thèse three spots are almost equidistant from each 

 other: at the tip of R3 there is a second rounded spot; in the apical 

 half of R cell there is a rounded spot which runs into a larger spot 

 in Ist M2 cell ; in R5 cell there are two spots, the f irst is the smallest, 

 touches Ml and is situated above the médian cross-vein; the second 

 is at the extrême tip of the cell ; the upper and outer margins of this 

 spot touch R4-f 5 and the wing margin respectively but its lower 

 margin does not quite touch Ml ; in the apical fourth of Ist M2 cell 

 there is a second smaller spot ; in 2nd M2 cell there are two elon- 

 gated spots touching the lower margin of the wing but onlv the 

 upper margin of the second spot touches Ml ; finally there are four 

 spots in Cul cell, the two first of thèse are situated one above the 

 other, the lower covering the tip of Cu2 + 2nd A, the third is the 

 largest, touches the lower margin and the fourth very small, below 

 the médian cross-vein; ail the veins are yellow at the base and on 

 the hyaline spots, except the humerai cross-vein blackish; stigma 

 entirely black. 



Legs entirely reddisb-yellow. Squo.mulae whitish: haltères yeJ 

 low. 



Only four spécimens of this interesting species are known si, 

 far. Of thèse two maies and one female were captured by Dr. Th. 

 Becker in Cairo, in November 1898 and Marchl899. The remaining 

 spécimen is a maie which was tired from flower-heads of Ceruann 

 /jrrt/^n.^/VForsk. collected on the West bank of the Rosetta brandi 

 of the Nile, North of the Delta Barrage (about 16 miles North of 

 Cairo) by Mr. N. D. Simpson, on July 4th 1924. 



Note ; W liile this papor was in tho pivss Professor Bezzi informée! me tliat liis 

 Spalhuliiia paica which is so widely spread in the Oriental Région. Australia anil 

 South Africa is only a variety of pàrcegultata Becl<. In addition SpcUh. acrosiicta 

 Bezzi .seems to be also a synonym of tlie same species. 



It niay also be nseful to record that thèse thrce abovo mentioned namo^ 

 {parceyiitûita Becl<., pareil Bozzi and ncrosticla liezzi) will \ery probahly even- 

 tually fall as synonynis t)f a species described by Schiner from Australia. Prof. 

 Bezzi is working on "this pnol)lem and will deal fuîly with it in an inTportant woik 

 on the Diptera of tlie Fiji Islands which he is on tiie point of completing. In any 

 case even if the synonymy of thess three names is proved to be true thcy will 

 always remain good to indicate varieties, as Schiner's species from Australiii does 

 not possess any isolat«d dark spots at the extremàty of R4 + 5. 



In South .Àfrica the lan'a is known to live on Composites of tlie genus 

 Ilelichrysnvi. 



