108 n. C. EFFLATOUN. 



Moritz and a femaL.- from Italy, kindly sent to me by Professer 

 Bezzi, which, I must admit vary somewhat from Loew's and Schi- 

 iier's descriptions. I cannot find, for instance, any traces of "4 

 rows of dark spots on the abdomen." 



T. arcjyrocephala may prove later to be indigeno\is to Egypt, 

 especially if one should gather metbodicallv the capitulums of varions 

 CompoAtae. Frauenfeld bas bred the adiilis from the flower-heads 

 of Aster amellus. 



TEPHRITIS PRAECOX, Loew. 

 (PL V fig. 1) 



Lw., Gcrm. Zeitschr., V. 391. t. II. f. 44. {Trypeta) (1844) et 

 Trypetid., 102. 9. t. XX. f. 4. (1862); Schin.. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. 

 WÎen, VIII. 674. 83 (1858); Ronu., Dipterol. Ital. Prodr., VII 

 Ortalid. 23. 22 (1871); Beck., Zeitschr. f. Hymen, u. Dipt., 

 V. 388. (1907). 



DIAGNOSIS: — A brownish-grey species distinguished bv the 

 wings which hâve more than 6 hyaline spots of iineqiial size in R"i 

 cell and by the femora which are bh-ickish excei)t tlieir extrême 

 apices yellow. 



Femnlc. Length of body : 4.4 mm.; ovi})ositor : 0.7 mm.; 

 wing : 3.6 mm. 



DESCRIPTION:— Head entirely yeUow except on tho hiteral 

 margins of the frons, face, jaws and antennae i)ale yellow owing to 

 a very délicate and minute white pulverulence ; the occiput is blackish 

 except its upper margin dark yellow and its latéral margins pale 

 yellow; s. or. 2, i.or. 2; the ocp. is composed of very minute black 

 bristles amongst which is found, hère and there one large obtuse 

 yellow bristle; ail the bristles are black except the upper .*.«/•., the 

 prt., the outer rt. yellow and the genal bristle almost white. 



Thorax entirely covered with a dense greyish-brown to brow- 

 nish-grey tomentmn which extends over the pleurae, mesophragma 

 and scutellum, and, which, on the dise, in certain lights has a golden 

 reflection; scutellum with 4 bristles; ail the bristles are black except 

 the pt. yellow; the pubescence is uniformlv short and yellow ail over. 



Abdomen entirelv covered with a brownish-grey tomentum which 

 is much less dense than on. the thorax; pubescence uniformly pale 

 yellowish ; apical bristles black ; ovipositor as long as the threc apical 

 segments of the al)domen together and muc'h less flattened than in 

 the other sjjccies of this genus; in fact the single female which I 

 possess from Kerdacé has an ovipositor which may be decidedly 



