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mity of the wing'"' Becker * states that he lias foimd 2'. vuttriatrine 

 in Cairo and ueighbourhood, l)ut I présume that he means T . spretii. 



TEPHRITIS TESSETJ.AÏA, Loew. 



Lav., Germ. Zeitsclir., V. ;-596. t. IL f 49 {Tryfetn) (1844). 

 Einn. entom., I. 518.59. {Tnjpeta) et Trypetid., 90.8. t. XVII. 

 f. 1-2. {Oœyna) (1862); ZETT.,"Dipt Scand., VI. 2236. 50. (1847); 

 Frfld., Sitzungsber. d. Kais. Akad. d. Wiss , XXII. 554. {Oxyna) 

 (1856) et Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien., XI. 164. {Oa;yiin) (1861); 

 ScHiN., Verb. zool -bot. Ges. Wien, VIII. 671. 71. {().Tyiia) (1858) 

 et Faun. Austr., II. 156. (1864): Kaltenb., PHanzenf.! 396. 16 et 

 399. 45. (Trypeta) (1872); Wachtl, Wien. ent Zeitg., I. 277. 12. 

 {Oœyna) (1882); Beck., Acta Soc. scient. Fenn., XXVI. 61. 126 

 {Oœyna) (1900) et Mitteil. Zool. Mus. Berlin. II. 135.218 {O.ryna) 

 (1903). 



leontodonti f Zett.. Ins. Lapp., 745.5. r<ir h.r. (1847). 



pnncteUa rar. (1 Fall., Dipt. Suec. Ortalid,. 13.21. (1820). 



DIAGNOSIS: — A médium size s})ecies much ressembling 7\ 

 matricariae but distinguished from it liy the wings which possess 

 the base of Ist M2 dark and by the gênerai colour. 



Maie and F^niialc. Length of body : 3.5-4.3 mm, ; ovipositor : 

 0.8 mm.; wing : 4 nmi. 



DESCRIPTION:^ Head entirely yellow to reddish-yellow, 

 but the frons is usually greyish-yellow above and reddish-yellow on 

 its lower two thirds; occiput blackish except on the upper margin 

 and below greyish-yellow like the vertex; vertical triangle blackish; 

 the head is covcrod with a délicate tomentum which is conspicuously 

 whitish on the eye margins, the cheeks and antennae ; proboscis short, 

 with the basai portion reddish-yellow in front but blackish behind, 

 iixià the terminal portion reddish-yellow; s. or. 2, i.or. 2; ail the 

 bristles are black except the upper >:.or. the outer rt.. the prt. the 

 ocp. and the genal bristle yellowish. 



Thorax dense ly covered with a tomentum which is usually grey 

 to brownish-grey on the dise, greyish-brown on the sides and u^^per 

 margins of the pleurae and greyish again on the pleurae below : 

 occasionally the three darker longitudinal lines are just perceptiltlc 

 on the dise ; scutellum with 4 bristles and possessing a grey or grey- 

 ish-yellow tomentum. 



(*) Becker, Dr. Th.. Mit(oil. Zodl. Mus. ncriiii, H. 132.214, lOO.I. 



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