.1 Monoqraph o/ Egyptian Diptcra. 519 



Omho. Keneh, Asswan aiid in Wadi Hm-Biar, near Kosseii'. My 

 dates extend from January 12th to December 20th 1922. It is re- 

 corded from other parts of North Africa, Europe, Asia Miuor, Per- 

 sia, Chinese Turkestan and Canary Islands. 



I hâve recently bred T. eluta from the capituhun of Silyb/im 

 marianum from Ezbet-el-Nakhl (20.V.1924) and from Centaurea 

 pallescens and aegyptiara (TH.— VI. 1924) from Kerdaeé and Helio- 

 polis. In Europe the larva is known to feed in the flower-heads of 

 several Compositac such as Onopordon. Amberboa and C'cntniirea. 



TRYPANEA AMOENA. Fr.auenfeld. 

 (PI. V fig 6) 



Frfld., Ber. d. K.K. Akad., XXII. 542. f. 2. {Tn//>rfa) (1856) 

 et Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, XI. 165. {Urellia) (1861) ;' Wollaston, 

 Ann. Mag. of Nat. Hist.. I. 269 {Tephritif^) (1858); Schin., Verh. 

 zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, VIII. 682.116. {llreUin) (1858) et Faun 

 Austr., II. 170. (Tephritis) (1864); Lw., Trvpetid., 120. 5. t. XXV. 

 f. 2. (UrplI/a) (1862); K.'^ltenb., Pflanzenf'., 390.6 et 394.34 (Teph- 

 ritis) (1872); Beck.. Zeitsehr. f. Hymen, u, Dipt., V. 385.414 

 {Urellia) (1907) et Annuair. d. Mus. Zool. d. TAcad. Imp. d. Rcience 

 de St. Petersb., XVII. 643.310 (Trupanea) (1912). 



parideîis/s Rond., Dipterol. Ital. Prodr., VII. Ortalid. 29.2. 

 (Ditricha) (1871). 



radmtap.p., Walk., Entom. Mag., III. 74. (inel. f. 19.) (Urel- 

 lia) (1844). 



stellata Lw., Germ. Zeiti^chr., V. 411.71. rarA. (Tryprta) 

 (1844). 



DIAGNOSIS.— Distinguished hy the 3 dark radiating nar- 

 row bands reaching the po.sterior apical margin of wing. 



Maie and Female. Length of bodv : 3.2—5 mm.; ovipositor : 

 1.1 mm.: wing : 3.3—4.3 mm. 



DESCRIPTION : — Head entirely pale yellow and covered 

 with a délicate white tomentum ail over; proboscis and palpi yellow; 

 antennae with the third ioint usually brownish-yellow; eyes of a 

 bfautiful iridescent metallic green colour when alive. which folour 

 often persists in dried spécimens ; ail the bristles are blackish-brown 

 except the upper î^.or.. the rt., the prt. and the nrp). pale vellowish; 

 often the longer rt is brown. 



Thorax, scutellum, pleurae and mesophragma entirely grey to 

 yellowish-grey owing to their beina: covered with a very dense tomen- 

 tvim of that colour; scutellum with only one pair of b.fc.' ail the 



