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records extend from January 18th to July 27th 1922. The food plant 

 iii Egypt is not known so far but in Europe the larva is known to 

 feed in the flower-heads of a great many composite plants, such as 

 Aster, Chrysnnthemiim, Anthcmis, Hiernrium. Serrât i/hi, Iiiiila, 

 Senecio and others. 



This species is known from other parts of North Africa, Euro})e, 

 Asin Minor, Canary Islands and C'hinese Turkestan. 



TRYPANEA AUGUR, Frauenfeld. 

 (PI. V fig. 5 and PI. I fig. 15 and 23) 



Frfld.. Sitzungsher. d. Kais. Akad. d. Wiss., XXII. 

 557. fig. 10. {UrelUa) (1856): Lw., Berlin, Entom. Zeitg., V.304. 

 t. II. f. 30. (Urellia) (1861); Beck., Zeitsehr. f. Hymen, u. 

 Dipt.. V. 385.415. {Urellia) (1907) et Annuair d. Mus.^ Zool. d. 

 l'Acad. Imp. d. Se. d. 8t. Petersb., XVII. 644. 311. (Trupanea) 

 (1912). 



DIAGNOSIS:— Distinguished by the 2 i.or. and by the 5 dark 

 narrow bands reaching the posterior and apical margins of the wing. 



Maie and Female. Eength of body : 4--4.6 mm. ; ovipositor : 

 0.6 mm.; wing : 3.8—4 mm. 



DESCRIPTION: — Head entirely pale yellow and covered 

 with a délicate pale yellow tomentum which, on the frons is almosi. 

 white; ail the bristles are blackish to brownish except the upper 

 s. or., the outer rt., the prt. and the oep. whitish; genal bristle 

 strong and accompanied by some Avhite bristly hairs 



Thorax, pleurae, scutellum and mesophragma entirely covered 

 with a dense cinereous tomentum and with a very pale yellow pub- 

 escence; ail the bristles are brownish except the p.npl. and the pt. 

 pale vellow; the m pi. and the latter are accompanied by some yel- 

 lowish bristly hairs; scutellum with only one pair of &..^r. 



Abdomen entirely covered with a cinereous tomentum and with 

 a similar pubescence as that of the thorax; ovipositor dark reddish- 

 yellow, shining and as long as the two apical segments of the ab- 

 domen together. 



Legs entirely reddish-yellow; front femora with n row of bristles 

 beneath; middle tibiae with a single spur. 



Wings characterised by the dark patch which is more extensive 

 than in the other three species and which give rise to 5 rays reaching 

 the apical and posterior margins; this dark patch almost entirely 

 covers the stigma and almost the whole of RI, R3 and R5 cells, leav- 

 ing the bases of thèse cells hyaline as well as the apices of the two 



