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March 18, 1918, O. H. Swezey, Collector. Paratype specimens 
will be deposited in the collection of the Experiment Station of 
the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association and in the Bernice 
Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. 
Although this species is an importation from Mexico, there 
are no specimens in the National Museum from any part of 
the American Continent which have pale bristles. Hendel in 
Abhandlungen und Berichte des Konigl. Zoologischen und An- 
thropologisch-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden, Band 
XIV (1912), p. 54, published June 15, 1914, has given a syn- 
opsis of the South American forms belonging to this genus, 
none of which agrees with the present species. 
a LANTANA SEED-FLy. 
Agromyza lantanae* Froggatt. 
A minute shining black species, with black halteres, the male having 
very strong up-curved vibrissae. 
Male. Front one-third the head width; orbits very narrow, slightly 
shining, with four bristles; ocellar triangle shining, a little elongated. 
Antennae black, small, inserted below the middle of the eyes, a very dis- 
tinct prominence between them. Facial orbits very narrow, hardly visible; 
the cheek about one-sixth the eye-height, slightly wider anteriorly where 
it is a little produced and bears on each side a large bristle or, more 
correctly, a pencil of hairs which are glued together. This pencil is quite 
slender at the base and consequently much less tapering than in curvi- 
palpis Zett., coniceps Malloch and affinis Malloch. Palpi small, black. 
Mesonotum with two pairs of dorso-centrals, the small hairs covering the 
surface extending almost to the seutellum; the latter has four large 
bristles. Pleura shining black. Halteres black, calypters brown with 
blackish margin bearing a dense row of short black hairs. Abdomen shin- 
ing black without any blue or green reflection, not highly polished. Legs 
entirely black. 
Wings subhyaline, narrow at the apex, but widening rapidly toward the 
base and with a well-developed nearly square anal angle. The anterior 
cross-vein is barely beyond the tip of the first vein and at about two- 

* This name was first used by Froggatt in a paper on the Lantana Fly 
in the Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, XXX, pp. 665-668, 1919, 
with the impression that the insect had been previously described under 
that name. Froggatt gave a very brief description of the fly, not intended 
as a technical deseription, and entirely inadequate to distinguish the spe- 
cies. Hence, the advisability of the present description, although the name 
lantanae must be accredited to Froggatt. 
