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PAPERS PRESENTED DURING 1923. 
Hawaiian Trypetidae (Diptera). 
BY Ee hl RANG enn 
(Presented at the meeting of March 1, 1923.) 
| have received two letters from Prof. Dr. M. Bezzi, in 
reply to a box of Hawaiian fruit and gall-flies, and a request 
for his opinion on their nomenclature. He states that “Chacto- 
dacus cucurbitae and Ceratitis capitata are the usual forms,” 
... but thinks that crassipes, cratericola, and dubautiae should 
be retained in Tephritis, although he admits that they are “very 
like Trypanea, in having a star-shaped terminal spot, which 1s, 
however, combined with a net-like pattern continued to the, 
base of the wing.” He goes on to say that “these species seem 
to form a group peculiar to the Islands, only the unknown 
limpidapex being a more typical Tephritis.” 
At the July 6 meeting of the Society, last year, on the 
authority of Dr. Aldrich, I referred these three species to the 
genus 7rypanea. In view of Dr. Bezzi’s familiarity with the 
group, it might be wise to leave them in the genus Tephritis, 
but in order to distinguish them from the typical Tephritis, to 
place them in a sub-genus Trypanoidea, Tephritis crassipes 
(Thomson) being typical of the sub-genus. 7. sweseyi and 
T. limpidapex would not belong in this sub-genus. 

Proe. Haw. Ent. Soe., V, No. 3, December, 1!) 1 
