116 PROF. M. BEZZI. 



have a brown spot below the lower corner of the eyes. Antennae much longer than 

 the face, entirely yellow ; first joint porrect, only a little shorter than the elongate 

 second joint, which is pendulous like the third ; third joint a little shorter than the 

 first two together, slightly attenuated but obtuse at the end ; the bare, very thin, 

 yellow arista is inserted near the base and is as long as the last two joints together. 

 Palpi broad, yellow, with very short pale hairs ; proboscis dark brown, with yellowish 

 pilose flaps. All the bristles of the head are black. Thorax entirely reddish, densely 

 punctulate, with short yellowish pubescence, there are the following yellow markings : 

 entire humeral callosities, but less bright than the other markings ; sutural calli ; 

 a broad stripe on the mesopleura, which is broadly margined with black in front 

 and is not continued on the sternopleura ; two contiguous hypopleural spots. 

 Suture broadly interrupted in the middle. Scutellum entirely yellow, with a narrow 

 brown band at base ; mesophragma reddish, w^ithout black markings. All the 

 bristles are black ; exterior scapulars long and strong, interior very thin, like yellow 

 hairs ; it seems that the anterior notopleural is w^anting, like the anterior supra-alar ; 

 mesopleural thin ; pteropleural indicated only by a yellowish hair ; scutellum with 

 only an apical pair of strong bristles. Halteres whitish. Abdomen club-shaped, 

 rather narrow at base, but not in the shape of a cylindrical stalk ; it is clothed with 

 rather long whitish pubescence, which becomes yellowish and sericeous on the 

 posterior segments, and is very long at the sides of the first two segments ; it is 

 punctulate like the thorax ; first and second segment entirely reddish, the second 

 with a broad yellow hind border ; third segment with black cilia at the sides, dark 

 red, with a broad black basal band, which does not reach the sides ; fourth reddish, 

 becoming yellowish towards the hind border ; fifth red in the middle, black at the 

 base, yellowish behind, with the two foveiform patches rather distinct. Venter 

 reddish, pale yellowish before the end of the second sternite, the last two sternites 

 with a broad black middle spot, the penultimate being smaller ; genitalia small, 

 reddish, retracted. Legs entirely reddish, but the basal half of the hind femora and 

 all the tarsi (except the end) pale yellowish or whitish ; the short pubescence is pale 

 yellowish ; the terminal spur of the middle tibiae is long and black. Wings with a 

 yellowish tinge, which becomes more pronounced along the fore border above the 

 third vein, but the second basal cell is almost hyaline and the alula is quite vitreous ; 

 no distinct supernumerary axillary lobe ; the blackish brown spot is almost circular 

 and extends from the end of the second vein to the upper corner of the discoidal cell 

 and a little before the middle of the second posterior cell ; the anal cell is distinctly 

 yellow at the base and has a diffused dark spot at the end. Middle cross-vein very 

 long and S-shaped ; last section of third vein bent backwards before its middle ; 

 last section of fourth vein short and gently curved. 



Type (^ (British Museum) a single specimen from Dehra Dun, 16. vii. 1912, on grass 

 {Prof. A. D. Imms). 



22. Mellesis brachycera, sp. nov. 



A rather aberrant species, apparently alUed to the preceding, but distinguished 

 from it and from all the others on account of the short basal joints of the antennae, 

 which are shaped almost as in Bactrocera, while the chaetotaxy is that of Dacus, s. dr. 



$. Length of body, 8 mm. 



