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Euaresta bellula n. sp. 



Male and female. Head yellow; front with a greenish tinge and 

 antennae more ferruginous; frontal bristles reddish. Antennae nearly 

 reaching anterior border of mouth; third joint broad. Face descend- 

 ing straight to the oral margin which projects slightly. Oral opening 

 large. Cheeks very narrow. Thorax black, thickly (.lusted with 

 yellowish grey, yellow pilose. Scutellum yellowish at tip, with four 

 bristles. Metanotum black, shining through the greyish pollen. 

 Abdomen reddish-brown, sometimes darker; blackish at tip, shining, 

 with fine yellowish pile, especially on hind borders of segments. 

 Ovipositor black, longer than the last two segments, with very small 

 light hairs. I-egs yellow, front femora of male swollen. Wings 

 strikingh narrow; third \ein without bristles, at the utmost a few 

 small ones on prefurca; posterior cross vein oblique; the pattern of 

 the dark brown picture is similar to that of E. incxicixna Wied. (Loew, 

 Monogr. Ill, p. ;, 17, PI. X. f. 28): it differs from E. bclla (PI. VI, 

 f. 8) in that the clear drop which in the later species lies above the 

 small cross vein, is here a part of the hyaline space which arises uj^on 

 the costa at the end of the first vein; the fifth and si.xth rays of ln-lla 

 are joined in the present s])ecies to form one broad ray filling up the 

 tip of the marginal cell. The wings are sufficiently distinguished 

 from those of vicxicana by the absence of any clear drop and the 

 presence of a deep colored callosity in the first posterior cell; by the 

 large size of the drop in the first basal cell, coequal in its diameter 

 with the width of the cell; by the presence of another very large drop 

 in the upper distal corner of the discal cell; and by a pattern rather 

 more radiate than guttate in the third posterior cell. 



Length, 2.5 to ,^ mm. 



Three males and one female, Arizona (Morrison). 



Tephritis aflBnis n sp. (I'l. Nil, f. 12.) 



Male anil female. \'ery nearly related to T. finalis Loew (Monogr. 

 Ill, p. 290, PI. XI. f. 4) but differs in the third vein being bristly, in 

 the great length of the last abdominal segment of the male, in the 

 l)resence of black pile on the anterior half of abdominal segments, 

 and in shape of the wings which are more obtuse at the tip and with 

 sides more nearly parallel, as compared with Loew's figure (I. c. ). — 

 Head yellowish; front, antennae and palpi more saturate, though the 

 former is narrowly whitish on the sides. Face descending straight to 

 the somewhat projecting oral edge; mouth opening large. Thorax 

 blackish, on the humeral and ante-alar callosities yellow; dusted with 

 yellowish grey and with short light colored pile. Scutellum with four 

 black bristles; on the apex broadly yellowish. Abdomen similar in 



