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color to thorax, with longer yellowish pile which is restricted to the 

 posterior half and the sides of the segments; the anterior portions are 

 covered with short bristly black pile; longer hairs of last segment 

 black; last segment in male nearly three times as long as penultimate, 

 in the female only slightly longer. Ovipositor longer than last two 

 segments, red, blackish at base and tip. Legs brown. Wings pro- 

 portionately long, hardly differing in design of picture ixom fi/ia/is; 

 the clear spots of the posterior basal portion are more confluent. 



Length of male, 4.5 mm.; of female, 5.5 mm. 



Two males and three females, state of Washington (July 16), Mon- 

 tana (Morrison), and Kern county, California. 



Tephritis albiceps Loew. 



Three specimens. White Mountains (Willistonj and Canada. 



Tephritis picturata n. sp. 



Male and female. Head yellowish. Front moderately wide 

 scarcely narrowed anteriorly, with sparse whitish pile and brown 

 bristles. Antennae more saturate yellow, not reaching the oral 

 margin; anterior corner of third joint, rounded. Oral border pro- 

 jecting. Proboscis short-geniculate, flaps broad. Palpi pale, with 

 white pile. Cheeks exceedingly narrow. Occiput with two blackish 

 oblong spots above. Bristles of posterior orbits and vertex whitish. 

 Thorax densely dusted with yellow; hairs pale; bristles dark, the 

 dorsal pair near the suture. Ground color of dorsum black, of sides 

 yellow. Scutellum yellow, with four bristles. Metathorax black. 

 -Color of abdomen variable reddish or blackish, in the latter case 

 with light colored hind margins of segments; pile short, appressed, 

 reddish. Ovipositor yellowish-red, narrowly black at tip, flattened 

 and as long as last two abdominal segments. Legs yellow. Wings 

 covered with a yellowish and blackish reticulation. Its darkest por- 

 tions are near the end of the second vein, and two black spots in 

 stigma, one on tip of auxiliary vein and the other near tip of first 

 vein; the remainder of the stigma is yellow; along veins picture 

 mostly yellowish, while surrounding clear drops, blackish prevails; 

 just j)ast tip of second vein is the largest hyaline spot of the reticu- 

 lation, extending to third vein; and almost touching it distally is a 

 smaller one which does not reach second vein; a distinct clear drop 

 occurs at end of second vein; a clear drop on each side of anterior 

 cross vein; the third and fourth veins each pass between two con- 

 nected drops just before they reach the costa; posterior half of wing 

 with numerous large and small drops. 



Length, 4 mm. 



