174 KANSAS UNIVERSnV (QUARTERLY. 



Nine specimens, Florida (Frazar). 



Easily separated on account of the bicolorous reticulation of the 

 wings. 



Tephritis obscuripennis n. sp. (PI. \11, f. 8.) 



Male. Black.- — Head yellow; front and antennae more saturate. 

 Front very broad, bristles black. Antennae short, third joint rounded 

 anteriorly. Face with a whitish bloom, perpendicular, somewhat 

 excavated. Oral opening moderately large, a little longer than wide, 

 and driwn up anteriorly. Cheeks rather wide. Occiput black. 

 Thorax with golden pile and black bristles; humeral callosities- 

 yellowish. Scutellum yellow at ajjex. Pile of abdomen yellow with 

 a few black hairs: a light j)ollinose stripe in the middle; on the sides, 

 pollen more brown: last segment as long as two preceding segments 

 together. Legs yellow, femora except the tip black. Wings rather 

 long, only moderately narrow, almost covered with a brown design 

 which is less reticulate than in related species; the stigma has a 

 hyaline spot near the tij) of first vein: third vein bare; posterior 

 cross vein slightly obliipie. 



