374 Professor Williston on the 



dish. Basal joints of the antenna) blackish ; third joint brownish- 

 red ; arista slender, black. Face yellow, somewhat blackish in the 

 depression ; the sides above, running obliquely to the root of the 

 antennae, shining black. The yellow of the face continues back 

 horizontally at the lower margin of the eye ; the occiput is black, 

 except a yellow spot back of the middle of each eye. Mesonotura 

 opaque black, with two light, greyish-yellowish, pollinose stripes. 

 Scutellum opaque black, with a broad yellow stripe in the middle. 

 Pleurje opaque black, more or less yellowish-dusted ; along the 

 dorsopleural suture a yellow stripe, as though continuous with the 

 yellow spot of the sides of the occiput; lower portion of the pleura3 

 in front yellow ; a rounded process in front of the halteres yellow. 

 Abdomen black, not at all shining; ovipositor cylindrical, yellowish. 

 Coxa3 and legs yellow, the tarsi somewhat inf uscated ; fi'ont femora 

 for the whole length below, and the four posterior femora distally, 

 spinose. Wings strongly tinged with brownish-yellowish ; first 

 posterior cell open. Length G mm. 

 One specimen. St. Vincent. 



ORTALID^. 



EUXESTA. 



Loew, Berl. Ent. Zeit., v., 385, 1867. 

 1. Euxesta stigmatias. (PI. XII., fig. 127, wing.) 



Euxesta stigmatias, Loew, Berl. Ent. Zeit., xi., 310, 

 pi. ii., fig. 18; Monogr., iii., 163, pi. ix., 

 fig. 1 7. — Cuba, Brazil. 



Numerous specimens agreeing with the description. 

 The hind metatarsi are, for the most part, yellow. 



2. Euxesta annome. 



Musca annonse, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., iv., 358. 

 Tephritis annonse, Fabricius, Syst. Antl., 320. 

 Ortulis annonse, Wiedemann, Auss. Zweifl. Ins., ii., 



463. — South America. 

 Urophura quadrivittata, Macquart, Hist. Nat. Dipt., ii., 



456,, 

 Euxesta annonse, Loew, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., xi., 305, 



pi. ii., fig. 13 ; Monogr., iii., 162, pi. ix., fig. 13. — 



Cuba. 

 Amethysa annonse, Schiner, Reise der Novara, 



Diptera, 283. — South America. 



