FRUIT FLIES OF GENUS TOMOPLAGIA — ^ACZEL 341 



2,4 times as long as wide at base. First costal section 0.82, second 

 1.97, third 1.00 and fourth 0.68 mm. long; first section of fourth longi- 

 tudinal vein (Ml) 1.59, penultimate 0.45, and ultimate 1.54 mm. long; 

 inner cross-vein (ta) 0.43, outer (tp) 0.84 mm. long, ta about as long 

 as distance between cross- veins, and slightly more oblique than tp; 

 fifth longitudinal vein, which borders posteriorly discal cell, is but 

 slightly excurved. Anal cell long (1.11 mm.), its apical process (0.45 

 mm. long) slightly shorter than rest of cell; whole cell almost 2.5 times 

 as long as apical process itself. 



Preabdomen rather shining, clear brownish yellow, 2.9 mm. long 

 and 1.7 mm. wide, rather elongate; tergites sparsely covered with dark 

 brownish hairs; each of the third to fifth tergites with pair of relatively 

 small, brownish black lateral spots; pair on fourth tergite is largest and 

 pair on fifth is smallest. Fifth tergite 0.43 mm. long, nearly 1.5 times 

 as long as the fourth. 



Epandrium oval, yellow; two pairs of shining black gonapophyses, 

 the posterior pair acute and tiny. 



Female: Unknown. 



Types: Holotype cf , (USNM 61717), Panamd, El Cermeno, De- 

 cember 16, 1941, J. Zetek, 



Tomoplagia carrerai, new species 



Figures 96, a-c; 97, j; Plate 21, figure 9 



A very well defined Brazilian species of the pleuralis group, which is 

 readily distinguished from all known Tomoplagia in having black outer 

 vertical, outer occipital, and genal bristles, and black genal hairs, and 

 in having a pair of black spots on sides of the postalar callosity, be- 

 tween the lower and upper postalar bristles. 



Male: Length 5,1 (4,9) mm.; wing 4,5 (4,5) mm. long and 2.0 (1.8) 

 mm. wide, 2.3 (2.5) times as long as wide. 



Head ochraceous yellow, antennae and mouthparts testaceous yel- 

 low, excepting brown prementum and labellae. Head 0.77 (0.88) 

 mm. long, 1.38 (1.38) mm. wide, and 1.25 (1.18) mm. high. Frons 

 at vertex 0.73 (0.66), at anterior margin 0.57 (0.54) mm, wide, and in 

 the median line 0.54 (0.52) mm. long, hardly wider at anterior margin 

 than long; unicolored, only the genovertical plate with grayish tinge; 

 ocellar plate among the transparent yellow ocelli is blackish brown. 

 Upper half of occiput testaceous yellow. Oral margin of mesofacial 

 plate raised and prominent. 



Postpedicel oval, 0.27 (0,27) mm, long and 0.20 (0.18) mm, wide, 

 1.35 (1.5) times as long as wide. Seta bare and shining brownish 

 black, except the testaceous yellow basal third; nearly three times as 

 long as postpedicel. The eyes, in profile, 1,6 times as high as wide. 



Head bristles somewhat flattened, brownish yellow, except outer 

 vertical, outer occipital, and genal bristles, and hairs on genae, which 



