FRUIT FLIES OF GENUS TOMOPLAGIA — ^ACZEL 



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Cephalic bristles brownish yellow, except for the golden shining 

 brown genal bristle. The three pairs of incurved lower orbital bristles 

 are subequal in length and slightly longer than the posterior pair of 

 recurved upper orbital bristles (ors); anterior pair of ors subequal to 

 outer vertical and ocellar bristles, which are slightly longer than any 

 of these and slightly shorter than the inner vertical bristles. 



Thorax with scutellum 1.8 mm. long and 1.5 mm. wide, testaceous 

 yellow; mesonotum, except for the shining hind margin, evenly and 

 densely covered with pale yellow pruinosity and with short appressed 

 pale yellow hairs; there are no pruinose vittae. The usual pair of 

 nearly round black spots present, each one between prescutellar and 

 upper postalar bristles; a black dot behind (and beneath) wing base; 



Figure 91. — Tomoplagia brevipalpis: a. Lateral view of head; b, dorsal view of headj c, right 

 maxillary palpus, superior surface; d, dorsal view of epandrium. 



Pleura subshining except for mesopleura and sternopleura. Two 

 black spots on the pleura: a large one above hind coxa and a double 

 one on inferior part of ventral and dorsal pleurotergites. Scutellum 

 shining ochraceous yellow with some yellowish hairs on sides. Median 

 third of postscutellum pale brownish yellow, the lateral thirds black. 

 Mediotergite shining intensive testaceous yellow. 



Thoracic bristles brownish yellow; lower mesopleural bristles shorter 

 than the anterior pair; dorsocentral pair inserted approximately in 

 anterior third of distance between transverse suture and supra-alar 

 bristle {sa) and more widely placed than the prescutellar pair, which 

 stands in posterior third of distance between sa and upper postalar 

 bristles (in female almost halfway between these). Apical pair of 

 scutellar bristles convergent and crossed, considerably shorter than 

 basal pair. 



Wings with the general pattern of the genus and with intensive 

 yellow oblique bands; there is a small hyaline dot at tip of second 



