FRUIT FLIES OF GENUS TOMOPLAGIA — ^ACZEL 381 



spots; fifth tergite usually with pair of dark lateral spots variable in 

 size and in color from blurred yellowish brown small dots to long-oval 

 black spots as large as that on sixth tergite {tucumana Blanchard in 

 litt.) but sometimes entirely absent; on fourth tergite a pair of lateral 

 dark spots or dots also rarely present, yellowish brown to blackish 

 bro^vn {hosqi Blanchard in litt.). Fifth tergite approximately as long 

 (0.34 (0.43) mm.) as sixth (0.38 (0.43) mm.). 



Ovipositor sheath slightly flattened dorsoventrally (at base, in 

 profile 0.57 (0.45) mm. high), shining testaceous yellow and covered 

 with golden shining appressed brown hairs, with apex usually darker 

 (in hosqi brown); slightly shorter (0.70 (0.91) mm.) than basally wide 

 (0.82 (1.18) mm.) and at apex 0.48 (0.57) mm. wide. Median part of 

 ovipositor (rasper) darker in color than sheath, with unusually long 

 rasper-tooth; apical part subshining, translucent, testaceous yellow 

 from wide-oval base tapering into a long and narrow apical region, 

 with blunt apex in dorsal aspect, with acute tip in lateral aspect. 



Type: In Dresden Museum. 



Type locality: Rosalinda, Rio Urumbaba, Peru. 



Specimens examined: Argentina: Corrientes, San Roque, 299, 

 February 1920, J. Bosq, "T. phaedra Hendel, det. E. E. Blanchard" 

 and "T. hosqi n. sp., det E. E. Blanchard," and Tucuman, Tucuman, 9, 

 K. J. Hay ward, *'T. tucumana n. sp. det. E. E. Blanchard" (all in 

 coll. Blanchard); Santa F6, Piquete, cf, January 4, 1928, Bridarolli 

 (in Colegio Maximo de San Jose, San Miguel), and Santa Fe, Villa 

 Ana, 2 cf cf , February 1-18, 1946, Hayward and Willink, Misiones, 

 Iguazu, 9, January 30-March 13, 1945, Hayward, Willink and Golbach 

 (allinFML). 



Dr. Hayward (1942) reared this species, together with Anastrepha 

 species, from sweet orange and guava fruits in Tucumdn. 



Tomoplagia pleuralis Hendel 



Figures 100,/,sr; 102, /i; Plate 25, figure 22 



Tomoplagia pleuralis Hendel, 1914, p. 39. 



The writer examined some Argentine specimens and an Ecuadorian 

 speciman of a species which traces to pleuralis in Hendel's key to the 

 species of Tomoplagia but did not wholly agree with the original 

 description. A typical male from the U. S. National Museum, when 

 compared with the specimens in question, does not show any struc- 

 tural difference. Therefore it is very probable that the pleural 

 black spots of this species are variable in size. It differs from 

 allied species of the pleuralis-reimoseri group by the characters given 

 in the key (p. 329). The drawings and the first number of all meas- 

 ures in the redescription of the male belong to the t3rpical Peruvian 

 specimen, and the second numbers to the smaller Ecuadorian 

 specimen. 



