FRUIT FLIES OF GENUS TOMOPLAGIA — ^ACZEL 389 



dorsocentral pair inserted halfway between transverse suture and 

 (imaginary) transverse line between supraalar bristles; apical pair of 

 scutellar bristles nearly parallel, not crossed; ochi-aceous-yellow pleura 

 with tlu-ee black markings: a double one on inferior margin of ventral 

 and dorsal pleurotergites, a large one above hind coxa, and a triangular 

 spot, the largest, on upper hind part of sternopleura, divided in two by 

 a yellow horizontal line in which stands the sternopleural (st) bristle. 



Scutellum subshining, opaque, ochi-aceous yellow and covered, 

 except for center, with whitish, nearly erect hairs; postscutellum with 

 a pair of triangular brownish black lateral spots; mediotergite shining, 

 and intensively testaceous yellow. 



Coxae and legs testaceous yellow except two last tarsomeres of 

 mid and hind legs, which are yellowish brown; apical third of mid- 

 tibiae strongly dilated and anteroposteriorly compressed, with dorsal 

 bunch of about 20 strong and relatively short black bristles; bristles 

 and hairs of coxae and legs pale to testaceous yellow except antero- 

 dorsal row of rather closely spaced yellowish brown bristles. 



Halteres ochraceous yellow. 



Wing with the usual pattern of the genus; basal band does not 

 attain posterior wing margin; at apical process of anal cell forming a 

 very obliterate spot, transparent brownish yellow; costa not blackened 

 at humeral cross-vein or at tip of subcosta; stigma 2.2 times as long 

 as wide at base; first costal section 0.77, second 1.82, third 0.95, and 

 fourth 0.54 mm. long; first section of the fourth longitudinal vein 

 1.54, penultimate 0.52, and ultimate 1.82 mm. long; iuner cross-vein 

 (ta) 0.36, outer (tp) 0.77 mm. long, ta considerably shorter than dis- 

 tance between cross-veins, and slightly more oblique than tp; anal 

 cell with 0.43-mm.-long apical process 1.00 mm. long, apical process 

 shghtly shorter than rest of cell (whole cell is2.3 times as long as process). 



Preabdomen shining testaceous yellow, covered with brownish 

 yellow hairs, those on basal double tergite (1.42) paler; 2.1 nun. 

 long and 1.8 mm. wide. Second to fourth tergites each with a pair of 

 large lateral black spots, fifth with a pair of rather wide and slightly 

 curved lateral black vittae. The fifth tergite (0.45 mm. long) is about 

 1.3 times as long as fourth. Sternites and membrane testaceous 

 yellow except basal part, which is ochraceous yellow. Postabdomen 

 testaceous yellow. Epandrium wide-oval, in. the specimen examined 

 asymmetrical (very probably by the drying process) ; the two pairs of 

 gonapophyses shining black, posterior pair shorter than anterior, 

 thin and acute. 



Female: Unknown. 



Type: Holotype cf (USNM 61722), Brazil, near Sao Paulo, 1932, 

 KisHuk and Cooley No. 278. 



