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than the last four abdominal segments taken together, of the 

 same color with the abdomen, or somewhat more reddish-yellow, 

 black at the extreme tip only, with scattered, blackish pile. Feet 

 dark clay-yellow. Wings rather large ; their picture consists, 

 besides the yellowish-brown posterior corner, of four oblique yel- 

 lowish-brown crossbands, with dark-brown borders ; the brown 

 coloring which fills the posterior corner is separated from the 

 first band on the posterior half of the wing only, and that by an 

 oblique hyaline half band, lying in the third posterior cell, but 

 which does not reach the Boot of this cell; a small, square hyaline 

 spot near the humeral crossvein indicates the separation of the 

 yellowish-brown coloring of the base of the wing from the first 

 crossband; the first and second crossbands are completely coales- 

 cent before the third longitudinal vein ; beyond this vein, they 

 are separated by a hyaline, very oblique band, which begins 

 below the basis of the comparatively long stigma and ends at the 

 tip of the fifth vein ; the second and third brown bands are 

 separated by a narrow hyaline band, which crosses the whole 

 breadth of the wing, but is almost interrupted upon the second 

 longitudinal vein ; the third and fourth brown bands, the latter 

 of which runs along the apex of the wing, are entirely coalescent 

 upon their anterior portion; their posterior portion is separated 

 by a narrow, hyaline, half band, which does not reach the third 

 longitudinal vein ; upon the last section of the anterior margin 

 the brown coloring is somewhat spotted and shows here and there 

 a very small pale drop. The venation shows the following pecu- 

 liarities ; stigma rather long, third and fourth longitudinal veins 

 curved backwards towards their end ; the very approximate 

 crossveins are very oblique and have their posterior ends nearer 

 to the apex of the wing than the anterior ends ; the discal cell is 

 very much contracted towards the basis, and very much dilated 

 towards the end ; the posterior angle of the anal cell is drawn 

 out in a sharp point ; the third vein has scattered bristles upon 

 nearly its whole extent. 



Hob. South Carolina (Zimmerman ; Mus. Berol.). 

 Observation 1. In the synonymy, I have doubtfully quoted 

 Tephritis quadrifasciata Macq. from Georgia. It is true that 

 Trypeta sarcinata is not recognizable in Macquart's description; 

 and if Macquart's figures had the least claim to faithfulness, the 

 synonymy of these two species would be out of question. But 



