DESCRIPTION OP THE SPECIES. 263 



wings, is convincing enough to remove all doubt as to its loca- 

 tion in the genus (Edaspis. 



23. T. cinglllata Lw. $ 9. (Tab. X, f. 11.) Nigra, capite pedi- 

 busque luteis, thoracis margine lateral! scutelloque praeter margines 

 laterales et anticum dilute flavis, margine postico segmentorum abdo- 

 uiinalium singulorum albido ; alse hyalinse, macul parvS, apicis fas- 

 ciisque quatuor fusco-nigris, harum duabus primis postice abbreviatis et 

 liberis, duabus ultimis integris et antice conjuuctis. 



Black, head and feet clay -yellow; lateral border of the thorax and the 

 scutelluin, the latter with the exception of the anterior and lateral 

 border, light yellow ; abdominal segments whitish on the posterior 

 border ; wings hyaline ; a small spot upon the apex and four crossbands 

 brownish-black ; the first two bands abbreviated posteriorly and not 

 connected ; the two posterior bands are entire and connected on the 

 anterior margin. Long. corp. 0.14 0.22; long. al. 0.15 0.20. 



SYN. Trypeta cingulata LOEW, Monogr. I, 76. Tab. II, f. 11. 



Hob. Middle States; Long Branch, N. J., in July (Osten- 

 Sacken). 



Observation. The description given by me in the first part of 

 these Monographs will easily help to identify this species. I 

 have nothing to add to it, but must call attention to the great 

 variation in the size of different specimens. The smallest ones 

 which I possess, are without exception males. T. cingulata is 

 closely allied to the European species of Bhagoletis, especially to 

 H. flavicincta Loew ; its systematic location is, therefore, not 

 doubtful. 



24. T. tabellaria FITCH. 9. Atra, capite, trochanteribus, tibiis 

 tarsisque dilute luteis, thoracis margine laterali scutelloque prseter 

 margines laterales albis ; segmentorum abdominalium singulorum mar- 

 gine postico exalbido ; alae pure hyalinae, fasciis quatuor latis nigris, 

 duabus primis postice, duabus ultimis antice cohaerentibus. 



Deep black; head, second joint of the coxae, tibiae, and tarsi yellow; 

 lateral border of the thorax and scutellum, with the exception of the 

 anterior and the lateral borders, white ; the posterior borders of the 

 abdominal segments whitish ; wings of a pure hyaline, with four broad, 

 black crossbands, of which the first two are connected at the posterior, 

 the last two at the anterior margin. Long. corp. 0.14 0.15 ; long. al. 

 0.140.15. 



SYN. Tepliritis tabellaria FITCH, First Report, p. 66. 



