298 NORTH AMERICAN TRYPETINA. 



Whitish-gray, head and feet yellow, femora with a black streak, abdomen 

 with two rows of black dots, wings with a sparse reticulation, almost 

 reduced to spots; the stigma includes a hyaline drop; third longitudi- 

 nal vein not bristly ; oral edge moderately produced, proboscis short, 

 geniculate ; the deep black ovipositor is as long as the last two abdo- 

 minal segments taken together. Long. corp. 0.12 ; long. al. 0.13. 



SYN. Trypeta clathrata LOEW, Monographs, etc., I, p. 80. Tab. II, f. 15. 



Hob. Middle States (Osten-Sacken). 



Observation. In accordance with what has been said in the 

 second observation to T. angustipennis, T. clathrata belongs 

 to the genus Tephritis. Should the distribution adopted by me 

 in my Monograph of the European TrypeMdse be strictly applied 

 to this species, it would, on account of the distinctly geniculate 

 proboscis with but moderately prolonged flaps, be referred to the 

 genus Oxyna; and it agrees very well with a number of Euro- 

 pean species, placed in that genus. 



46. T. geminata Lw. 9. (Tab. XI, f. 1.) Ex luteo-cinerea, capite, 

 thoracis margine laterali, scutello, abdominis dimidio basali, feraorum 

 apice, tibiis tarsisque flavis, pleuris, metanoto, abdominis maculis et 

 apice, terebra femoribusque ex nigro fuscis ; alae prseter basim fuscse, 

 limpido-guttatse, guttulis disci minutis et raris, guttis marginis postici 

 niajoribus, anguli axillaris confertioribus, maculis denique duabus 

 costalibus trigonis limpidis, vena longitudinal! tertia setosa. 



Yellowish-gray ; head, lateral margin of the thorax, scutellum, anterior 

 half of the abdomen, tip of the femora, tibiae, and tarsi, yellow ; pleurae, 

 metauotum, spots and posterior part of the abdomen, ovipositor, and 

 femora blackish-brown ; wings, with the exception of the basis, brown, 

 with pale drops, which are small and scattered in the middle, larger 

 upon the posterior margin, more dense upon the posterior angle; upon 

 the anterior margin there are two triangular hyaline spots ; the third 

 longitudinal vein is bristly. Long. corp. 0.17; long. al. 0.20. 



SVN. Trypeta geminata LOEW, Dipt. Am. Sept. Cent. II, 75. 



Head pale yellow, only a large spot upon the occiput blackish- 

 brown ; front rather broad ; the ordinary bristles pale brownish 

 or almost yellowish. Antennae dark yellow; the short pile upon 

 the second antennal joint pale yellowish ; a single more elongate 

 hair is black ; the anterior corner of the third joint is rather 

 sharp. Face rather concave and the anterior corner of the mouth 

 rather conspicuously projecting. Cheeks narrow. Oral opening 

 large, rounded; palpi and proboscis short, not reaching beyond 



