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bending before reaching there, in order to reunite at the middle of the band ; 

 between it and the costal band there is a little patch of the same colour more 

 bruised and mottled. 



Abdomen of a very bright yellow, with the base and posterior edge of the 

 iirst segment and the posterior half of the third segment silvery white, pro- 

 duced by a very fine silvery pubescence. Legs, bright yellow, hairy ; the 

 forelegs fringed with fine hairs, yellow, almost orange. 



In the female the vertex is pale yellow, slightly brighter than the front 

 part of the head ; the extremities of two slight tubercles, which are near 

 the eyes, carry a strong spiny-black bristle, resembling the other stout bristles 

 on the head in both sexes. The wings resemble those of the male, but have 

 the brown blotches more pronounced. 



Length Male, 5 to 6 mm. ; female, 6-7 mm. 



Habitat Mauritius. 



There is a specimen of a male under the name of Ceratitis catoirei in. the 

 Verrall Collection determined by Bigot that I examined, which has the 

 abdomen more silvery than G. capitata, and has the spatulate tipped bristles 

 on the forehead well developed, but the terminal tips, instead of being 

 diamond-shape, were truncate at the tips. 



Habitat Isles Bourbon and Mauritius. 



This species was first collected by Mr. Cattoire on the Isle de France 

 (Mauritius). He sent them to several entomologists and to W. S. Macleay, 

 who confounded them with the species he described as G. citriperda. 

 Guerin-Meneville, however, obtained several specimens, and among them 

 some males, which decided him that it was a distinct species, so he named it 

 after the discoverer. Macleay spells the name Cattoire, but Guerin spells it 

 Catoire. 



Ceratitis (?) penicillata, Bigot. 

 (Annals Soc. Ent., France, Vol. XL., p. 308, 1891.) 



" Length, 4 mm. Male. Antennae incomplete." 



Notwithstanding the mutilation of the antennae and the absence, probably 

 accidental, of the frontal appendages, the face and other characters seem to 

 demonstrate that this insect is certainly a Ceratitis, so that it seems best 

 to consider it the type of a new species. 



Basal segments of the antennae pale red (the third wanting), face front and 

 cheeks whitish ; a large brown quadrangular spot on the epistome. Thorax 

 whitish-grey, marked with four indistinct brownish lines ; scutellum whitish, 

 marked at the posterior edge with three black shining points ; abdomen 

 greyish-white with the base of the segments blackish, halteres whitish. 

 The first two pair of legs yellowish-white, the apex of the thighs of the fore- 

 legs brown, with the thighs on the upper surface clothed with some incurved 

 black bristles in the second pairof legs, the middle of the thighs, and the extrem- 

 ity of the tibiae lightly stained with brown ; the hind legs of the same colour as 

 the middle legs, but have the tibiae fringed inwardly to the extremity with 

 some long stiff black bristles a little flattened and dense. The wings are 

 whitish, with some black points showing at the base, and five others 

 disposed along the fourth and fifth longitudinal nervures, the wings further 

 ornamented with four large reddish transverse bands, the first near to the 

 base, the second through the middle, the third longitudinal to the outer edge 

 and joining the second, to touch the other part, the tip of the wing ; the 

 fourth and last placed on the second transverse nervure and extending to the 

 edge, until a little beyond the nervure. 



