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stout black bristles on the head and thorax are much more numerous, and 

 the wings are somewhat different, as will be seen on comparing the drawings 

 on plate 5. 



The curious spatulate face appendages are not present in the male of this 

 species. 



From the description and figures given by Fuller in his First Report of 

 the Government Entomologist of Natal, 1899-1900, page 70, and Second 

 Report, 1901, page 20, it is evident that this is the common species in Natal, 

 though in his report it is identified as Ceratitis corysa, Walker. According 

 to Von Roder the species described by Walker as Trypeta cosyra is identical 

 with our Ceratitis capitata, so that Coquillet's name will stand. Fuller says : 

 "This insect ranks a good first among fruit-pests of Natal. It is impossible 

 to say whether it is an introduction into the country or no^. It has been 

 known upon the coast belt as far back, I believe, as old colonists can 

 remember, and is simply credited by them with being worse nowadays than 

 then. It is only during the last twenty to thirty years, however, that it has 

 been known at Maritzburg. It ranges up the coast about 150 miles, and is 

 said to be spreading all over the colony. It infests all kinds of cultivated 

 fruits, and several native wild fruits." 



NOTE. Lounsbury since tells me that he does not consider these species 

 identical ; and also that while (7. rubivora is only bred from blackberries, 

 C. corysa infests all fruits. 



Cera tat is lycii, Coquillet. 



(Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, Vol. XXIV, p. 30, 

 No. 1,243, 1901.) 



" Head yellow, a black spot above the neck, sending a branch to each eye, 

 a black spot in the middle of upper part of face ; antennae yellow, three- 

 fourths as long as the face, proboscis brown, the palpi yellow, body black, 

 mesonotum opaque greyish pruinose, the margin produced inward at the 

 front and hind angles, and in the middle in front, also a pair of round dots 

 behind the suture, polished ; a spot on the humerus uniting with a broad 

 stripe on upper edge of pleura, also a sinuous, interrupted line at base of 

 scutellum, light yellowish ; abdomen polished, the posterior portion of the 

 first and third segments opaque, whitish pruinose, remainder of third 

 segment opaque, brownish pruinose ; ovipositor flat beneath, convex above, 

 the basal portion as long as the last two abdominal segments ; wings hyaline, a 

 broad brown cross-band in a line with humeral cross- vein, followed by three or 

 four longitudinal brown streaks and about nine brown dots, a second brown 

 cross-band extends from beyond apex of auxiliary vein to apex of last vein, 

 at the costa united with a broad brown stripe that extends along the costa 

 to midway between apices of third and fourth veins, filling the costal 

 margin to the third vein, and near middle of last section of the latter, sending 

 a branch obliquely to the wing margin below apex of fourth vein ; the second 

 cross-band also sends a branch from the small cross-vein obliquely to the apex 

 of fifth vein, covering the hind cross-vein ; the costal margin is very narrowly 

 hyaline between apices of the first and third veins, except a pair of brown 

 dots between apices of first and second veins ; extreme base of wings 

 yellowish; legs, including the front coxa?, yellow. Length, 4 mm." Type 

 in the United States National Museum (No. 5,791). Described from 

 specimens from Cape Colony, South Africa. 



