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Ceratitis rosa, Karsch. 

 (Entomologische Nachrichten, Vol. XIII, p. 22, 1887.) 



" Shining black, with brownish-yellow hairs ; thorax with two shining 

 black spots on the subdorsal sides ; the sides of the sternum yellow ; 

 scutellum shining black, transversal line on the base and four longitudinal 

 lines dull orange yellow, with transverse lines on the abdomen ; with shining 

 black spot on the dull yellow face, antennae and legs yellow, the tibia of the 

 mid legs clothed with fine bluish-black scale-like hairs along the edges." 



Length, 5 mm. Habitat Delagoa Bay, Africa. 



At Mr. G. H. Verrall's, when examining the Bigot Collection, I found 

 one specimen under this name which had the body much lighter coloured 

 than in C. capifata, the wings much more spotted along the costal margin, 

 the black coloration on the scutellum forming four black spots. It was 

 labelled Natal, South Africa, and appeared to be distinct from C. rubivora 

 of Coquillet. 



Ceratitis striata, n. sp. 

 (PL V., fig. 17.) 



Length, 5 to 6 mm. General colour pale yellow to greyish, with the upper 

 surface of tho thorax variegated with black. Wings hyaline, marked with 

 fine black lines and spots on the basal portion, with a broad parallel dull 

 yellow band along the costa from the apex of the black markings, and 

 curving well round tho apex of the wing ; from this run two broad and one 

 narrow irrpgular transverse bands crossing the wing, so that with the curve 

 of the tip it appears to have four ( rans verse bars ; both the parallel stripe and 

 transverse bands slightly clouded with fuscous. Head of male without the 

 curious spatulate tipped hairs of C. capitata, eyes dark, face unspotted but 

 lightly marked with brown above the antennae, a dark spot on the summit, 

 clothed with coarse scattered black bristles. Thorax elongate, stained with 

 chestnut brown in front on dorsal surface, the rest greyish, with the shining 

 black areas not so compact as in C. capitata, and forming three very irregular 

 black parallel bars, the outer ones thickest : the scutellum shining black, 

 slightly mottled behind, and below it on the apex of the thorax black ; the 

 whole of the thor.ix lightly clothed with stout black bristles, of which two 

 long ones spring out from the hind edge of the scutellum ; the legs pale 

 yellow, with stout spine-like hairs on the femora and rows of very fine short 

 spines down the angles of the tibiae. Abdomen broadly rounded in the male, 

 that of the fern-vis produced into a long pointed sheath at the anal segment ; 

 greyish, very indistinctly banded, covered with fine hairs, with a few 

 scattered bristles, forming a tuft of four or five at the tip. Habitat. 

 Peradenyia Gardens, Ceylon. 



When examining the insect collections of Mr. E. E. Green, Government 

 Entomologist at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Peradenyia, I came across a 

 series of fruit-flies with No. 1,466 attached to them, and on Mr. West 

 turning up the records we found the following note under this number: 

 <( Bred from the decaying shoots of bamboo, Peradenyia, 1903." There was 

 a fine series of both male and female specimens, though somewhat mouldy. 



I propose the name sfriata on account of the black markings on the thorax 

 forming irregular band", and also the markings on the basal portion of the 

 wings being more striate than spotted. 



