50 ORANGE FLY. 



Orange Fly (" Trypeta " Fly, S. A.). 



The " Orange Fly " has long been well known as 

 causing great amount of damage to oranges, and like- 

 wise as attacking some other kinds of fruit, including 

 peaches. 



The insect appears to be very widely distributed, as it 

 is stated by various observers and writers, from the time 

 of Latreille and MacLeay onwards, to be found in the 

 Azores, the Cape de Verd Islands, Madeira, Mauritius, 

 and countries on the Indian Ocean, and if, as considered 

 by Dr. Schiner,* the only European kind (the Ceratitis 

 Hispanica, Breme) , brought from Andalusia by M.Eambur 

 and described by the Marquis de Breme in the Annals of 

 the French Entomological Society) is identical with the 

 C. citriperda of MacLeay, this adds the South of Europe 

 to its geographical range. 



FIG. 22. Ceratitis citriperda, Fly, magnified, showing the form of the 

 head filaments. Outline, natural size. 



On the 5th of July, 1888, Mr. J. B. Hellier wrote to 

 me from Grahamstown, S. Africa, regarding the attacks 

 of this very destructive fruit fly as follows : 



* "Die einige europaische Art, Ceratitis hispanica, Breme ('Ann. dc 

 la Soc. Entom. de France,' I. ii. 183, Tfl. 7, 1. 15) durfte mit Trypeta 

 capitata, Wiedem., oder Ceratitis citriperda, MacLeay, identisch sein, 

 obwohl die Wiedemann'scihe Art aus Isle de France, und den Azoreu 

 stammt." ' Fauna Austriaca, Die Fliegen,' von J. Rudolph Schiner, 

 Pt. II., p. 174. 



