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ENTOMOLOGICAL PROGRAM. 



Preliminary Notes on the Genus Tephritis in Hawaii 

 (Diptera). 



BY E. H. BRYAN, JR. 



The Fauna Hawaiiensis records three species of Tephritis in 

 Hawaii. Of these T. crassipcs had been described as Trypeta 

 crassipes by Thomson in KongHg-a Svenska Fregatten Eu- 

 genics Resa Omkring Jorden, part 11, page 583, the Zoological 

 results of the voyage of the Frigate I'Eugenie around the world 

 in 1851-1853. Grimshaw placed this in the genus Tephritis and 

 added the two new species, T. linipidapex and T. cratcricola. 



February 3, 1910, Mr. Terry, who had done some very 

 valuable work on Hawaiian Diptera, exhibited specimens and 

 read a note on "A New Oahuan Trypetid, Tephritis dubaiitiae," 

 before the Hawaiian Entomological Society. (See Proceedings, 

 H:147, 1912.) This paper was not published at the time, and 

 it, with many other valuable notes, became lost at the time of 

 Mr. Terry's sudden death on November 7, 1911. His specimens, 

 however, have been preserved, and we have endeavored to rede- 

 scribe these, using the original name of Tephritis ditbautiae. 



In 1906 a specimen of Tephritis, totally distinct from any 

 of these four, was captured in Palolo Valley, the collector be- 

 ing unknown. In 1912 Mr. Swezey added two more specimens, 

 one in Alarch from Kaumuahona and one in September from 

 Pacific Heights on Ditbautia. On November 17. 1918, Mr. 

 Swezey bred three more specimens from Dubaittia taken on 

 Kaumuahona. Although these specimens are not identical in 

 wing pattern, yet in our mind they are similar enough to con- 

 stitute a single species, which we here describe as Tephritis 

 sweaeyi. Another specimen taken August 29, 1918, by Mr. 

 Swezey on Haleakala is similar, but cannot be placed in the 

 same species. All these specimens are characterized by very 

 dark fuscous wings, bearing an irregular number and arrange- 

 ment of hyaline spots. 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, IV, No. 3, September, 1921. 



