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sub-costal cell. Covered with a variable number and arrangement of white 

 spots, the most constant being as follows: Marginal cell with 6-8 small 

 white spots near costa; 1st submarginal cell with 4-6 small spots in basal 

 half and two at apex near costa; 2nd posterior cell lighter fuscous with 

 6-8 white spots; discal cell with 12-15 white spots of various sizes; 3rd 

 posterior cell with 10-14 large white spots, roundish; anal and axillary 

 cells, which are separated by a short 6th vein, each with 4 large white 

 spots on a light fuscous field. 



Habitat : — Oahu : Palolo, Olympus, Kaumuahona, and Pa- 

 cific Heights (Swezey). The larvae are found singly in 

 terminal buds of Dubaiitia. 



Tephritis (Trypeta) crassipes Thomson.* 



Dark fuscous, bluish gray, head with antennae and feet yellow, wings 

 white, moderately reticulated with fuscous, with 2 large costal spots of 

 blackish-brown including a white spot on the costa, and sending out 2 

 lateral rays toward the apex of the wing. 



Habitat : — Honolulu. 



The ornamentation of the wings similar to T. leontodontis, with the 

 anal cell not at all angulated beneath; scutellum with 2 bristles, front 

 on both sides with a row of 5 bristles, usually distinct. Head as broad 

 as thorax, pale yellow-brown, occiput almost truncate, red-brown over 

 the middle; front a little longer than broad, with 5 bristles on both 

 sides, the epistoma short, furrows of the antennae parallel, sufficiently 

 discrete; peristome somewhat rounded, proboscis short, never jointed, pale; 

 eyes rather large, descending below, frontal orbit directed anteriorly, 

 almost converging, facial ones a little diverging. Antennae short, some- 

 what deflected, bases almost contiguous, pale yellow-brown, 3rd Joint 

 rounded, apical angle slightly obtuse. Thorax fuscous, humeri paler, 

 densely clothed with bluish gray, plum colored pubescence; a pair of 

 dorsal bristles placed a little before the middle; scutellum somewhat 

 acute at the apex with 2 bristles. 



Wings somewhat hyaline, partly reticulated ; base dotted and streaked 

 with 5-6 brown lines; costal spot fuscous, including a white spot at the 

 apex of the sub-costal cell; obliquely below are 5 or 6 white spots. The 

 superior spots are small, sometimes obsoletely noticeable. The posterior 

 spot somewhat round, dark fuscous, including a little spot adhering to 

 the border at the apical marginal branch. Anterior band and four larger 

 costal spots sending out 2 broad diverging branches toward the apex, 

 including a white spot and sending below two entire branches. Infusca- 

 tion of discal transverse nerve quite broad, 2 whitish spots below cohering 

 with the posterior spot and the common transverse vein. Costal abscission 



* Translation from Eugenies Eesa, Part II, p. 583, 1868. 



