374 Professor Williston on the 



dish. Basal joints of the antennae blackish ; third joint brownish- 

 red ; arista slender, black. Face yellow, somewhat blackish in the 

 depression ; the sides above, running obliquely to the root of the 

 antennae, shining black. The yellow of the face continues back 

 horizontally at the lower margin of the eye ; the occiput is black, 

 except a yellow spot back of the middle of each eye. Mesonotum 

 opaque black, with two light, greyish-yellowish, pollinose stripes. 

 Scutellum opaque black, with a broad yellow stripe in the middle. 

 Pleurae opaque black, more or less yellowish-dusted ; along the 

 dorsopleural suture a yellow stripe, as though continuous with the 

 yellow spot of the sides of the occiput; lower portion of the pleurae 

 in front yellow ; a rounded process in front of the halteres yellow. 

 Abdomen black, not at all shining; ovipositor cylindrical, yellowish. 

 Coxse and legs yellow, the tarsi somewhat inf uscated ; front femora 

 for the whole length below, and the four posterior femora distally, 

 spinose. Wings strongly tinged with brownish-yellowish ; first 

 posterior cell open. Length 6 mm, 

 One specimen. St. Vincent. 



ORTALID^. 



EUXESTA. 



Loew, Berl. Ent. Zeit., v., 385, 1867. 

 1. Euxesta stigmatias. (PI. XII., fig. 127, wing.) 



Euxesta stigmatias, Loew, Berl. Ent. Zeit., xi., 310, 

 pi. ii., fig. 18; Monogr., iii., 163, pi. ix., 

 fig. 17. — Cnba, Brazil. 



Numerous specimens agreeing with the description. 

 The hind metatarsi are, for the most part, yellow. 



2. Euxesta annoyise, 



Musca annonde, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., iv., 358. 

 Tephritis amionse, Fabricius, Syst. Antl., 320. 

 Ortalis annonse, Wiedemann, Auss. Zweifl. Ins., ii., 



463. — South America. 

 Urophora quadrivittata, Macquart, Hist. Nat. Dipt., ii., 



456. 

 Euxesta annonas, Loew, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., xi., 305, 



pi. ii., fig. 13 ; Monogr., iii., 162, pi. ix., fig. 13. — 



Cuba. 

 Amethysa annonse, Schiner, Reise der Novara, 



Diptera, 283. — South America. 



