226 PROF. M. BEZZI. 



5. Carpophthoromyia superba, sp. nov. (Plate v, fig. 2). 



A strikingly distinct species, which, is provisionally placed in the present genus, 

 notwithstanding the different shape of the scutellum and the basal streaks of the 

 wings. It much resembles the Oriental genus Anaplomus in general appearance 

 and wing pattern, but has a strong hm. 



$. Length of body, 5*5 mm. ; of ovipositor,* 2 mm. ; of wing, 6 mm. 



Head pale yellowish, with a broad, reddish-brown stripe on middle of the frons ; 

 occiput with a brown spot above on each side, and with well developed, white and 

 whitish pilose, lower lateral swellings. Eyes narrow, higher than broad, acute below. 

 Face rather narrow and long, entirely whitish ; a broad, reddish brown spot below 

 the lower angle of eyes. Palpi whitish, broadly ovate, with short black bristles ; 

 proboscis black. The antennae are wanting in the type ; there are only the basal 

 joints, which are reddish. All the bristles of the head are black ; there are three 

 strong i. or. ; the oc. are long but thin ; the ocp. strong and black. Thorax on the 

 back entirely shining black, with sparse and short whitish pubescence ; the humeral 

 calli and the notopleural depression are of a very dark reddish-brown colour ; on 

 the pleura there is a broad, oblique, white stripe, which occupies almost the whole 

 of the meso- and ptero-pleura ; sternopleura entirely reddish-brown ; there are two 

 united white hypopleural spots. Scutellum entirely shining black ; it is convex 

 and rounded ; only at the extreme base of the sides there is a very small, dark 

 yellowish spot. Postscutellum and mesophragma shining black. Chaetotaxy 

 complete ; all the bristles black ; dc. placed on the line of the a. sa. ; 2 strong mpl. ; 

 4 set. Halteres with whitish stalk and blackish knob. Abdomen shining black, 

 ovate ; with strong black bristles on the sides of last segment ; first segment dark 

 ferruginous at base, with a broad and complete band of white dust at hind border ; 

 the 2nd white band occupies more than the whole hinder half of the 3rd segment. 

 The ovipositor is long, reddish, flat. Venter reddish brown, with pale dust. Legs 

 and coxae pale reddish, the middle femora almost entirely black, the others broadly 

 reddish at base ; tibiae and tarsi whitish, the middle tibiae more darkened at base ; 

 front femora with 5-6 long, black bristles ; middle tibiae with a very long and strong, 

 black spur ; hind tibiae with a short row. Wings broad and long. The extreme 

 base is whitish hyaline ; after this there is a portion extending to the stigma and 

 to the base of the 3rd posterior cell, occupied by parallel, alternate, blackish and 

 hyaline longitudinal streaks. The stigma is occupied by a triangular, hyaline 

 indentation, extended below to the 3rd vein. There is an arcuate, blackish band, 

 which extends obliquely from the anal veins, passing over the small cross-vein, to 

 the fore border, and along this to over the end of the 3rd vein, including some darker 

 spots along the costa and leaving a very narrow clear stripe along it. The /\-shaped 

 band of the hind border is regular, but is broken in the middle, just above the 4th 

 vein. Costal spine long and strong ; 2nd longitudinal vein distinctly wavy ; hind 

 cross- vein oblique outwardly, 1st posterior cell very broad ; small cross- vein a little 

 beyond the middle of the short and broad discoidal cell ; anal cross- vein very bent 



* By ovipositor (and its length) is always meant what is in reality the 7th abdominal 

 segment of the female. This is so called by authors and is always intended for basal 

 segment ; the true ovipositor is the apical segment, which is mostly retracted, and thus 

 only rarely recorded by authors in their descriptions. 



