NOTES ON THE ETHIOPIAN FRUIT-FLIES — I. 235 



7. Pardalaspis flexuosa, WalkGr, Ins. Saund., iv, 1853, p. 382, v. vm, fig. 2. 



Described from the Cape and not found subsequently ; the above-quoted figure 

 by Westwood shows a very distinct species, with characteristic scutellum and wing 

 pattern. 



' 8. Pardalaspis quinaria, sp. nov. (Plate v, fig. 6). 



Closely allied to the preceding species, but at once distinguished by the five 

 scutellar black spots and by the more complete wing pattern. 



cJ $. Length of body, 4*5-5 mm. ; of ovipositor, scarcely 1 mm. ; of wing, 4*5-5 mm. 



Head entirely dull yellowish, grey dusted on the occiput, whitish on the face ; 

 frons in the middle with a broad, dark reddish spot, which is ill-defined. Antennae 

 entirely yellow, with a shortly pubescent arista ; jowls unspotted. Palpi whitish, 

 without black bristles ; proboscis yellowish. Cephalic bristles black or dark brown ; 

 oc. thin and long ; 2 i. or. ; genal bristle thin and yellow. Thorax entirely reddish 

 yellow, paler on the sides, with whitish or pale yellowish pubescence ; humeri and 

 sides entirely destitute of black spots ; on disc there are two pairs of black dots, like 

 those of silveslrii, one at the suture, the other at the dc. ; there are also two small 

 black dots on each side, behind the root of the wings. Scutellum pale yellowish, 

 shining, with five equally small, black spots, one at apex and a pair on each side, 

 placed symmetrically. Mesophragma yellow, whitish dusted ; hypopleural spot 

 double, whitish. All the bristles black ; dc. a little behind the line of the a. sa. ; 

 1 mpl. Halteres whitish. Abdomen pale yellowish, with the 3rd segment distinctly 

 darkened and with greyish bands on hind borders of 1st and 3rd segments ; apical 

 bristles reddish or blackish (in the female) ; ovipositor flat, entirely reddish. Coxae 

 and legs entirely pale yellowish ; their bristles and hairs are yellowish, only those of 

 the front femora being black. Wings hyaline, with ill-developed dark basal spots ; 

 stigma yellowish, and from it a yellowish band goes over the small cross- vein to the 

 hind border, becoming darker in the third posterior cell and disappearing before 

 reaching the wing margin ; the marginal yellowish band united to the stigma, with 

 the usual five blackish dots and infuscated at end ; the oblique band over the hind 

 cross- vein is wholly infuscated and is produced only a little beyond the 4th vein above. 

 Last portion of 4th vein without a dark streak. Costal bristle well developed ; 

 venation normal ; small cross-vein placed on the first third of the rather long 

 discoidal cell. 



Type (J and type § (British Museum), a single pair from Salisbury, 9th December 

 1915, bred from apricot (R. W. Jack). 



9. Pardalaspis stictica, Bezzi, Boll. Lab. Zool. Portici, iii, 1909, p. 278, and vii, 



1912, p. 6. 



Described from the Congo and found in W. Africa, Ashanti, by Dr. Graham. 



10. Pardalaspis inscripta, Graham, Bull. Ent. Res., i, 1910, p. 164. 



Described from South Ashanti, Obuasi, and not found subsequently. Its position 

 in the present genus is doubtful, chiefly because the wing pattern seems to be like 

 that characteristic of the following genus Trirhithrum* 



*[This species is a Tririthrum and identical with T. nigerrimum var. coffeae, Bezzi (see 

 Plate v, fig. 9).— Ed.] 



