72 E. E. AUSTEN — A NEW GENUS AND 



Berl. Ent. Z., v. Jahrg., 1861, p. 266, Taf. ii, fig. 6— Cape Colony), T. tritea, 

 Walk. (List Dipt. Ins. in coll. Brit. Mus., iv. 1849, p. 1034— Sierra Leone), 

 and T. scutellata, Walk. (Lisecta Saundersiana, Diptera, Part iv. 185*?, \p 

 p. 384), must also be assigned to Carpoplithoromi/ia, Besides the type of 

 C. seutellata^ which is labelled '^ ? Senegal," the Museum possesses a female 

 of this species from the Hinterland of Sierra Leone {Lieut. Boyd Horshruc/Ji, 

 1898). 



It will be seen that, so far as our present knowledge goes, the genus is 

 confined to Africa. Nothing has yet been recorded as to the life-history of 

 any of the species, though there can be little doubt that, like those of other 

 Dacin^E; the larvse are destructive to fruit. 



Carpophthoromyia pulchella, sp. n. (Fig. 1.) 



(^ $ . — Length, ^ (1 specimen) 4 mm., ? (2 specimens) 4*8 to 5 mm. ; 

 length of proximal segment of ovipositor 1*4 to 1'5 mm. ; width of head, 

 ^ 1*8 mm., ? 1*6 to 1*75 mm. ; length of wing, <^ 5 mm., $ 4'6 mm. 



Fig. 1. — Carpophthoromyia pulchella, Austen. $ (X 6). 



Head straw-yellow * or cream-huff coloured, witli dark hroion markings ; hody 

 shining black, scutellum, metapleurce, and an oblique stripe on each side of thorax, 

 including humeral callus and extending to posterior margin of mesopleura, 

 Naples yellow ; upper surface of abdomen with tivo lohitish-grey or creayn-buff- 

 coloured bands, hind border of fourth segment in 9 cinnamon-rufous ; wings 

 hyaline, ivith sharply defined clove-brown markings; legs buff-yellow, middle 

 and hind femora, anterior and posterior surfaces of front femora j and extreme 

 base of middle and hind tibice clove-brown. 



Head : occiput with two clove-brown blotches, narrowly separated in 

 middle line in S -> ^^^ meeting together, at any rate below, in 9 ^ in which 



* For names and illustrations of colours, see Ridgway ' A Nomenclature of Colors for 

 Naturalists ' (Boston : Little, Brown, and Company, 1886). 



