164 W. M. GRAHAM — 



Taken upon the leaves o£ the oil-pahn at Obuasi, South Ashanti, and at 

 Yaba, Lagos, 2 P.M., 4.viii.09. 



Type in the British Museum. 



The male resembles the female very closely, but is slightly smaller. The 

 legs are not flattened. 



Length 5 mm. ; breadth 13 mm. 



Taken on window at Yaba, Lagos, 9 A.M., i.v.09. 



Ceratitis inscripta^ sp. n. 



^ . Body black, dorsum o£ thorax grey, with black spots ; abdomen black, 

 with grey W-shnped design in middle ; wings hyaline, banded and spotted 

 with brown ; femora brown, tibiae and tarsi yellow. 



Head. Front yellow with a V-shaped brown mark connecting the middle 

 fronto-orbital bristles of either side, a black ocellar spot, a brown mark on 

 frontal lunule and black bristles. Face cream-white, palpi bufl* wdth black 

 hairs, proboscis brown. Thorax grey with shiny black margins, the dorsum 

 with 3 longitudinal interrupted lines, the middle one formed of 3 elongated 

 black spots, the lateral ones of 3 shorter black spots on either side. Humeri 

 with 2 oval black spots outlined v^ith yellow oh each side. Scutellum shiny 

 black, divided by yellow looped lines into 7 small areas; 5 along the margin 

 and 2 above and in front. Abdomen triangular, black, with grey markings 

 as follows: grey lateral apical spots and a thin grey apical band on the 

 segments ; in the median area a pair of triangles outlined in grey upon each 

 segment, the whole series of these triangles forming a large letter W^, its base 

 standing npon the apical segment. Legs : femora brown, tibiae and tarsi 

 yellow. Wings hyaline, with brown markings ; a broad brown band extends 

 along the costa from slightly within the costal cell to beyond the apex of 

 the wing. This band is interrupted along the costa between the 1st and 

 3rd longitudinal veins by five hyaline spots nearly eqnally apart. A broad 

 brown band, nearly at right angles to the costal band, crosses the base of the 

 wing, and passing through the basal half of the discal cell reaches the margin 

 at the Gth longitudinal vein. Between these two bands a hyaline triangle is 

 left, having its base upon the posterior margin of the wing, and its apex near 

 the anterior cross vein. From this apex a narrow- brown band crosses the 

 hyaline triangle to the apex of the 5th longitudinal vein. Halteres with the 

 stem yellow and the knob brownish. 



Length 4 mm. ; length of wing 3*5 mm. . 



Taken on window at Obuasi, South Ashanti, 24.xi.07. 



'Type in the British Museum, 



