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2. Elaphromyia ulula, Loew, Berl. Ent. Zeits., v, 1861, p. 279, pi. ii, fig. 14. 

 — ? melas, Bigot, Rev. Mag. Zool., vii, 1859, p. 10. 

 A very characteristic species, the synonymy of which was established by 

 Prof. Hendel in 1914. Loew described it from N'Garni, collected by Wahlberg ; 

 and Bigot has it from Port Natal. 



XXVIII. Spathulina, Eondani (1856). 



This old name is used here for a natural group of species, which was already 

 indicated by me in my paper of 1908 on the Diptera of Erythraea (pp. 160-161) and 

 in my paper of 1913 on the Indian fruit-flies (p. 160). I had previously called this 

 group Melanoxyna in my collection ; but at present I think that Rondani's name 

 is quite applicable to it. The name Spathulina was first proposed in the Prodr., 

 i, 1856, p. 113, with the type species S. sicula (undescribed, but in the generic 

 diagnosis is the remark : proboscis paulo prodiicta) ; in 1871 the genus was by its 

 author united with Ditricha (type guttularis) ; but in the same paper is to be found 

 the description of D. sicula, which is evidently the same as Tephritis tristis, described 

 from Spain by Loew in 1869. I think therefore that as type of the genus Spathulina 

 must be assumed the species tristis, Loew ( = sicula, Rondani) ; and that in it are 

 to be placed the Oriental parca, Bezzi (1913), the Egyptian parceguttata, Becker 

 (1903), and the following Ethiopian species : — 



1(6). Stigma devoid of hyaline spots. 



2(3). Marginal cell with only 2 hyaline spots ; submarginal cell entirely black 



at end . . . . . . . . . . . . . . semiatra, Loew. 



3(2). Marginal cell with 3 hyaline spots ; submarginal cell broadly hyaline at end. 

 4(5). The apical hyaline spot of the submarginal cell is well separated from that of 



the first posterior cell . . . . . . . . . . parceguttata, Beck. 



5(4). Apical spot of the submarginal cell broadly united with that of the first 



posterior cell, thus forming a broad hyaline patch, in which there is an 



isolated black spot at end of the 3rd longitudinal vein acrosticta, sp. n. 



6(1). Stigma with hyaline spot. 

 7(8). Marginal, submarginal and first posterior cells, each with only 2 hyaline spots ; 



discoidal cell likewise with 2 hyaline spots . . . . aldabrensis, Lamb. 

 8(7). The above-named cells each with 4 hyaline spots ; discoidal cell with 3 



hyaline spots . . . . . . . . . . . . margaritifera, Bezzi. 



1. Spathulina semiatra, Loew, Berl. Ent. Zeits., v, 1861, p. 276, pi. ii, fig. 12. 

 Originally described from Caffraria, and not found subsequently. The scutellum 



of the present species is described as having 4 bristles. 



2. Spathulina parceguttata, Becker, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, ii, 1903, p. 134, pi. 4d, 



fig. 48. 

 Described from Egypt, Cairo, and here recorded only on account of its great 

 resemblance to the following species, and therefore of its probable presence in the 

 Ethiopian region. 



