NOTES ON THE ETHIOPIAN FRUlT-FLIES — II. 17 



XXI. Craspedoxantha, Bezzi (1913). 



The pTesent genus is closely allied to the following one, Terellia, some species of 

 which show a black-spotted body and a similar course of the 3rd longitudinal 

 vein, as falcata, which has also a caput buceatum (gen. Orellia, R. D.) and a very 

 long point of the anal cell ; but it is distinguished by the different form of the head 

 and of the eyes, and by the peculiar wing pattern. In the present genus the prsc. 

 are placed about in the same position as the dc, thus resembling a first dc. pair. 

 It is not a Trypaneine, and seems to be well represented in the Oriental and 

 Ethiopian regions. The Ethiopian species are as follows : — 



1(2). Scutellum with two black spots at end ; pleurae with a black spot before the 

 ■ root of the wings . . . . . . . . . . . . marginalis, Wied. 



2(1). Scutellum and pleurae quite devoid of black spots . . manengubae, Speis. 



1. Craspedoxantha marginalis, Wiedemann (1830). 



Originally described in the female sex from the Cape, and never seen subsequently. 



2. Craspedoxantha manengubae, Speiser, Deut. Ent. Zeits., 1915, p. 104. 



Originally described in the male sex from Kamerun, Dschung, October 1912 ; 

 there are in the collection some specimens of both sexes from Nyasaland, Mt. Mlanje, 

 6-17. vi. 1912 (S. A. Neave) and Chiromo, Ruo R., 22. ix. 1916 {R. C. Wood). 



To the description of Dr. Speiser may be added : — All the bristles of head and 

 body are of a yellowish colour. Oc. rather strong ; bristles of the occipital row 

 short, thin, acute ; scp. indistinct ; dc. placed at level of the posterior npl. and 

 thus much before the a. sa. ; one mpl. ; pt. strong, but always weaker than the st. 

 The ovipositor is reddish, with the end narrowly black, and sometimes with a small 

 black spot on each side at base ; it is elongate conical (in dried specimens apparently 

 flat), 2 '5 mm. long, but when completely exserted 4 mm. long. Front femora with 

 4—5 strong bristles beneath ; hind tibiae with a complete row of long and rather 

 stout bristles. Wings (PL i, fig. 2) without costal bristle, and of a rather narrow and 

 long shape ; stigma elongate, but always shorter than the second costal cell ; first 

 posterior cell at the middle about 3 times as broad as the submarginal cell ; 

 discoidal cell only a little shorter than the second posterior cell, with the small 

 cross-vein placed beyond its middle ; point of the anal cell longer than the second 

 basal cell. 



Terellia, Robineau-Desvoidy (1830). 



Incidentally recorded here because Prof. Hendel on p. 92 of his work on the 

 Trypaneid genera of the world records it as an Ethiopian one. It is taken in the 

 sense of Trypeta of Loew and other authors, with the addition of the species with 

 banded wings, which in Robineau-Desvoidy are placed in a separate genus under 

 the name of Sitarea. 



I have not seen Ethiopian species of the present genus, but probably hynia, Walker 

 (1849), from Sierra Leone, may belong here. 



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