16 PROF. M. BEZZI. 



The cephalic bristles are broken off in the type, only the inner vt. being present, 

 which are black like those of the occipital row. Thorax entirely black, even on 

 the pleurae, and rather shining ; the humeri and a narrow notopleural line are 

 reddish ; on the back it seems to be a little grey dusted ; the bristles are black, but 

 they are mostly broken off. Scutellum yellowish red, with black sides at base. 

 Mesophragma shining black. Halteres yellow. Abdomen entirely black, rather 

 shining, with black bristles at end. Legs and coxae entirely yellow. Wings- 

 hyaline, with yellow veins, but with the costa darkened on its apical half. No> 



Fig. 1. TepJiritis vernoniicola, Bezzi, sp. n. 



costal bristle ; stigma short, honey yellow ; the extreme tip of the wings, between 

 the ends of the 3rd and 4th longitudinal veins, has a faint greyish shading ; in^ 

 the rest there is no trace of bands, but the wing is rather broadly yellowish at 

 base. The last portion of the 4th vein is straight, but slightly converging with . 

 the 3rd, the 1st posterior cell being smaller at the end than in indecora ; small 

 cross-vein placed about in the middle of the discoidal cell. 



Type ^ and an additional specimen, both in poor condition, in the writer's 

 collection from Erythraea, Adi Ugri, bred from fusiform galls on twigs of 

 Vernonia abyssinica (Dr. J. Baldrati). 



XIX. Staurella, Bezzi (1913). 



I have to record here this Oriental genus only because it is recorded as Ethiopian 

 by Prof. Hendel ; but at present I do not know any Ethiopian species belonging to it. 



The genus is closely allied to Rhacochhena; of which it has the reduced chaetotaxy 

 and a similar wing pattern ; but it is at once distinguished by the quite bare 3rd 

 longitudinal vein. Owing to this fact I now think that the Indian species, 

 S. nigripeda, Bezzi (1913), which has a bristly 3rd vein, is better placed in 

 Rhacochhena, inasmuch as its wing pattern is very like that of R. toxoneura. 



XX. Carpomyia, A. Costa. 

 Of this genus the following species of very wide geographical distribution is 

 represented in the collection before me : — 



1. Carpomyia incomplete, Becker (1903) ; Bezzi (1911, 1913) ; Silvestri, Boll. 

 Labor. Zool. Portici, 1916, xi, p. 176, fig. 8. 



A characteristic little fly, which is at once distinguished by its entirely pale 

 yellowish body with only two black spots on the mesophragma, and by the 

 incompletely banded wings. 



Prof. Silvestri has recorded this species from the Sudan, Khartoum, and from 

 Erythraea, Keren. In the collection before me there are two specimens from the 

 Sudan, Zeidali, 10. hi. 1910, " Nalebak fruit-fly " (H. H. King). 



