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well enough with the present species ; but as this name is preoccupied by Macquart 

 himself, I have adopted the appropriate MS. name of Bigot. 



The collection includes four specimens, c? and $ , from Sikhim (-if---Tf-), 

 bearing a label with the name Tephritis fiexuosa, n. sp. in Bigot's handwriting. A 

 much smaller male (-f-j-) 6 mm. in length, from Paresnath, W. Bengal, 4000-4400 

 ft., i3-iv-09 {N. Annandale). There are aLso cotypes in Bigot's (Verrall's) collec- 

 tion. An additional female from Karmatar, Bengal, 23-X-09 (C. Paiva). 



4. Stictaspis, n. gen. 



Distinguished by its strong chaetotaxy, plumose arista, pointed third antennal 

 joint and black-spotted thorax and scutellum. 



Head as in the preceding, but the occipital swelling much less developed and 

 the face distinctly concave ; third antennal joint pubescent, very sharply pointed at 

 the end; arista very deeply plumose; or. 2. 3; pvt. strong; vt. 2, the inner very 

 strong and long ; a pair of very strong and long oc. ; occipital row of black bristles 

 well developed; genal bristle very strong; vibrissal edges with some short bristles. 

 Palpi with stout black bristles. 



Thoracic chaetotaxy complete ; dc. nearer to the transverse suture than to the 

 scutellum; 2 mpl.; pt. strong and long. Scutellum swollen, rounded, black spotted, 

 with four bristles, the apicals parallel. 



Abdomen with six distinct segments, the last segments bristly ; ovipositor flat- 

 tened, more or less long; male genitalia not prominent. Femora not spinulose 

 beneath, the anteriors with a row of bristles beneath; middle tibiae with a single spur ; 

 middle and hind tibiae with a row of bristles on the outside. 



Pattern of the wings as in Ceratitis ; costal bristle well developed ; third vein 

 bristly throughout its length ; small cross-vein before the middle or in the middle of 

 the discal cell; posterior cross- vein a little oblique; second basal cell a little en- 

 larged; anal cell with the posterior angle drawn out into a long point, longer than 

 the second basal cell. 



Type : Stictaspis ceratitina, n. sp. 



It is very probable that some African species of Ceratitis with plumose arista 

 belong here. 



The species in the collection can be distinguished as follows : — 



1 (4). -Small cross vein before the middle of the discal cell ; yellow costal 



border of the wings complete ; dorsum of the thorax with shin- 

 ing black spots on the sides ; abdomen without blackish 

 transverse bands. 



2 (3). Thorax without median black stripe before the transverse suture ; 



scutellum with 3 black spots . . . . . . ceratitina, n. sp. 



3 (2). Thorax with a longitudinal black stripe; scutellum with a single 



great black spot . . . . . , . . striata, Froggatt. 



4 (i), Small cross- vein on the middle of the discal cell; yellow costal 



border interrupted between the first and the second cross- band ; 

 lateral black spots of the thorax wanting ; abdomen blackish 

 banded . . , . . . . . . . separata, n. sp. 



