I04 Memoirs of the Indian Museum. [Vol. Ill, 



between the small cross- vein and the prefurca, and extends perpendicularly to the 

 hind margin at the end of the 6th vein; the second begins after the end of the first 

 vein and extends upon the posterior cross- vein to the hind margin at the end of the 

 5th vein ; these two cross bands are yellow above and brownish below. The third 

 cross band is smaller and more oblique, wholly brownish, and reaches the hind 

 margin a little beyond the end of the 4th vein. The anal cross-vein is strongly 

 curved as in Ceratitis. 



A single female from Paresnath, W. Bengal, 4400 ft., ii-iv-09 (A^. Annandale) 



12. Stictaspis striata, Froggatt. 

 (PI. viii, fig. 14). 



Froggatt, Rep. on paras, aud injur, ins., 1907-08, iii, pi. v, f, 17 [Ceratitis] (1909). 



Very like the preceding, but smaller and with a different pattern on the thorax 

 and scutellum. 



Frontal spot darker than in the preceding. The thorax shows above the humeri 

 a single large quadrate black spot; the median stripe is connected with the 

 quadrate spot in front of the scutellum. The scutellum is wholly black, the basal 

 border and two round subapical dots yellow; metanotum entirely black, with a 

 median yellow spot and the lateral whitish spots as in the preceding, but with a 

 brown dot beneath the 5th abdominal segment ; in the male with six black bristles ; 

 the whitish transverse bands less distinct. The row of bristles on the anterior 

 femora numbering 5 or 6 ; hind tibiae with shorter bristles. 



Pattern of the wing exactly as in the preceding, but the smaller apical cross 

 band is often not united with the costal border. 



I have seen a d' cotype from Peradenyia, Ceylon, August, 1903 (-ff-), and 

 three additional females from the same locality, 8-viii-io (^xf-)- 



13 Stictaspis separata, n. sp. 9 . 

 (PI. viii, fig. 15). 



Very distinct from the other species by the position of the small cross-vein and 

 by the pattern of the thorax and wings. Length 6 mm., including the ovipositor. 



There is only a single damaged specimen, from which it is not possible to draw 

 up a complete description , but in spite of this I have named the species because it is 

 too characteristic to be overlooked. 



Head as in the preceding, the frontal spot above the antennae brownish. 

 Thorax with a quadrate spot in front of the scutellum and two small black streaks 

 after the transverse suture outside the dc. ; the four lateral black spots of the pre- 

 ceding species are wholly wanting. Pleura opaque cinereous. Scutellum with three 

 black spots as in ceratitina; metanotum yellow, with whitish spots on the sides. 

 Haltères yellow. 



Abdomen yellow ; the 3rd, 4th and 5th segments with a small blackish trans- 

 verse band on the fore border, interrupted in the middle. Ovipositor reddish yellow, 

 short trapezoidal, hardly at all longer than broad, not longer than the three last 



