130 Memoirs of the Indian Museum. [Voiv. Ill, 



use it notwithstanding the reasons advanced by Mr. R. von Ihering in Entomologista 

 hrasileiro, ii, 212 (1909). 



36 Ceratitis capitata, Wiedemann. 



Wiedemann, Anal, entom., 55, 124 \Trypeta'\ (1824). For a complete bibliography of this species 

 see Bezzi, Boll. Labor. Zool. Portici, iii, 276 (1909) and Froggatt, Report 1907-1908, 100 (1909). 



Easily distinguished by the pecuhar colouration of the body and wings, and by 

 the spatulate appendages of the frons of the male. 



In the collection of the Indian Museum there are only 2 specimens from Australia 

 presented by Mr. Froggatt; but this cosmopolitan species is recorded here because it 

 was first described from East India, and is known as a fruit-pest in this country. 



The species is well known ; I will add to the description that the frons is pilose 

 in the middle ; the thoracic and scutellar bristles are black, except the scp. which 

 are yellow ; the stout hairs on the mesopleura are black in the male and yellow in the 

 female and the hairs on the upper side of the front femora are also black in the male, 

 yellow in the female. 



17. Phagocarpus, Rondani. 

 Rondani, Bull. Soc. entom. ital., iii, 171, xix (1871). 

 Anomoia, Walker, Entom. Magaz., iii, 80 (1836), not of Chevrolat, Coleoptera, 1834. 



Distinct by reason of the long and very oblique hind cross- vein and by the peculiar 

 wing-pattern ; from Ceratitis it is distinguished by the arista being pubescent on both 

 sides, by the different shape of the discal cell and by the absence of the black streaks 

 at the base of the wings. 



Head as high as broad, not produced below ; cheeks narrow ; eyes rounded ; 

 occiput not swollen superiorly ; face flattened, epistome not at all prominent ; antennae 

 inserted towards the middle of the eyes, a little shorter than the face, the third joint 

 rounded at the end, the arista shortly pubescent on both sides ; palpi with short 

 bristles ; proboscis short. Chaetotaxy complete ; oc. short and weak ; pvt. strong and 

 parallel ; or. 2. 3 ; genal bristle strong; bristles of the occipital row well-developed and 

 black ; frons thinly pilose toward the middle. 



Thorax with black pubescence and complete chaetotaxy; sc. well-developed and 

 black ; dc. near the scutellum ; 2 mpl. ; pt. weak. Scutellum with four bristles, the 

 apical parallel. Abdomen narrowed at base, bristly at end. Legs short and robust ; 

 front femora with a row of bristles below ; middle tibiae with a single spur ; hind 

 tibiae not ciliated. 



Wings of usual shape and with short costal bristle ; first longitudinal vein short, 

 ending before the small cross-vein ; stigma very short ; second vein ending in the middle 

 between the ends of the first and third veins, or a little after ; third and fourth veins 

 parallel with one another ; third bristly at the base only; small cross- vein placed on 

 the middle of the discal cell, but apparently before the middle, because the hind cross- 

 vein is very long and oblique, on the upper end very close to the small cross- vein and on 

 the lower end very near the hind margin of the wing ; the discal cell is therefore short 



