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blacky but the pvt. yellow ; genal bristle yellow, indistinct; on the lower portion of 

 the occiput some yellow hairs ; palpi and proboscis yellow, clothed with pale hairs. 



Thorax clothed with yellow pubescence, which on the pleura is longer ; bristles 

 black, except the st. and the very weak scp. which are yellow. The black spots on 

 the sides are disposed as follows : one small, opaque, on the humeri above the hm. ; 

 one larger, before the suture between npl. and prst., shining above, opaque beneath; 

 one still larger after the anterior sa., extending to the dc, shining above and opaque 

 below, sometimes divided into two spots ; and a fourth, shining and small, on the 

 postalar calli. There is also a large rounded black spot just in front of the scutellum. 

 The scutellar spots are opaque, two on the sides at the base, one rounded in the middle 

 before the tip, and one on the underside below the tip. Pleura wholly yellow, meta- 

 notum with a black streak above. Haltères and squamulae whitish yellow. 



Abdomen wholly yellow, unspotted, the last segments shining ; the 2nd to 4th 

 segments show a cinereous cross-band along the hind margin. Genitalia reddish yellow, 

 shining ; ovipositor shining yellow. The pubescence of the abdomen is yellow, the 

 bristles are black. Front femora in both sexes with very few bristles. Wing veins 

 yellow ; the stump of the second vein is narrowly bordered with a dark yellow shade. 



This species is recorded only from India ; the bionomics are well known, and the 

 larvae and puparium have been figured many times. The larva breeds in cultivated 

 melons, to which it is very injurious ; it is known as the Baluchistan Melon-fiy. 



In the collection before me are 5 specimens, all co-types of Bigot and labelled 

 Baluchistan (/. Cleghorn) âii s^-iiso 



19, Carpomyia, A. Costa. 



A Costa, Annal, scient., i, Qj (1854) ; Roudani, Bull. soc. entora. ital., i, 164(1869). 



This genus is very near the preceding and shows a similar pattern of body and 

 wings ; but is distinguished from it and from any other of the group by the absence 

 of the ocellar bristles. 



Head less high, the face being not so produced below and the cheeks being 

 narrower ; eyes a Httle narrowed ; frons less prominent. The chaetotaxy and other 

 characters are the same as in the preceding ; antennae more elongate, the third joint 

 not attenuated ; arista with shorter pubescence. On the wings the stump of the second 

 vein is wanting and the small cross- vein is placed towards the middle of the discal cell ; 

 the yellow cross-bands are sometimes much reduced. 



Type : C. vesitviana , A. Costa, 1854. 



There is great confusion about this genus. It was evidently named in MS. 

 by Rondani ; but the first notice is found in the rare paper of Prof. Achille Costa, 

 Frammenti di entomologia napoletana, printed in Naples in 1854. Schiner has named 

 it Orellia, and has mixed up some species belonging to other genera; moreover Rondani 

 has stated that Orellia flavicans, Rob. Desv., is the same as Trypeta falcata, Scopoli. 

 The division proposed by Rondani in 1869 was accepted by I^oew in 1873 (Monogr. iii, 

 260) as follows : Oedaspis with the species dichotoma, fissa and multifasciata, Goni- 

 glossum with wiedemanni and Carpomyia with vesuviana {hucchichii) and schineri. 



