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



the small cross- vein ; 2nd, 3rd. and 4th veins almost straight, 3rd and 4th parallel, 

 3rd bare ; cross-veins very approximate, the small cross- vein being separated from the 

 hind cross- vein by a distance less than its own length ; inferior angle of the anal cell 

 drawn out into a short and broad point, as long as the second basal cell. Pattern of the 

 wings very characteristic, with a complete cross-band in the middle. 



Type : Tephritis marginata , Fallen, 1820. 



With this genus begins a series of genera which are often difficult to distinguish ; 

 I have followed here the usual division, based sometimes only upon the characters of 

 the pattern of the wings. 



60. Sphenella indica, Schiner. 

 (PL X, fig. 60). 



Schiner, Dipt. Novara Reise, 267, no (1868). 



Very near the European marginata, but distinguished by the unspotted stigma 

 and the darker pattern of the wings. 



Thoracic and scutellar bristles black ; beneath the black npl. there are two weaker 

 yellow bristles. Abdomen with rich yellow pubescence ; the apical bristles black. 

 Squamulae whitish, haltères yellowish. lyCgs entirely yellow. Costal cell black, 

 with two yellowish hyaline spots at the two ends ; stigma entirely black ; a conspicu- 

 ous yellowish hyaline spot just after the stigma, but the median band besides this 

 shows only 2 or 3 small yellowish dots ; in Schiner' s description these dots are more 

 numerous. There is a brown spot in the middle of the 5th vein, and another which is 

 paler on the 6th vein. 



Schiner describes the species from Madras ; in the collection is a single specimen 

 without head from Puri, Orissa, 20— 2i-i-o8 (^f|^). 



31. Oxyna, Robineau-Desvoidy. 

 Rob.-Desv., Essai sur les Myodaires, 755, iii (1830). 



Very near the preceding, but distinct by reason of the cross- veins being not so 

 approximate and the pattern of the wings reticulate not banded (and in the species 

 here described by the absence of the apical scutellar bristles). 



Head broader than high, long and depressed ; face short and concave, the epistome 

 prominent ; antennae as in the preceding ; proboscis long and geniculate, often very 

 long and slender; palpi with some bristles at end. Oc. well developed; or. i. 2 (in 

 the species here described) ; occipital row well developed. 



Thorax with pale pubescence and complete chaetotaxy ; scutellar bristles 4 or 2, 

 the apical bristles being sometimes very small. Abdomen slender, with short bristles 

 and short flattened ovipositor. I^egs as in the preceding, but slender. 



Wings narrow and elongate, with small costal bristle ; first vein not reaching the 

 small cross- vein ; cross- vein less approximate, the distance of the small cross- vein from 

 the hind cross- vein always greater than the length of the same vein. Pattern of the 

 wings reticulate, sometimes very little developed. 



Type : Tephritis absinthii, Fabricius, 1805. 



