1913.] M. Bezzi : Indian Trypaneids (Fruit-Flies). 163 



Head wanting. Thorax with dense grey pollination^ on the pleura dark ferrugin- 

 ous ; pubescence long and yellow ; bristles dark ferruginous. Scutellum with 4 

 bristles, apical pair strong. Squamulae dark brown ; haltères black. Abdomen 

 narrow and elongate, shining black, with light dark greyish pollen and dark pubes- 

 cence ; bristles less developed ; ovipositor flattened, as long as the two last segments. 

 Legs slender, entirely reddish yellow ; hind tibiae bare. 



Wings entirely black, only the extreme base and the axillar lobe being a little 

 paler ; costal bristle very . strong and long, accompanied by another smaller one ; 

 veins black ; marginal and discal cell very broad, and therefore second and fifth veins 

 very divergent from the third and fourth, which are parallel ; third entirely bare ; 

 stigma black, short, with a small yellowish spot on the upper basal corner. The 

 hyaline marginal spots are disposed as follows : three in the costal cell, one before and 

 two after the humeral cross- vein ; a large triangular indentation just after the stigma, 

 surpassing the second but not reaching the third vein, with a small isolated black spot 

 at the costa ; a small spot before the end of the second vein, and' another in the middle 

 between the ends of the second and third veins ; one, the largest of all, at the tip, 

 between the ends of the third and fourth veins ; two of smaller size, placed at equal 

 distances, in the second posterior cell ; and two very small in the third posterior cell, 

 near the anal vein. The discal spots are not whitish-hyaline, but brownish yellow 

 and therefore less distinct ; there are two in the submarginal, one in the first basal, 

 two in the first posterior and two in the discal cell ; there is also a hyaline very small 

 dot below the fifth vein, towards its middle. 



A single specimen, without head, from Tenasserim, L. Burma [W . Doherty). 



The arista of this species is probably shortly plumose, as in the following. The 

 species seems to be allied to amplipennis, Walker, which, with some others, belongs 

 to a group that recalls the American genus Eutreta. But Osten-Sacken says that the 

 species of this group have a bristly third vein and six scutellar bristles, characters 

 which do not belong to the species here described , which perhaps shows afiinity with 

 the group Rioxa. 



65. Tephritis zodiacalis, n. sp. $ . 



(PI. X, fig. 65). 



Allied to the preceding, but smaller and with undilated wings, which have more 

 numerous hyahne spots. lycngth of body 4J mm., of the wing 4 mm. ; width of the 

 wing 2^ mm. 



Frons yellowish and face whitish ; antennae yellow, with the third joint rounded 

 and a short plumose arista ; palpi and proboscis yellow ; bristles black, or. 2. 3 ; pvt., 

 exterior vt. and those of the occipital row whitish and strong. Thorax grey, with 

 short yellow pubescence and black bristles. Scutellum with only the basal pair of 

 bristles. Squamulae and haltères yellowish. Abdomen as in the preceding, but at the 

 base in the middle of the first segment with a short yellowish longitudinal stripe. Legs 

 as in the preceding, entirely yellow. 



Wings less broad, but the direction of the veins as in the preceding ; they are 



