igiS-] m;. Bezzi : Indian Trypaneids 'Fruit-Flies). 165 



67. Tephritis lyncea, n. sp c? ? . 

 (PI. X, fig. 67). 



An entirely grey species, without dark margins on the thorax and abdomen, with 

 reticulate wings and black stigma, bearing a large round hyaline spot. Length 3 — 

 3|- mm. 



Head grey, with reddish frons and whitish face ; a small whitish border along the 

 eyes. Bristles black ; or. 1.2; pvt., exterior vt. and those of the hind row whitish ; 

 antennae reddish, the third joint obtuse, with bare arista ; palpi and proboscis yellow, 

 the last very short. 



Thorax with dense pollen, yellowish on the back and grey on the pleura ; pubes- 

 cence long, of pale yellow colour ; bristles black, inserted on less distinct black dots. 

 Scutellum like the thorax, reddish at the apex, with 4 black bristles, the apical pair 

 being smaller and not crossed. Squamulae and haltères yellowish. Abdomen entirely 

 grey, with long yellow pubescence and few black bristles at end ; last segment of the 

 male as long as the two preceding together, the genitalia grey ; ovipositor flattened, 

 black shining, as long as the three last segments together. Legs yellow, the hind 

 femora with the last half blackish grey ; other femora a little grey ; front femora with 

 the bristles less developed ; hind tibiae not pectinate. 



Wings long and narrow, with small costal bristle ; they are broadly hyaline from 

 the base to the stigma, and here the veins are yellowish ; stigma black, with a large 

 hyaline round spot in the middle. The reticulation of the wings is formed by large 

 hyaline spots ; there are two larger black patches, one below the stigma, the other at 

 the end of the first vein ; between these, the marginal cell shows three large quadrate 

 spots of equal size, and below these three others in the submarginal cell. Apex of 

 submarginal and of first posterior cells, the whole second posterior and apex of the 

 third posterior cells with many hyaline spots ; discal cell almost hyaline, with some 

 spots at apex. Axillar lobe hyaline. 



One male and two female specimens from DarjiHng, E. Himalayas {Lynch). 



This and the following species are very distinct from the preceding by the or. 

 bristles being only i. 2. 



68. Tephritis spiloptera, n. sp. & . 

 (PI. x, fig. 68). 



Closely allied to the preceding, but distinguished by the striped thorax, spotted 

 abdomen and different pattern of the wings. Length 3 mm. 



Head as in the preceding, with the same colouring and bristles ; a reddish spot 

 over the middle of the epistome. Thorax with three distinct longitudinal blackish 

 stripes on the middle, the two exterior corresponding to the dc. row ; a notopleural 

 stripe is less distinct ; besides the bristles of the thorax and the two basal bristles of 

 the scutellum are inserted on distinct black dots. Abdomen with two longitudinal 

 rows of median black spots, the lateral being less distinct ; the hind margin of the 

 segments, moreover, narrowly yellowish, and the last segment broadly reddish at the 



