1042 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Group XXIX. Ceratitis, Macleay. 



Trypeta capitata, Wied. Anal. Ent. 55, 124. Auss. Zweif. ii. 496, 

 30. Petalophora capitata, Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 454, 1. 

 Ceratitis citriperda, Macleay, Zool. Journ. iv. 475, pi. 15. 

 Macq. Dipt. Exot. ii. 3, 219, pi. 29, f. 10. 



a. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Trypeta Cosyra, n. s., fem. Fulva, thorace vittis tribus obscurio- 

 ribus, lateribus scutelloque nigrisjlavo radiatis, abdominis disco 

 nigricante, antennis ferrugineis, palpis pedibusque jlavis, alis 

 fulvo fasciatis basi costaque fusco maculatis. 



Body pale tawny, beset with a few stout black bristles : head 

 yellow in front and beneath ; sides of the face without bristles ; epi- 

 stoma very slightly prominent : eyes red, convex ; all the facets very 

 small : sucker yellow, clothed with yellow hairs ; palpi yellow, be- 

 set with black bristles : feelers pale ferruginous, shorter than the 

 face ; third joint rather large, linear above, slightly convex beneath, 

 somewhat truncated at the tip, full thrice the length of the second 

 joint : three dark tawny stripes on the chest ; its sides and the 

 scutcheon black, adorned with slender yellow rays : abdomen obco- 

 nical, suddenly tapering towards the tip, not much longer than the 

 chest ; its disk somewhat blackish : legs yellow, beset with a few 

 yellow bristles ; feet darker ; claws black : wings colourless, with se- 

 veral brown dots near the base and along the fore border, adorned 

 also with some tawny marks ; one of these is at the base ; the se- 

 cond forms a band across the wing, becomes brown on the hind 

 border, joins a stripe which proceeds along the fore border to the 

 tip, and there is also brown ; an oblong brown spot clouds the lower 

 cross-vein ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; middle cross-vein very ob- 

 lique ; lower cross-vein hardly curved inward, nearly upright, parted 

 by much more than its length from the middle cross-vein, by twice 

 its length from the tip, and by less than half its length from the 

 lower border ; poisers pale tawny. Length of the body 2 lines ; of 

 the wings 4 lines. 



a. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 





