TRYPETIDAE. 65 



reaches in the middle between the tips of the fourth and fifth lon- 

 gitudinal veins; its color is yellowish-brown near the base of the 

 wings and dark brown beyond the basal cell. The second band 

 runs first from the base of the wing to near the tip of the first 

 longitudinal vein, then crosses the wing obliquely, on the border 

 of which it includes the tip of the fifth longitudinal vein ; the two 

 transverse veins are included by it in such a way that their anterior 

 ends are placed exactly on the outside border of the band ; the 

 color of this band is brownish-yellow with darker brown edges 

 which gradually overcome the lighter color at the posterior end ; 

 also that portion of it which covers the stigma and the space imme- 

 diately beneath it, is dark brown. The third band begins on the 

 costal border immediately behind the stigma and reaches the pos- 

 terior border immediately behind the tip of the fourth longitudinal 

 vein; it is brownish-yellow, edged with dark brown, the posterior 

 end being likewise dark brown. The fourth band begins a little 

 before the tip of the second longitudinal vein and runs on the bor- 

 der of the wiug as far as the] fourth longitudinal .vein, where it is 

 connected with the third band; its color is dark brown, being 

 brownish-yellow only at its anterior end. The two transverse veins 

 are very near each other and very steep ; none of the longitudinal 

 veins is extraordinarily arcuated; the second, third, and fourth 

 longitudinal veins diverge a little at their tips ; the bristles of the 

 third longitudinal vein are very distinct and reach as far as its tip. 

 Hob. Cuba. (Riehl.) 



2. T. loiigipeiinis Wied. % & 9 . (Tab. II, fig. 2 % , 3 9 .)— Flava, 

 angusta, rivulis fas ciisque alarum angustarum fiavo-fuscanis, facie valde 

 recedente. 



Yellow, slender; the narrow wings with brownish-yellow rivulets and 

 bands ; the face much receding. Long. corp. 0.17 — 0.26. Long. al. 

 0.22—0.30. 



Syn. Trypeta longipennis Wiedemann, Auss. Zweifl. II, 483, 12. 

 Strauzia armata R. Desvoidy, Myod. 719, 2. (£ .) 

 Strauzia inermis R. Desvoidy, Myod. 718, 1. (90 



Tephritis trimaculata Macqtjart, Dipt. exot. II, 226, 8. Tab. XXXI, fig. 3. 

 Trypeta cornigera Walker, List. Brit. Mus. IV, 1010. 

 Trrjpeta cornifera Walker, List. Brit. Mus. IV, 1011. 



Very variable both in size and in the color of its body and wings, 

 yet readily recognizable. In the palest individuals the whole body 

 is yellow, only a very small dot immediately above the base of the 

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