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elongated limpid drops ; a somewhat larger one at the tip of the 

 wing ; eight or nine drops on the posterior border, two of which 

 are larger than the others ; three drops in a longitudinal row be- 

 tween the third and fourth, and several larger and smaller drops 

 between the fqurth and fifth veins; legs bright honey-yellow. 

 Hab. Mexico. (Berlin Museum.) 



9. T. scutellata Wied. 9. (Auss. Zw. II, 494.) — Fusca, scutello 

 rubido ; alis extrerna basi, fasciis, punctisque binis fasciaque anteapicali 

 eluta fuscis. Long. corp. 0.26. 



Body rather slender. Head broader than the thorax. Last 

 joint of antennae elongated, linear. Antennae and hypostoma 

 somewhat reddish yellow. Front brownish-red. Body of a shade 

 of brown which holds the middle between the color of chocolate 

 and that of cloves. Thorax with a grayish reflection. Shoulders, ■ 

 scutellum and occiput somewhat pale reddish-yellow. Abdomen 

 narrow, incisions and a longitudinal line, at least beyond the middle, 

 somewhat whitish. Wing with two bands at the root ; the anterior 

 one is broader and somewhat curved, the posterior one is narrowed 

 and more straight, running over the usual cross-vein ; both are 

 entire and have the middle cross- vein between them. Before the 

 tip of the wing, which is white, there is a somewhat obsolete band ; 

 before this band is a transverse streak and still more internally, 

 between the third and fourth vein, a brown dot. Legs brown, 

 femora in part reddish brown. 



Hab. Mexico. 



1©. T. marginepunctata Macq. (Hist. Nat. Dipt. II, 464. 9. 

 Tephritis.) Long. corp. 0.32. 



Thorax with a grayish down ; abdomen reddish fulvous ; wings 

 blackish ; several white spots along the borders. 

 Hab. Philadelphia. 



11. T. obliqua Macq. (Hist. Nat. Dipt. II, 464; Dipt. Exot. 11,3, 

 225. Tab. XXX, f. 11. Tephritis.) Long. corp. 0.23. 



Yellow ; metathorax with two black spots. Wings at basis, 

 along the anterior border and three oblicfhe transverse bands j a 

 hyaline spot at the anterior border, brownish ferruginous. 



Hab. Cuba. 



