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Subgenus PARASCAPTOMYZA Duda 

 Parascaptomyza Duda, 1924 : 203. 



Type-species : Drosophila pallida Zetterstedt, 1847 : 2571 (Europe). 



Scaptomyza (Parascaptomyza) pallida (Zetterstedt) 



Drosophila pallida Zetterstedt, 1847 : 2571 (Europe). 



Scaptomyza (Parascaptomyza) pallida (Zetterstedt) Hackman, 1959 : 41 (Asia, Australia, Hawaii, 



N. America, S. America, Europe, N. Aftrica, etc.) ; Wheeler and Takada, 1964 : 196 (Bonin 



Is.). 

 Scaptomyza disticha Duda, 1921 : 64 (N. Africa). 

 Scaptomyza (Parascaptomyza) disticha Duda, 1935 : 58 (Orbis Terrarum) : Okada, 1956 : 68 



(Japan). 

 Parascaptomyza disticha (Duda) ; Basden, 1952 : 201 (Europe) ; Collin, 1953 : 149 (Europe) ; 



Basden, 1954 : 648 (Scotland) ; Hackman, 1955 : 80 (Finland). 



Taplejung District, Sangu, yellow blooms of cultivated Composite (Guizotia 

 abyssinica Cassini), c. 6,200', 16-29. x. 1961, 1 <$ ; ibid., mixed vegetation by stream 

 in gully, c. 6,200', ix-x.1961, 1 § ; ibid., xi. 1961-1.1962, 1 $ ; below Sangu, mixed 

 vegetation on sheltered slope above River Tamur, c. 4,000', 3. i. 1962, 1 <$, 2 $ ; 

 Dobhan, shady places on shrubby slope above River Tamur, c. 3,500', 21-27.1.1962, 

 1 ^ ; ex Lycopodium sp. on slope above Sangu, c. 7,800', 11-14.1.1962, 2 $, 5 $ ; 

 above Sangu, mixed vegetation in dried-up ravine, c. 6,800', 16. ii. 1962, 1 $. Arun 

 Valley, east shore of River Arun below Tumlingtar, swept from Ricinns communis L., 

 c. 1,800', 14-23. xii. 1961, j<$, 7 $ ; ibid., evergreen shrubs bordering dry stream-beds, 

 c. 1,800', 14-23. xii. 1961, 1 $, (R.L.C.). 



Distribution : Nepal (new locality), Viet-Nam, Java, China, Formosa, Japan, 

 Korea, Siberia, Iraq, Turkestan, Bonin Is., Hawaii, N. America, S. America, Europe, 

 Canary Is., Azores, Madeira, Cape Verde Is., N. Africa. 



All of the Nepalese specimens examined belong to the type with dark body 

 coloration. 



Subgenus SCAPTOMZYA Hardy 

 Scaptomyza Hardy, 1849 : 361. 



Type-species : Drosophila graminum Fallen, 1823 : 8 (Europe). 



Scaptomyza (Scaptomyza) parasplendens sp. n. 



(Text-figs. 164-169) 



0*,$. Body about 2-2 mm., dark greyish brown. Head slightly broader than thorax. Eyes 

 dark red, with thick long grey pilosity. Antennae with second segment black ; third yellowish 

 orange. Arista with about five dorsal branches, a long ventral one, and a small terminal fork. 

 Palpus yellow, slender, apically dark. Ocellar triangle black, large, somewhat grey pollinose. 

 Periorbit grey, somewhat pollinose, three-fourths as long as front, anteriorly slightly broadened. 

 Front mostly yellowish grey, dark orange between periorbits and ocellar triangle, dark around 

 ocellar triangle, anteriorly somewhat narrowing and narrower than median length, posteriorly 

 nearly half as broad as head width. Clypeus pale brown, narrow. Face white, flat, parallel- 



