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setae. Clasper large, black, triangular, with a straight row of about ten pointed black teeth 

 occupying dorsal two-thirds of distal margin. Phallic organs mostly deep brownish black. 

 Aedeagus elongate fusiform, hairy, pale yellow, ventrally with a pair of elongate apically bifid 

 gently curved projections. Apodeme straight, about twice as long as aedeagus. Anterior 

 paramere elongate, medially curved, proximally broadened, distally narrowing and thickly 

 hairy, with a longitudinal row of several sensilla on median two-thirds, and basally with a large 

 pointed ventrally directed processes. Posterior parameres fused to form a pale large triangular 

 flap, laterally attached to the lateral processes of ventral fragma. PI = 0.5. p.f. = Ab'CDE 

 fgHiKLMN. Egg-guide lobe orange-yellow or dark orange, elongate oval, distally narrowly 

 rounded, proximally tapering, with about thirteen marginal and a discal pointed orange-yellow 

 teeth, ultimate marginal tooth longest. Subterminal hair distinct. Basal isthmus yellow, 

 straight, about one-fifth as long as lobe. 



Holotype <$. East Nepal : Taplejung District, between Sangu and Tamrang, 

 mixed plants by damp cliff in river gorge, c. 5,200', i-ii.1962 (R.L.C.), BMNH. 



Allotype $. Taplejung District, Sangu, mixed vegetation in deep gully, c. 6,200', 

 2.1-13.11.1962 {R.L.C.), BMNH. 



Paratypes : 6 $, same data as holotype ; 10 $, same data as allotype ; Taplejung 

 District, 1 <$, 2 $, Sangu, by stream in gully, c. 6,200', ix-x.1961 ; 1 <$, ibid., clearing 

 in small wood, c. 6,200', 25.xi.1961 ; 7 <£, 20 $, ibid., mixed vegetation by stream in 

 gully, c. 6,200', xi. 1961-1.1962 ; 2 <$, between Sangu and Tamrang, collected with 

 holotype ; 1 J, 1 $, ibid., dense vegetation in tree shade by hill stream, c. 5,500', 

 23.x. 1961 ; 1 J, ibid., mossy ground under bushes by hill stream, c. 5,500', 20.x. 1961 ; 

 1 <$, 5 ?• above Sangu, old mixed forest, c. 6,200', 25-28. x.1961 ; 1 $, ibid., damp 

 evergreen oak forest, c. 9,200', 2.26.XL1961 ; 4 ^, 17 $, ibid., mixed vegetation in 

 dried-up ravine, c. 6,800', 16. ii. 1962 ; 1 $, 2 $, below Sangu, by stream in shady 

 ravine, c. 6,000', 30. x.1961 ; 2 $, ibid., mixed vegetation on sheltered slopes above 

 river, c. 4,000', 3.1.1962 ; 1 $, 1 $, north of Sangu, dry grass above river bank, 

 c. 5,000', 5. i. 1962 ; 1 (J, 1 $, river banks below Tamrang Bridge, c. 5,500', x-xi.1961 

 {R.L.C.), BMNH. 



Closely resembles D. (S.) mommai Takada and Okada, i960 (Japan), in having 

 highly convex mesonotum and abdominal tergites, and in the general features of 

 phallic and periphallic organs, but distinguished from it in having genital arch less 

 prominently narrowing below, lateral lobes of aedeagus apically bifid (simple in 

 mommai), discal teeth of egg-guide only one (several in m.), and posterior scutellars 

 as long as anteriors and not upright (short and upright in m.). 



Drosophila (Sophophora) zonaria sp. n. 



(Text-figs. 232-237) 



o\ ?• Body about 1-7 mm. Head as broad as thorax. Eyes dark purplish red, thickly 

 pilose, somewhat fusiform in lateral aspect. Antennae with second segment orange-yellow ; 

 third yellowish grey, basally pale, and nearly twice as long as broad. Arista with about six 

 dorsal and three ventral branches and a small terminal fork. Palpus black, slender, with a few 

 strong ventral black setae. Ocellar triangle glossy black. Periorbit glossy pale brown, anteri- 

 orly broader and curved inward, not reaching anterior margin. Front glossy greyish brown, 

 parallel-sided, anterior one-third yellowish, anteriorly one and a half times as broad as length 

 down middle, posteriorly half as broad as head width. Face white, glossy. Carina white, high, 



