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A NEW FLY OF THE GENUS AGROMYZA FROM EGYPT. 
By JAMES E. COLLIN. 
Agromyza salicifolii, sp. n. 
Belonging to the reptans group ; thorax dark dove-grey with a faint greenish tinge ; 
abdomen dark green, shining ; legs entirely black; wings hyaline, iridescent, with pale 
veins, squame whitish with white fringes, halteres pale yellow with a darkened stem. 
G. Head in profile deeper than wide, frons not produced, eyes large, jowls at 
the lower angle of eye about equal in width to the length of third antennal joint, 
face and frons of a similar colour to thorax, frons longer than wide, sides 
parallel until opposite the antenne where they slightly converge, sides of the face 
gradually diverging ; face concave, with practically no keel or furrow, frontal 
lunule small, as in reptans ; antenne small, dull black, arista practically bare, palpi 
black, proboscis yellowish and yellow-haired, chaetotaxy of head as in reptans, 
but only four pairs of orbital bristles, the lowest pair converging, the minute hairs 
on ocellar triangle and along the eye-margins very inconspicuous. Thorax and 
pleure dark dove-grey with a faint greenish tinge, hardly shining, chaetotaxy as 
in reptans, but only two pairs of dorso-central bristles, the front one well developed 
and about in a line with the front supra-alar bristle ; in addition to the usual 
strong sternopleural bristle, one or two bristles in front of it are fairly well 
developed. Abdomen shining dark green, ovate, flattened, rather pointed in both 
sexes, evenly clothed with short black bristles which are rather longer on the 
hind margins of the segments. Legs entirely dull black, femora with blunt apical 
ends, front femora with a row of bristles behind, mid femora with a bristle 
behind at the tip, middle tibie with two bristles behind on the middle third. 
Wings (fig. 1) ample, hyaline, and iridescent, appearing whitish in some lights, 
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Fig. 1.—Wing of Agromyza salicifolii, S. x 30. 
all the veins yellowish especially towards the base of wing, the penultimate 
section of postical vein longer than the last section, anal angle and alula well 
developed. Squamz white with yellowish margins and short white fringes. 
Halteres with pale yellow knobs and brownish stems. 
