. Fig. 3. Sapromyza striata, n. sp., wing. Legs all yellow. Front: femora with conspicuous rows of spines on the lower and hind sides. Middle : femora with a row of five spines on the front side at the tip ; tibiae with a crown of spines at the tip. All the legs have the usual covering of small bristly hairs. Abdomen. Yellow, the boundaries of the segments edged with black, the edging of all but the third segment being marginal, that of the third somewhat remote from the margin. A black and slightly interrupted median line runs along the dorsum of the third to the fifth segments joining each t
. Fig. 3. Sapromyza striata, n. sp., wing. Legs all yellow. Front: femora with conspicuous rows of spines on the lower and hind sides. Middle : femora with a row of five spines on the front side at the tip ; tibiae with a crown of spines at the tip. All the legs have the usual covering of small bristly hairs. Abdomen. Yellow, the boundaries of the segments edged with black, the edging of all but the third segment being marginal, that of the third somewhat remote from the margin. A black and slightly interrupted median line runs along the dorsum of the third to the fifth segments joining each transverse black line to the base of the segment. Size, excluding the antennae, 4£ mm. Localities. Seychelles. Silhouette: near Mt. Pot-a-eau, about 1500 ft., VIII. 1908; Mare aux Cochons and forest above, IX. 1908. Mahe : high damp forest between Trois Freres and Morne Seychellois, about 1500—2000 ft., XII. 1908. Praslin : Cotes d'Or Estate, XL 1908. Felicite: forest, XII. 1908. Note. This species must be closely related to Lauxania (Sapromyza) bilineata Speiser, Wiss. Ergebnisse d. Schwed. Zool. Exp. nach dem Kilimandjaro, Dipt. p. 173. The next two species are structurally very similar as regards shape of head, nature of chaetotaxy, size, etc. The principal difference is in the antennae.
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