TP^f.oc 73 Vol. 73, pp. 107-1 IS 30 December I960 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON NOTES ON SOME NORTH AMERICAN TEPHRITIDAE, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW GENERA AND TWO NEW SPECIES (DIPTERA) By Richard H. Foote Entomology Research Division, ARS, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. This paper comprises some notes and descriptions accumu-lated during a compilation of a definitive catalog of North American Tephritidae. Included are the descriptions of Meta-tcphritis fenestrate,, n. gen., n. sp.; the genus Mylogymnoca-rcna, n. gen., for Urellia apicata Thomas; and Gymnocarena hicolor, n. sp. Eutreta aurantiaca Doane is placed in the genus Xenochaeta; a first United States record for Acrotaenia test-udinea (Lw. ) is given; and the genera Gymnocarena, Oedica-renc, and Zonosemata are discussed. Assistance was received from M. T. James, Washington State University, Pullman; R. B. Lattimore and E. W. Jackson, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Brownsville, Texas; C. W. Sabro-sky, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C; and H. V. Weems, Jr., State Plant Board of Florida, Gainesville. The collections of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cam-bridge, Massachusetts, and the U. S. National Museum were indispensable. Acrotaenia testudinea ( Loew) 1 Fig. 1 ) Trypeta testudinea Loew, 187.), Smiths. Misc. Coll. 1.1(256): 272; pi. XI, Fig. 13. Acrotaenia testudinea: Loew. L873, Smiths. Misc. Coll. Ll(256): 274. — Hendel, L914, Abh. u. Ber. Anthmp.-Ktlm. Mus. Dresden (1 ( )12) 1 i; 59.— Bates, 1933, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 28: L64.— Bates, L934, Rev. de Ent. 4: 9.— Aczel, L949, \<ta Zool. Lilloana 7: 289. 18— Pboc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 73, I960 ( 107) m&v
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