Cycasia oculata, Malloch, 1942

Mailoch, J. R., 1942, Trypetidae, Otitidae, Helomyzidae, And Clusiidae of Guam (Diptera), Insects of Guam I, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, pp. 201-210 : 203

Cycasia oculata , new species ( fig. 1 ).

Male. Fulvous or orange yellow, thorax and abdomen glossy, wings with brownish yellow fasciae. Head from in front wider than high, in profile a little higher than long; frons at vertex about four fifths as wide as long, much narrowed in front. Third antennal segment about 2.5 times as long as second. Gena about one eighth as high as eye. All bristles and hairs yellow. Thorax with a whitish yellow line over humeri and extending baclnvard along upper margin of pleura to bases of wings; scutellum also much paler than mesonotum, which is undusted, and there is a black dot at anterior extremity of the postalar declivities. Mesonotal hairs short, rather dense, and yellow; bristles yellow. Wing as.in figure 1 . Abdomen broadly ovate, not longer than thorax, convex on dorsum. Length, 4 mm.

Mt. Chachao, May 16, ex Cycas , type and one paratype, Swezey ; Piti, Aug. 24, one paratype, Swezey ; Agat , May 31, one paratype, Swezey ; Passan , June 15, one paratype, Usinger; Guam, no other data, one male paratype, Fullaway.

Figures

FIGURE 1.-vVing of C31casia oculata.