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segment moderately stout; dorsal plate short, broad, triangularly emar- 

 ginate, the lobes broadly rounded, sparsely setose ; ventral plate short, 

 broad, triangularly emarginate, the lobes truncate, sparsely setose ; 

 style short, stout, tapering. 



Female. Length 2 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the bod}-, rather 

 thickly haired, fuscous yellowish; 14 segments, the fifth with a stem 

 about one-quarter the length of the cylindric basal enlargement, which 

 latter has a length four times its diameter, is rather strongly constricted 

 near the basal third; subbasal whorl sparse, subapical whorl scattering, 

 smooth ; circumfili rather strongly arched near the basal third and apic- 

 ally; terminal segment cylindric, with a length three times its diameter 

 and a slender conical apex. Palpi yellowish, the first segment short, 

 stout, the second subquadrate, with a length two and a half times its 

 diameter, the third one-half longer, more slender, the fourth a little 

 longer and more slender than the third. Mesonotum reddish brown. 

 the submedian lines thickly haired. Scutellum orange yellowish, thickly 

 haired, postscutellum dark reddish brown. Abdomen mostly dark 

 brown, the segments rather thickly haired posteriorly, incisures and 

 pleurae deep orange. Ovipositor yellowish, nearly as long as the ab- 

 domen when extended, the terminal lobes slender, tapering to a 'nar- 

 rowly rounded, coarsely setose apex. Wings hyaline, costa fuscous yel- 

 lowish, subcosta uniting therewith at the basal half, the third vein just 

 before the apex. Halteres yellowish orange. Legs mostly dark brown, 

 the coxae and femora basally yellowish; claws long, slightly curved, 

 simple, the pulvilli nearly as long as the claws. 

 Type Cecid., 21,975, N. Y. State Museum. 



Three New Trypetidae from the Pacific Islands. 



By D. W. COQUILLETT. 



The following- new species were received from Mr. Edward 

 K. Carnes the Horticultural Examiner, at Sacramento, Cali- 

 fornia. 



Dacus facialis n sp. 



Near oleac but the face unspotted in the male, while in the female 

 the two antennal furrows are wholly black, in both there is no brown 

 spot at the tip of the third vein, etc. Head opaque yellow, the middle 

 of the front, the third antennal joint and the arista except at the base, 

 brownish; an irregular blackish spot above the center of the occiput. 

 Thorax yellow, the mesonotum except its sides black, gray pruinose 

 except three vittae; a black spot on the pteropleura and one on lower 

 part of the sternopleura; metanotum except its sides black, the middle 

 usually yellowish; scutellum yellow, usually a median brown villa. 



