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Abdomen yellow, marked with three imperfect black vittae which 

 sometimes dissolved into spots, ovipositor black. Legs pale yellow, 

 the tarsi except their bases brown. Wings hyaline, the first basal cell 

 above the second, the stigma, the marginal cell and narrow bonier to 

 the costa to slightly below the tip of the wing, brown ; anal cell and a 

 cloud on the apical portion of the sixth vein also brown. Length about 

 5 mm. 



Tonga Island, Polynesia. Two male and four female 

 specimens, bred from gnavas. Type Xo. 12.737, I'. S. Na- 

 tional Museum. 



Dacus virgatus n. sp. 



Very near facialis. but differing as follows: Thorax black, the hnmcri, 

 a stripe along the mesoplcural suture and one over the hypopleura. 

 bright yellow; mesonotum gray pruinosc except two vittae: scutcllum 

 yellowish, the sides brown. Black vittae of the abdomen broad and 

 continuous. Hind tibiae brown, the others tinged with brown. COM a 

 of the wings not bordered with brown beyond the stigma. Length 7 

 mm. 



Tonga Island, Polynesia. A female specimen bred from a 

 guava. Type No. 12.738, U. S. National Museum. 



Dacus melanotus n. sp. 



Head and its members yellow, the middle of the front, third antenn.d 

 joint, arista except at its base, the proboscis and palpi toward their 

 apices, brownish; upper half of the occiput largely black. Body black, 

 the humeri, a stripe along the mesopleural suture and one over the 

 hypopleura, yellow. Legs brown, the bases of some of the femora and 

 of the hind tarsi sometimes yellowish. Wings as in facialis. Length 

 about 7 mm. 



Cook Island, Polynesia. Two males and one female bred 

 from oranges. Type No. 12.739, ^ T - ^. National Museum. 



The American Exposition in Berlin during June. July and August 

 promises great things. J. Pierpont Morgan is the President and lli^ 

 Royal Highness, Prince Henry of Prussia, is Honorary President 

 the (ieruian Reception Committee. The Entomological Cong res 

 have some very distinguished personages as 1'atrons and Honorary 

 Presidents. The President of the Congres will he Prof. I an 

 President of the Belgian Entomological Society. All American en- 

 tomologists are invited to attend and become members of the C 

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