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NOTES ON FRUIT-FLIES (TKYPETID^) WITH 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES, 



By Walter W, Froggatt, F.L.S. 



Since the distribution of my Report dealing with these pests 

 (Official Report, 1907-8; Fruit-Flies), I have received a great 

 many letters, and specimens from different parts of the world, 

 where fruit-flies are found; and I have thus obtained a great 

 deal of interesting material to examine for my correspondents. 



I am indebted to Mr. C. C. Gowdey, for a fine series of 

 Ceratitis punctata from Entebbe, Uganda, where it is a pest 

 upon cocoa. Mr. Dupont, Curator of the Botanic Gardens at 

 Mahi, Seychelles, lias sent me Ceratitis catoirei bred from 

 oranges. Mr. J. J. Fletcher has obtained a new and very hand- 

 some species of Ceratitis from the fruits of a West Australian 

 Loranthus. Mr. P. Keenig, Director of Forests and Gardens at 

 St. Louis, Mauritius, sent me a series of Dacus signioides, the 

 common pest of melons. Mr. H. H. King, of the Gordon College, 

 Khartoum, has sent me several new species from Egypt; and Dr. 

 Roepke others from Java. During my visit to the Solomon 

 Islands, last year, I captured a number of specimens of a species 

 of Dacus, identified by Mr. Coquillet as D. zouatus Saund., and 

 other specimens of this species were given to me, from Murray 

 Island. I am indebted to Profes.sor Bezzi, of Turin, and to Mr. 

 D. W. Coquillet, of Washington, for the determination of several 

 of my specimens; and to the former, and to Mr. P. L. Lounsbury, 

 of Cape Town, S. Africa, for named specimens. Mr. T. Kirk, of 

 New Zealand, has also sent me some curious forms, obtained 

 from fruit imported from the Pacific Islands. 



