BY W. W. FROGGATT. 8(59 



In a paper entitled " Four new Dipterous Insects from Central 

 and Northern India," Saunders proposed the genus Dasynetira 

 for the I'eception of this fruit-fly. I am indebted to Mr. Coquillet 

 for identifying my species from the Solomon Islands, as the one 

 found in Central India, so many years ago. 



It is very variable in the colouration of the abdomen, but the 

 dorsal stripe on the lower half of the abdomen is constant, if at 

 times indistinct. Saunders describes the general colour as 

 " reddish-brown," but the dorsal surface of the thorax of all my 

 specimens from India, Ceylon, and the Solomon Islands, is 

 decidedly black, with silvery pubescence. 



Dacus pepisal^, n.sp. 



(J. Length 12 mm. 



Head ochreous; eyes dark reddish-brown; antenna© mottled 

 with black; arista black; two large spots below the antennae, a 

 blotch on the front above, which envelops the first pair of lateral 

 spots, two spots on either side above, and the area round the 

 ocelli, black. Thorax black, with an indistinct pattern of silvery 

 pubescence on the dorsal surface; humeri small, yellow, in contact 

 with upper edge of nude area on mesopleura, which extends to 

 the base of the middle trochanters; a small wedge-shaped nude 

 yellow area in the median suture on either side joins a dorsal 

 stripe on the sides of the mesothorax, which does not reach the 

 hind margin; a double oval patch on either side of the hypo- 

 pleura bright yellow; scutellum ochreous; truncate at apical 

 margin. Legs yellow, mottled with brown. Wings large, 

 clouded so thickly with yellowish-brown tliat only the first basal 

 cell, a transverse stripe behind it, the centre of the first posterior 

 and the anal cell are transparent. Abdomen ochreous, covered 

 with fine golden pubescence; the whole of the first segment, a fine 

 broken band across the second, and the outer third of the sides 

 of the third and fourth with a fine central stripe, and the whole 

 of the anal segment, black. 



Chsetotactic characters, — The dark reddish-black 

 blotch on the front above the antennae is convex, and covered 



