118 A MANUAL OF DANGEROUS INSECTS. 



larval stage 10 to 15 days inside fruit, after which it leaves the fruit and enters the 

 ground to pupate; pupal stage about a week. 

 Distribution: Bhagalpur and Lower Bengal, India. 



Basu and Dutt. Crop Pest Handbook for Behar and Orissa, including also Western 



Bengal, 1913, p. 74. 



Dacus psidil Froggatt. 



(South Sea Guava Fruit Fly. Trypetidae; Diptera.) 



Host: Guava, granadilla. 



Injury: Larvae feed in fruits. 



Description: Adult female, 6 mm. long, wing expanse 10 mm.; head light brown 

 with rich metallic purple eyes, antennae brownish black, with last joint black; thorax 

 black; abdomen black, elongate, and narrow at base. (See plate xxvii, figs, la, 2a, 

 a, 4a.) 



Distribution: Fiji, New Caledonia. 



Froggatt, W. W. Dept. Agric, New South Wales, Misc. Pub. 303, 1899. 

 Froggatt, W. W. Dept. Agric, New South Wales, Farmers' Bui. 24, 1909, p. 19. 

 Dacus (Tephrltes) xanthodes Broun. 

 (Broun's Fruit Fly. Trypetidae; Diptera.) 



Host: Pineapple, granadilla, guava, mammee apple, shaddock. 



Injury: Breeds in fruits. 



Description: Adult female, 9 mm. long, wing expanse 15 mm., general color pale 

 ochreous yellow; thorax with faint yellow dorsal stripe, and pale yellowish white 

 stripe margining each side and marking the sides of the scutellum; abdomen elongate 

 and truncate at apex. 



Distribution: Fiji. (Bred in New Zealand from fruit imported from Fiji.) 



Froggatt, W. W. Dept. Agric, New South Wales, Farmers' Bui. 24, 1909, p. 25. 



Bloxa musse Froggatt. 

 (The Island Fruit Fly. Trypetidae; Diptera.) 



Host: Banana, Sideroxylon (Achras) australe (black apple). 



Irijury: Larvae feed in bruised or blemished fruit. 



Description: Adult female, 6 mm. long, wing expanse 12 mm., head small, ochreous, 

 antennae yellow with long bristle at apex of second joint, thorax brownish yellow, 

 abdomen small, light brown at base, black on apical half, and covered with coarse 

 hairs. (See plate xxvni, figs. 1, 2.) 



Distribution: New Hebrides, Queensland, New South Wales. 



Froggatt, W. W. Dept. Agric, New South Wales, Misc. Pub. 303, 1899. 

 Froggatt, W. W. Dept. Agric, New South Wales, Farmers' Bui. 24, 1909, p. 54. 



GOOSEBERRY; CURRANT. 



(Ribes spp. Family Saxifragaceae.) 



Shrubs bearing small edible fruits; native to Europe, Asia, North America, and 

 South America. 



A. BETTER KNOWN GOOSEBERRY AND CURRANT INSECTS LIKELY TO BE 



IMPORTED. 



Eriophyes ribis Nalepa. 



(Currant Gall Mite. Erioph jddae ; Acarina.) 



Host: Infests especially the black currant (JRibes nigrum), but also R. rubruvi, and 

 R. alpinum. Certain varieties of black currant are preferred, as Baldwin, Black 

 Naples, Black Dutch, and Lee's Prolific. 



