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(i) Dacus cuairbitae Coquillett. 



Dacus cucurbitac Qo(\mV\.&\.\., Ent. News Philad. 1899, p. 129. 



" Head light yellow, the occiput, except the sides and upper margin, reddish-yellow, 

 an ocellar black dot, front marked with a brown spot in front of its center and with three 

 pairs of orbital brown dots, a black spot on each side of the face near the middle and a 

 brown spot on the middle of each cheek ; antennae, palpi and proboscis yellow, the 

 latter mottled with brown. Thorax reddish-yellow, the humeri, a median vitta on 

 the posterior half of the mesonotum, another on each side above the insertion of the 

 wings, uniting with an irregular band which extends upon the pleura to the upper part 

 of the sternopleura, also a large spot on each side of the metanotum, encroaching upon 

 the hypopleura, light yellow ; scutellum, except its extreme base, light yellow, bearing 

 two bristles. Abdomen light yellow on first two segments, reddish-yellow on the others, 

 the extreme base, a fascia at the bases of the second and third segments, usually a 

 lateral spot on the fourth and fifth, also a dorsal vitta on the last three segments, blackish 

 or brownish ; first segment of the ovipositor of the female slightly longer than the fifth 

 segment of the abdomen. Wings hyaline, the apex of the subcostal cell from a short 

 distance in front of the apex of the auxiliary vein, the marginal and submarginal cells, 

 the median third of the first basal cell and a large spot in upper outer corner of the first 

 posterior cell, brown ; anal cell brown, this color encroaching on the third posterior cell 

 and bordering the sixth vein almost to its apex ; posterior crossvein bordered with 

 brown, this color extending to the hind margin of the wing ; upper end of the small 

 crossvein also bordered with brown. Halteres light yellow. Legs light yellow, the 

 broad apices of the femora and the last four joints of the tarsi reddish-yellow, hind tibiae 

 reddish-yellow or dark brown. Length 6 to 8 mm." 



Hab. Oahu. — "Honolulu, Hawaii. Two males and two females bred by Mr George 

 Compere from larvae living in green cucumbers. Type No. 4207, U. S. Nat. Museum." 



Five specimens of this species are also recorded from Hawaii by L. O. Howard 

 (Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. iv. no. 4, p. 490, July 1901). 



Tephritis Latreille. 

 ( I ) Tcplwitis crassipes. 



Trypeia crassipes Thorns., Eugen. Resa. p. 583, n. 260 (186S). 



Hab. Hawaii, one male, Kona, 4000 ft., July 1892 ; one female, Kona, 



4000 ft., September 1892. — -Kauai, one female, 2000^3000 ft., Jan. — Feb. 1S97. — 



Oahu, one female, Waianae Mts., 3000 ft., April 1892. All agree exactly with 

 Thomson's description. 



