110 PROF. M. BEZZI. 



{T. B. Fletcher) ; Lyallpiir, Punjab, on bitter gourd {Momordica charantia), 24.x.- 

 1912 (T. B. Fletcher) ; Coimbatore, on melon and pumpkin {Cucurbita melo, C. pepo), 

 and on cucumbers {Cucumis) [T. B. Fletcher) ; Nagpur, Central India, in cucurbit 

 and in melon, v-vii.l910 (Ratiram) ; Taru, Peshawar Distr., larva in Momordica 

 charontia (T. B. Fletcher) ; Meiktila, Upper Burma, on gourd {Cucurbita ;/jej9o), 

 13-15. viii. 1914, Mandalay, on musk melon and on bitter gourd, 23. iv. 1909, 

 Pyinmana, on wild cucurbit, 7-9. ix. 1914, Tatkon, on cucurbit, 6-7. ix. 1914 (T. B. 

 Fletcher), and many specimens from the last-named locahty in fruits of Trichosanthes 

 cucumerina, 20. ix. 1914 {K. D. Shroff). All the specimens bred from fruits of Luffa 

 aegyptiaca have the hind cross- vein very narrowly margined with fuscous. 



15. Chaetodacus caudatus, F. (1805). 



Bactrocera caudata, Bezzi, Mem. Ind. Mus., iii, 1913, p. 97, pi. viii, fig. 8. 

 A large species, and veiy distinct, owing to its four scutellar bristles, three pairs of 

 lower fronto-orbital bristles and pecuHar wing pattern. In the Indian specimens 

 the wings have the hind cross-vein always in the condition described by Hendel for 

 his var. nubilus ; I have never seen specimens with that cross-vein entirely margined 

 with fuscous, and I think that Wiedemann has mixed up the present species with the 

 preceding one. 



Dehra Dun, on grass, 16. v. 1912 {Prof. A. D. hums) ; Shevaroy Hills, 5,000 ft., 

 14-22 . X . 1912 (T. 5. Fletcher) ; Coimbatore, on skaki gourd, 29 . x . 1908 ; Bababudin 

 Hills, Mysore, 4-5000 ft., 2-12. xi. 1912, a specimen with the femora broadly black 

 at the end (T. B. Fletcher) ; Lashio, 3,000 ft., and Tatkon, Upper Burma, the larva 

 in fruits of Trichosanthes palmata, viii-ix.l914, Myitkyina, on pomelo {Citrus 

 decumana) 30. viii. 1914, Taung-gyi, Southern Shan States, 4,000 ft., 1. iii. 1910 

 (T. B. Fletcher and A'. B. Shroff). 



16. Chaetodacus garciniae, Bezzi (1913). 



Bactrocera garciniae, Bezzi, Mem. Ind. Mus., iii, 1913, p. 97, pi. viii, fig. 9. 



I have now seen other specimens of this species, bred at Peradenyia, Ceylon, from 

 Garcinia fruits {E. E. Green). 



This species has an isolated position in the present genus, and forms a link with 

 the genus Mellesis owing to the face not being hollowed and the lack of the usual 

 sexual dimorphism in the structure of the wing. 



17. Chaotodacus scutellarius, sp. nov. 



A very distinct species, strongly recalling maculipennis, Dol., but at once dis- 

 tinguished by the scutellum bearing only the apical pair of bristles and a well defined 

 black spot at the end. 



5- Length of body (with the ovipositor), 6 mm. 



Occiput shining black, with a broad yellow border, which is not dilated below ; 

 frons pale yellowish, white-dusted, darkened on the middle band but without a 

 definite central spot, with three pairs of dark brown dots at the sides, the apical one 

 of which is united with the dark lunula to form a transverse band above the root of 

 antennae ; ocellar spot shining black, and in contact with a black spot on each side, 

 thus forming a transverse black band on the vertex ; face pale yellow, shining, with 



