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whitish tomentose stripe ; scutellum yellow ; pectus with a huge 

 pale yellow spot on each side ; legs testaceous ; wings vitreous, with 

 a brown costal stripe which extends round the tip to the end of 

 the praebrachial vein ; prsebrachial transverse vein clouded with 

 brown ; radial vein very near the costa ; praebrachial vein slightly 

 curved between its tip and the discal transverse vein ; the latter 

 straight, upright, parted by less than one-fourth of its length from 

 the border, and by a little less than its length from the pr^bra- 

 chial transverse, which is slightly oblique. 



Length of the body 3| lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 

 Natal. 



Dacus incisits, 

 Niger, capite fulvo, thoracis vittis duabus lateralibus posticis, 

 callis humeralibus, scutello, pectoris flisciis duabus maculisqiie 

 duabus lateralibus, necnon abdominis basi et segmenti 1' 

 margine postico flavis, ventre testaceo vitia nigrd, femoribus 

 posticis tarsisque anterioribus basi, tarsisque posticis flavis, 

 tibiis anticis fulvis, alis vitreis, vitta costali nigra. 

 Black : head tawny; thorax with a yellow stripe on each side 

 hindward ; humeral calli and scutellum yellow ; pectus with a 

 yellow, slightly oblique band, and with a posterior yellow spot on 

 each side ; abdomen yellow at the base, and with a yellow band 

 on the hind border of the first segment ; this band is excavated in 

 the middle of the fore border ; underside testaceous, with a black 

 stripe which widens much hindward ; anterior tarsi yellow towards 

 the base ; fore tibiae tawny ; hind tarsi yellow ; hind femora yel- 

 low for half the length from the base ; wings vitreous, with a 

 slender black costal stripe which extends to the tip ; structure of 

 the veins like that of/), brev'istriga. 



Length of the body 2| lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 

 Burmah. 



Dacus squalldus. 

 Obscure testaceus, sub-pubescens, vertice nigricante, antennis 

 fulvis longiusculis, thoracis disco fulvo, alis inaculis duabus 

 costalibus sub-cinereis. 

 Mas. — Abdomine nigricante compresso. 



Fcem. — Abdominis dimidio apicali ferrugineo depresso nitente. 

 Dull testaceous, somewhat pubescent : vertex of the head 

 blackish ; face oblique, with two grooves for the reception of the 

 antennae ; the latter tawny, extending to tlie epistoma ; second 

 joint rather long; third slightly narrower towards the tip; disk 

 of the thorax tawny ; wings with a greyish costal spot before the 



