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beset with black bristles ; feelers ferruginous, full as long as the face, third 

 joint linear, slender, pitchy towards the tip, more than four times the length of 

 the second ; bristles slender, black, bare, tawny towards the base, much longer 

 than the third joint ; chest covered with whitish bloom ; abdomen linear 

 tawny towards the base beneath, much longer and narrower than the chest ; 

 legs ferruginous, clothed with very short black hairs ; feet pitchy towards 

 the tips : claws black ; foot cushions tawny ; wings slightly grey, brown along 

 the fore border from near one-third of the length to the tip ; middle and 

 lower cross veins clouded with brown, which has the -darkest hue on the 

 former ; wing ribs ferruginous, veins pitchy, ferruginous towards the base, 

 longitudinal veins nearly straight ; middle cross vein very oblique, lower cross 

 vein nearly upright, parted by little less than its length from the middle cross 

 vein by much more than its length from the tip of the wing, and by little 

 more than one-fourth of its length from the hind border ; poisers^ pale 

 tawny ; length of body, 2f lines; of the wings, 5 lines." 



Habitat Port Essington, North Australia (Gould's Collection). 



Dacus longistylus, Wiedernann. 

 (Auss. Zweifl., Vol. ii, p. 522, Plate X, fig. 1, 1828-30.) 



Wiedemann says : " General colour dull reddish, with the thorax spotted, 

 scutellum very pale yellow. Abdomen yellow, banded ; wings, marked at 

 the apex with dusky brown.'' 



Length, 3J lines. Habitat Egypt. 



There are a number of specimens determined by Loew in the K. K. Hof- 

 museum at Vienna under this name that were collected in Cairo, Egypt, 

 1858. In the Royal Museum of Hungary, at Budapest, there are other 

 specimens labelled Assouan, Egypt. Though this is a common species in 

 Egypt, I did not find any specimens in the departmental collections when 

 going through them with Mr. Willcocks. The species from the Soudan, 

 described by Theobald, is closely allied, and may be identical with this 

 species. 



I made the following rough notes on this species in the Vienna Museum : 

 " Rather bright reddish-brown, with the nude patches on the shoulders, the 

 angular nude patches on the sides of the mesonotum in front of the wings, 

 and the scutellum bright yellow. The abdomen reddish-brown with three 

 transverse yellow bands. Wings hyaline, with dusky band along the costal 

 cells." 



Habitat Egypt. 



Dacus maculiger, Doleschall. 



(Natuurk. Tidjschr van Nederl, Indie, Vol. XVII, 122, 79 [Bactrocera 



maculiger].) 



This is a very distinct species, originally described from Amboina. There 

 are four specimens labelled "Collected Thorey, Cape York, 1868," in the 

 K. K. Naturhistor Hofrauseum at Vienna, but Dr. Handlirsch informed me 

 that the locality might not be exact, as Thorey was a dealer, and the speci- 

 mens had probably been bought from him. They appear to be very close to 

 the typical specimen, and are labelled by Loew (who determined many of the 

 diptera in this museum) Dazyneura zonala, Saund., or maculiger, Dol. 



Head and thorax yellow, dorsal surface of the thorax curiously patterned 

 in slate-grey, forming a large patch in the centre truncate behind the he ad, 



