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forking into a bar on eifcher side, vdth the hind portion produced into two 

 bars running to the sides behind. Abdomen yellow, with a narrow brown 

 band at the base, below which, across the middle, a broader band encircles it 

 with a well-defined parallel band running down the centre of the apical 

 segments to the anal extremity. Legs yellow, mottled with brown. The 

 wings hyaline, with the exception of the clouded margin at the tip, and an 

 oblique stripe in a line with the body. 



In the specimens said to come from Cape York the colours are darker, but 

 th^ yellow markings on the front and sides of thorax and scutellum are 

 brighter yellow. 



Habitat Amboina. 



Dacus puiictalifrons, Karsch. 

 (Entomologische Nachrichten, Vol. XIII, p. 8, 1887.) 



" General colour reddish-brown to dull brown, clothed with short grey 

 pubescence. The face yellow, punctate in front, marked on each side with 

 three large black spots ornamenting the antennae below on each Fide ; 

 antennae elongate ; legs reddish-brown ; thorax on each side striated, shoulders 

 shining pale yellow ; scutellum pale yellow ; abdomen ovate, the dorsal 

 surface of the hind margin of the second segment yellow, the remaining 

 segments yellow in the centre with the anal segment short and brown ; wings 

 hyaline, costa banded to the last nervure brownish, transverse nervure small, 

 apparently brown on the edge. Length, 8 mm." 



Habitat Pangi Andongo. 



Dacus caudatus, Fabricius. 



(Syst. Antl. 276, 16, 1805; Wiedemann, Auss. Zweifl., 11, 518, 8, 1828-30; 

 Walker, List Diptera, British Museum, IV, 1073, 1848-55.) 



This species is described from Java. There is a specimen in Mr. Verrall's 

 collection under this name. 



It is a rather small species, of a general light yellow colour, with indistinct 

 dark yellow spots and marks on the thorax, the scutellum prominent ; 

 abdomen yellow, crossed with two narrow transverse black bands above, with 

 a tine line of the same colour forming a dorsal stripe from the base to the 

 tip of the abdomen with an irregular blotch on either side. The hyaline 

 wings with a dark costal stripe, with two irregular spots below crossing the 

 wing. 



Wiedemann says : '* General colour yellow, thorax mottled with yellow and 

 black, abdomen marked with black stripes, and a band ; wings and costa 

 with an oblique short stripe and bands of brown. Length : Male, 5J lines; 

 female, 4 lines. Habitat Java." 



Fabricius : D. caudatus yellow ; thorax greyish, with a yellow spot ; wings 

 hyaline, with the curved bases black." 



As large as D. sfylafi ; head yellow ; front of face spotted with black ; 

 thorax greyish ; nude patches on shoulders, lateral lines, and hind margin 

 of the scutellum yellow ; abdomen oval, yellow, with a stripe of black in 

 the centre ; ovipositor elongated ; wings white hyaline ; costa clouded, base 

 with clear markings, and, moreover, curved to the black base. 



