itiS W. M. GRAHAM — 



beneath each eye. Eyes in life purple, with a blue-green iridescence. 

 Antennse pale brown, the third joint darker externally and at the tip ; arista 

 brown, with pale base. Palpi and proboscis yellow. Thorax dark brown, 

 paler at margins, covered wdth a greyish tomentum and with three slightly 

 divergent dark stripe varying in distinctness in different specimens. Behind 

 the transverse suture the median line is occupied by a canary-yellow stripe 

 not reaching the scutellum and sometimes indistinct ; on each side of it is a 

 curved yellow stripe, not reaching the scotellum. Scutellum yellow, with 

 two black bristles. Pleura brown, crossed by a broad yellow band from the 

 end of the transverse suture to the sternopleura_, where it ends as a small 

 spot. Hypopleura w^ith two canary-yellow spots of nearly equal size. 

 Abdomen dark bi'own, spheroidal ; first segment with a very narrow apical 

 transverse yellow band ; second segment with a transverse broad yellow band 

 occupying apical half; an indistinct dorso-median dark line on the third, 

 fourth and fifth segments, and two paler, somewhat depressed, areas upon the 

 apex. A^enter with the basal half pale, the apical half brown, and with four 

 brown median spots. Legs with the coxso dark brown ; femora yellow,. with 

 the apical half brown on the fore and mid pairs and the apical third brown 

 on the hind pair ; tibiae brown ; first tarsal joint yellow, remaining joints 

 brown. Wim/s hyaline,, with dark brow^n veins. A broad brown' band 

 extends along the costa to the tip of the third vein, expanding so as to fill the 

 anterior half of the first posterior cell ; a brown band covers the anal cell 

 and overflows into the third posterior cell. Halteres with semitransparent 

 greyish knobs and yellow stems. 



? . Ovipositor shiny brown, cylindrical, with dilated base as long as last 

 two abdominal segments. - 



Length of body 8'5-9 mm., wing 8 mm. 



S ' 12 to IG black bristles upon the apical lateral margins of the third 

 segment. 



Length of body 7-5-8 mni., wing 7 mm. 



7}/pe in the British Museum. 



I have retained for this species the MIS. name given to it by Walker in the 

 British Museum collection. 



Dacus flavicrus, sp. n. (PI. XII, fig. 4.) 



Brown ; head yellow ; thorax dark brown, with black markings and yellow 

 bands on the transverse suture ; scutellum yellow ; abdomen brown, with a 

 black dorso-median line. All femora and 1st tarsal joints yellow ; tibia? and 

 tarsi brown. Wings hyaline, with narrow brown costal and anal bands. \ 



$ . Head : Occiput pale brown with }'ellow orbits ; front yellow, lower 

 end brownish, with 3 pairs of brown orbital spots, a brown spot on the frontal 



