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yellow stripes, the middle one very short ; mesopleural stripe of medium size, not 

 extended along the suture ; two small hypopleural spots, the lower one being larger 

 and separated from the other by a broad black area (fig. 11.) ; mesophragma black. 

 Scutellum yellow, with black base. All the bristles are black, the scapulars very strong 

 and the anterior supra-alar well developed. Halteres yellowish. Abdomen like the 

 thorax, but the hind borders of the second and last segments are reddish yellow ; 



Fig. 11. Dacus disjundus, Bezzi, sp. n.; 

 . oblique posterior view of thorax, 

 to show the two hypopleural spots. 



venter black ; ovipositor very short, the basal joint tolerably swollen and reddish 

 brown or blackish. Front and middle femora yellow with the apical half brown ; 

 hind femora entirely yellow ; tibiae brownish black ; tarsi yellow, a little darkened 

 towards the end. Wings hyaline and with reduced pattern ; there is a dark yellowish 

 fore border not passing the third vein, and never reaching the apex, where there 



Fig. 12. Dacus disjuncius, Bezzi, sp. n. 



is an indistinct dark spot ; anal band rather broad at base, but not very dark ; 

 terminal portion of fourth vein bisinuous ; stigma a little more intensively yellow ; 

 small cross-vein sometimes faintly margined with luteous. 



Type $, and an additional specimen from Uganda, Entebbe, 17.viii.l911 

 (C. C. Gowdey). 



