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oval shape ; antennae light yellow, with the third joint darkened at the end ; palpi 

 and proboscis reddish yellow ; bristles black, three pairs of orbitals. Thorax dark 

 brown, black behind the suture and on the pleurae,with the following yellow markings : 

 humeral calU entirely ; a rather broad mesopleural stripe, continued above along the 

 suture to the dorso-central hne, and below in a very small spot on the sternopleurae ; 

 two rounded and contiguous hypopleural spots of medium size ; the whole scutellum 

 except the base. Halteres whitish ; mesophragma black. Abdomen red, with a 

 middle longitudinal black stripe and black spots on the sides of the segments ; the 

 second segment also having a less distinct yellowish hind border ; dark spots of fifth 



Fig. 14. Dacus ficicolat Bezzi, sp. n. 



segment sometimes wanting ; third segment ciUated ; venter reddish. All the 

 thoracic bristles are black ; only the external pair of scapulars is distinct. Legs reddish, 

 the base of posterior femora, the end of tibiae, and the base of tarsi broadly whitish 

 yellow. Wings narrow and long, hyahne, with the stigma, a spot on the end of third 

 vein and an anal streak, brown ; marginal cell darkened, but there is no distinct 

 dark border in the submarginal cell, or only a very narrow one, the apical spot being 

 therefore almost isolated ; terminal portion of fourth vein straight. 



Tjrpe ^ from Natal, Willow Grange, IT.iii. 1913 {R. C. Wroughton), and an additional 

 specimen of the same sex from N.W. Rhodesia, Chilanga, 19. ix. 1913, on wild fig 

 tree {R. C Wood). 



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