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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW FRUIT-FLY OF THE GENUS 

 DAGUS FROM NEW SOUTH WALES. 



By D. W. Coquillet, Washington, U.S.A. 

 (Communicated by Walter W. Froggatt.) 



For the opportunity of describing specimens of this interesting 

 fruit-fly, one of the largest species of the genus, I am indebted to 

 Mr. Froggatt. These were collected by Mr. A. T. Hunter, one of 

 the Orchard Inspectors, just before Mr. Froggatt left for the United 

 States last year. The type is retained in the National Museum 

 Collection at Washington, and the cotype is in the Entomological 

 Collection of the Department of Agriculture of New South Wales. 

 Another is in the collection of the Entomological Division of the 

 Imperial Research Institute at Pusa, India. 



Dacus ^qualis, n.sp. 



Near D. longicornis Wiedemann, from Java, but differing from 

 the description in having the occiput chiefly reddish-brown, 

 instead of yellowish, the pleura with two yellow streaks instead 

 of black ones, the anal cell brown, etc. The evenness of the 

 costal brown area of the wings, which is bounded by the costa 

 and fourth vein, will serve to distinguish the present species from 

 most of the others. Reddish-brown, front mottled with yellow, 

 face yellow, an elongated black mark on each side; cheeks, margin 

 of occiput, humeri, a streak extending along the mesothoracic 

 suture each side and crossing the mesopleura, a large spot on the 

 hypopleura, the scutellum except its base, halteres, sides and 

 hind margin of the second segment of the abdomen, narrow hind 



