Australian Fruit Flies — HARDY 149 
Fig. 13. Dacus {Strumeta) bryoniae (Tryon): a, ovipositor, full length; b, apex of ovipositor. 
about 0.65 mm. of the base of the eighth 
segment. 
TYPE locality: Blackall Range, Brisbane 
District. Reared from Bryonia lacinosa. 
Type in the Queensland Museum. 
Six specimens are in the collection reared 
from the above host, from near Deeral, 
Queensland, June, 1949. Tryon says it is also 
associated with Melothria cunninghamn. 
Dacus (Strumeta) cacuminatus (Hering) 
Fig. 14^-^ 
Strumeta cacuminata Hering 1941. Mus. Nat. 
Hung., Ann. 34: 46-47. 
Chaetodacus dorsalis Tryon, nec. Hendel, 1927. 
Roy. Soc. Queensland, Proc. 38(14): 194- 
196. 
Strumeta solani Perkins and May 1949. Univ. 
of Queensland, Dept. Biol. 2(14): 14-16. 
This species has been treated many times 
in the Australian literature and much con- 
fusion has been centered around its nomen- 
clature. It has commonly been known as the 
"Solanum fly” because of its apparent host 
specificity for two species of Solanum. It has 
appeared in the literature under the specific 
names dorsalis^ ferruginous, tryoni, and solani. 
The name solani was used by several of the 
earlier workers (Jarvis, 1922 and 1926^; 
Froggatt, 1924; Perkins and Hardy, 1925) in 
