PROTYLOCERA.—PHYTOMIA. 65 
very great size, swollen, rounded, dark reddish, asymmetrical, pro- 
longed to the middle of the venter below, and there with a strong, 
cylindrical, projecting piece. Legs short and strong, blackish 
brown, the four anterior femora more reddish; front cox very long 
and broad, yellow, grey-dusted, and the piece before them also vellow, 
yellowish pilose, with a row of six short but strong black spines ; 
all the legs are clothed with short black hair; hind femora thick 
and short, almost arcuate, at the base below with a strong and 
black conical tubercle, which is’ blunt and clothed with short 
black hairs; hind tibie short and broad, bent at the base; tarsi 
broad and flattened ; claws red, with black tips. Wings coloured 
as in nigrita ; stalk of the marginal cell rather long, the subcostal 
cell, therefore, longer than the marginal; kink in the third vein 
deep, but rounded and not appendiculated; discal cell with a 
long stump at the lower angle; anal cell dilated towards the 
middle. 
Type 3, a single old and damaged specimen, from Betsileo, 
Madagascar (Rev. D. Cowan). 
Genus 12. PHYTOMITA, Guérin (1833). 
The very numerous Ethiopian species can be divided into three 
groups. The first, or ballata- group, resembling the Oriental 
crassa-group, contains the more striking and characteristic African 
species. The second, or natalensis-group, recalling the Oriental 
zonata-group, embraces the yellow-and-black banded species, the 
new species fucotdes forming a link with the next group. The 
third, or ¢neisa-group, very like the cosmopolitan Evistalis tenax in 
general appearance, seems to be peculiar to the Ethiopian Region, 
and can be divided into two smaller groups, viz. (1) the species 
with broad black face and black peristoma, and (2) the species 
with narrower yellowish face and usually yellow peristoma. These 
last species approach the genus Simoddes ; villipes, Loew, was 
described as a member of the latter genus, but I place it here on 
account of its wings being without any pubescence. The male is 
yet unknown. 
It seems that many species of Ethiopian Phytomia, if not all, 
have the eyes adorned with dark horizontal bands, which are 
however, much less distinct than in Lr/stalodes, in which. besides, 
the bands are perpendicular. 
The very numerous species in the collection can be distinguished 
as follows :— 
1 (20) Body short and broad, thick, very different 
from that of Lristalis tenav both in shape 
and coloration. 
2 (15) Abdomen with more or less distinct bullre 
(2.e. rounded prominent tubercles). 
(14) Arista plumose ; abdominal bulle well de- 
veloped, very prominent. 
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