TA SYRPHIDE. : 
70. Fhytomia fucoides, sp. n. 
Length of the body 15 mm. 
i his species unites the characters of the bullata-group with 
those of the zonata- -group, agreeing in shaj ve with natalensis, but 
not being yellow-banded ; it is disting uls shed by its black abdomen 
and by the w ings being pubescent on the basal half. 
Head black, erey pollinose, moderately shining; frons broad, 
gently rounded, “clothed with rather long ‘and e! losely -set yellowish 
hairs, which are dark towards the middle; occipital border almost 
bare, white below; supra-antennal area rather small, dark reddish, 
more deeply punctate than wrinkled; antenne short, blackish 
brown, the third joint rounded, with a reddish arista, \ which is 
plumose basally ; face broad, with short yellowish hairs, the tubercle 
rather prominent but rounded, the lateral keels rather distinct ; 
peristoma broad, shining black on the middle, yellowish pilose 
beneath ; opening of buccal cavity small; probosci s black; eyes 
small, purplish black, with (?) four bands. Thorax black, dark 
pollinose, dark reddish on the humeri, clothed on the dorsum with 
dense yellowish-red hairs, and on the plenre with paler hairs, though 
those on the mesopleure are black. Scutellum dull Black lone 
red towards the hind border, aaiveinba, and densely clothed with 
erect cinnamon-rufous heir; squamiule black and black-fringed ; 
halteres brownish; subalar callosity dark brownish. Abdomen 
dull black, somewhat shining towards the distal extremity; the 
hair is short and dense, longer towards the apex, coloured like that 
on the thorax, but darker on the middle and hind border of each 
segment. Legs black and clothed with similarly coloured hair, all 
the tibiz whitish towards the base, and there pale pilose ; tarsi 
dark red, those on the first pair short and broad. Wings hyaline, 
with typical venation, the basal half as far as the base of the 
discal cell appearing infuscated on account of its dense pubescence. 
Type 2, a single specimen from the Uganda Protectorate, Daro 
or Dae. Forest, ore, 4,000—4,500 ft., 25-29. ix. 1911 (S. A. 
Neave). 
There is in the collection a damaged female specimen, without a 
head, from Madagascar, Ambohimitombo, 26. 1.1895 (Dr. Morsyth 
Major), very like the present species, but distinguished by the 
second abdominal segment being yellow ish on the sides, and by the 
legs being quite black, except the tarsi which are bright orange. 
71. Phytomia (Eristalis) fronto, Loew (1858). 
A species resembling EF. tenaz, with hind tarsi of ordinary 
length, very broad black face, and frons densely clothed with long 
hairs. 
Described from Caffraria by Loew, and not recorded again till now. 
Typical specimens have the second abdominal segment yellow with 
a broad blac ‘k hind border and a short black transverse band on the 
fore border; the third and fourth segments are also yellow on the 
fore border. 
