CERIOIDES. 14). 
yellowish stripe; eyes dark brown, bare, meeting at a point in the 
middle of the frons, with facets of ‘equal size; ocelli close together, 
surrounded by a black spot; occipital upper border much produced, 
with a fringe of pale hair, which is continued below; frontal tri- 
angle clothed with short and soft white hair; face bare, lightly 
dusted with white pollen; proboscis black, with dark brown labella. 
Antennal petiole long and strong, of the same red colour as the 
head, antennz dark Tred, first and second joints of almost equal 
length; third joint pale yellowish, shorter than the second, whitish- 
dusted, with a terminal thin, acute style. Thorax black, dull, 
with short dark grey pubescence; shoulders and lateral stripes from 
them to the scutellum dark red; pleurze bare, the stripe which is 
yellow in hope? is here of a red, rather shining colour. Scutellum 
entirely yellow, narrowly reddish towards the base. Squamulee 
dark yellowish, with short whitish fringes; halteres pale yellow. 
Abdomen elongate, the petiole being as long as the oval expanded 
portion ; first segment bright yellow, with a quadrate dull black 
spot in the middle reaching the hind border, and with rather long 
pale hair ; second reddish brown, witha yellow, somewhat indistinct 
longitudinal stripe on each side, black towards the hind border ; 
third and fourth segments black, sparsely dusted with grey pollen, 
and clothed with very short black pubescence, the hind border of 
the third segment narrowly reddish towards the sides; genitalia 
red, clothed with short black hair; venter grey, clothed with short 
black hair. Coxe of the four anterior legs dark red, the fore tibiz 
above near the base each with a small and short yellow stripe, the 
tarsi slightly darkened; hind legs with brown cox, the femora 
narrowly blackish towards the base, and beyond the blackish area 
with a broad yellow ring, the apical third, the tibize, and the tarsi 
red. Wings with the costal border as far as the third vein of a 
yellowish- brown colour, becoming blackish at the tip; there is also 
a brown-yellowish border along the fifth longitudinal vein, dilated 
at the end and there extending over the apex of the second basal, 
and over the base of discal and third posterior cells ; kink in third 
vein flat and broad, without appendix ; subapical and postical cross- 
veins placed almost in the same line, with short appendices. 
Type 3,from Uganda Protectorate, Kafu River, between Hoima 
and Kampola, 3h 500 ft., 29-31. xu. 1911 (S. A. Neave) ; an ad- 
ditional specimen, between Jinja and Busia or M bwago’s, E. Busoga 
(‘some forest”), 8,800-4,000 ft., 28. vii—l. vill. 1911 (same 
collector ). 
Named in honour of the collector, who has made so many im- 
portant discoveries in the dipterous fauna of these Regions. 
144. Cerioides speiseri, Herné-Bazin (1913). 
A black species of very large size allied to C. brunnetpennis, Lw., 
but at once distinguished by the almost entirely black antenne and 
legs. 
To the present species is also allied C. congolensis, Bezzi, a short 
