234 Records of the Indian Museum. Yoru. 2s 
ash greyish. A fringe of long yellowish grey wavy hairs placed 
transversely in front of the wings. 
Abdomen blackish ; 2nd segment nearly wholly orange red- 
dish, the colour encroaching on base of 3rd segment, whilst in 
the @ the posterior border is also reddish. Extreme tip of abdo- 
men orange red. Whole abdomen with short greyish pubescence, 
which is a little longer at the sides. Belly blackish, with grey 
pubescence, dull orange reddish for a considerable space about the 
2nd segment. 
Legs simple but somewhat strong, the femora having small 
spines below, towards the tips; black, with fairly dense greyish 
pubescence. Trochanters, base and tips of tibiae, orange yellow. 
The underside of the hind tarsi (of which the metatarsus is dis- 
tinctly though not greatly enlarged), brownish yellow, and the 
upper side of the 2nd and 3rd joints is brown in the ~. In the 
@ the first three joints of the middle tarsi are orange yellow, as 
is the whole middle tarsus in the 9. The exact limits of the pale 
colour in the tarsi is probably variable. 
Wings pale yellowish grey, stigma yellowish, subcostal cell 
up to the stigma, brownish; a barely obvious suffusion immedi- 
ately before and below the stigma. Halteres pale orange. 
Described from a single ~ and @ in the Indian Museum 
from Matiana taken by Dr. Annandale. 
It has been rather difficult satisfactorily to place the present 
species generically. It has every appearance of a Chilosia, even to 
the eye margins, which are quite as distinct as in many species of 
that genus. But Chilosta should have no trace of pale markings, 
so that the nearly all orange red 2nd abdominal segment would 
throw it out. Considering the species as of the Syrphinae, it works 
down by Verrall’s table of genera to Chrysochlamys, a genus 
which it is totally unlike in facies, colour, the shape of the closed 
Ist posterior cell and in the absence of the thoracic and scutellar 
bristly hairs. 
If the exact position of the anterior cross-vein is not regarded 
as an absolute character, and Verrall doubted its inviolability,! it 
becomes a Mytolepta, which that author puts in the Milesinae, 
considering its affinities with Tvopidia greater than those with 
Syrphinae, and he speaks of the genus as of ‘‘ rather doubtful 
location.’’ He says the femora are all swollen, and serrate near 
the tips below, but as Schiner gives the femora as simply “‘ rather 
thickened ’’’ and there seems to be no further discrepancy, the 
new species is placed here. 
XYLOTA, Mg. 
One new species described, X. aenetmaculata, Meij., in Tijd. v. 
Ent. li, 227, 1913 from Moroka, Papua, 1300 metres [Loria]; one 
@ inthe Genoa Museum. Dr. Meijere adds notes on some of the 
! British Flies, Syrphidae, 572, footnote. 
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