New species of the Syrphid genus Callicera. 325 
Described from a male in the British Museum taken by 
Miss D. M. A. Bate at Troodos (about 4,500 feet) in Cyprus, 
some time between July and October 1902. 
C. YERBURYI, Verrall, Ent. Month. Mag., xl, 229 (1904). 9. 
Aeneous black, brightly shining but rather obscured on the thorax 
and base of abdomen by abundant reddish-orange pubescence. Second 
antennal joint less than half the length of first. Thorax not striped. 
Abdomen black haired at the tip and with dark transverse bands on the 
jirst and second segments. Femora almost entirely yellow. 
Head black, moderately shining; frons below the ocelli with abun- 
dant pubescence, which ranges from being brownish-orange with a 
band of black hairs crossing the ocelli and pointing more forwards 
to being blackish on the upper and middle part or even all dark 
blackish brown or mainly black, behind this, dense longer orange 
pubescence extends sideways a little beyond the upper angle of the 
eye; Space across the antennal knob shining black from eye to eye 
and almost bare; face with rather abundant shorter slightly droop- 
ing pale greyish-yellow or orange pubescence which leaves a middle 
line all the way down shining black and bare; space between the 
eyes at the vertex more than one-third the width of the head, and 
slightly widening all down to the mouth; before the jowls there is 
a shining black rather wide bare space; jowls with reddish-orange 
pubescence, which becomes denser though shorter on the lower 
part of the back of the head, and then decreases rapidly in length 
until it dies out before the middle of the back of the head; all 
about the flat of the back of the head the pubescence is very short 
and insignificant, brownish-orange until it meets the longer orange 
occipital pubescence; all the upper part of the back of the head 
brightly shining aeneous black, but the lower third slightly dusted 
whitish; close against the eyes on almost all the upper two-thirds 
it is polished and impunctate; proboscis large and black with small 
black palpi. Eyes with dense pubescence on almost all the fore 
part conspicuous and mainly dark brown, but becoming greyer 
and less dense below, while on all the back half of the eye it is very 
short inconspicuous and very sparse, and all the middle part of the 
back of the disc of the eye is bare. Antennae distinctly longer than 
the head is from the back of the vertex to the tip of the antennal 
knob; antennal knob polished black and quite bare; second an- 
tennal joint less than half the length of the first, and the third about 
two and a half times as long as the two basal ones together; third 
joint for about two-fifths of its length forming the deepest part of 
the antennae, but thence gently shelving off for a short distance 
TRANS. ENT. SOC, LOND. 1913.—PART II. (SEPT.) b 4 
