162 Mr. J. R. Malloch on Exotic Muscaride. 
occiput whitish pruinescent. Thorax and abdomen yellowish 
testaceous, with golden-yellow pollinosity, the former with 
three slender reddish-yellow vittee when viewed from behind. 
Leys coloured as body, tarsi fuscous. Wings clear, veins 
brown, yellow at bases. 
Eyes hairy, separated by about width of anterior ocellus ; 
vibrissal angle produced. Scutellum with 6 marginal and 4 
submarginal bristles; bristling and hairing of pleura as in 
genotype. Mid-tibia with two posterior bristles ; hind femur 
with about six bristles on apical half of antero-ventral surface 
and one or two near base on postero-ventral ; hind tibia with 
one antero-ventral and one antero-dorsal bristle. Wings as 
in genotype. 
Length 7°5 mm. 
Type, Mt. Mlanje, Nyasaland, 27. xi. 1912 (Dr. S. Neave). 
The only species of the genus so far described which lacks 
the usual conspicuous black markings on the thorax and 
abdomen. ‘Ihe anterior sterno-pleural bristle is absent. 
Subfamily Paaonrryz, 
Myiospila maculiventris, sp. n. 
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Female.—Shining black. Head black, orbits with whitish 
pruinescence, when viewed from the side, with a white 
pruinescent mark at base of antenne in front of orbital 
bristle ; antenne and palpi black. Thorax indistinctly 
quadrivittate. Abdomen unicolorous black. Legs black, 
hind tibiz slightly reddish. Wings slightly greyish, a very 
conspicuous black spot on inner cross-vein and another on 
outer, the extreme base of discal cell brown. Calyptre 
brown. Halteres yellow: 
Kyes almost bare ; frons at vertex one-third of the head- 
width, slightly widened anteriorly ; interfrontalia without 
cruciate bristles ; two backwardly directed orbitals above on 
each side, anterior infra-orbitals strongest, orbits with many 
setulose hairs laterad of the bristles; arista long plumed to 
apex; thir antennal segment nearly three times as long as 
second. Thorax without strong anterior acrostichals ; post- 
sutural dorso-centrals 3, a weak fourth on one side ; prealar 
very short ; hypopleura bare. Third and fourth abdominal 
tergites with median and apical bristles, the median series of. 
third weak ; apical ventral segments as in meditabunda, 
Fallén. Fore tibia without a median bristle ; mid-tibia with 
two postero-dorsal bristles ; hind femur with a series of 
unequal bristles from base to apex on antero-ventral surface, 
and some very short bristles on basal half of postero-ventral ; 
