Mr. J. R. Malloch on Ewottc Muscaride. 425 
and two or three weak pairs of presutural acrostichals 
present ; prealar minute;  sternopleurals 1:2. Apical 
bristles on tergites 3 to 5 strong. Fore tibia with a median 
posterior bristle and one or two preapical antero-dorsal 
setule ; mid-tibia with two or three posterior bristles ; hind 
femur with five or six widely spaced bristles on antero-ventral 
surface, and two or three on basal half of postero-ventral ; 
hind tibia with one antero-ventral, two antero-dorsal, and 
two postero-dorsal bristles. 
Length 6°5 mm. 
Type, Chirinda Forest, Melsetter District, Southern 
Rhodesia, 10. xii. 1910, 3800 feet, on cow-manure (C. F. M. 
Swynnerton). 
This may be Hydrophoria ignobilis, Stein. 
This genus is most closely allied to Pegomyia, but no 
species of that genus has the genitalia of the female armed 
as described above. 
Subfamily Paaonizw2. 
Phaonia magnifica, sp. n. “ 
Male and female.—Black, densely whitish pruinescent. 
Head black, with white pruinescence, when viewed from the 
side with three .black marks—at middle of frons, base of 
antenne, and vibrissal angle; antenne and palpi black. 
Thoracic dorsum with three widely separated black spots 
on anterior margin, three contiguous spots forming a fascia 
behind suture, and the larger basal part of scutellum deep 
black ; pleura blackened above spiracles and behind fore and 
mid coxe. Abdomen with a large central black spot on 
each tergite, those on second and third triangular, and each 
also with a large black lateral spot. Legs reddish, bases of 
fore and mid femora narrowly and apices of all rather 
broadly black; tarsi black. Wings clear. Calyptre white. 
Halteres yellow. 
Male.—Hyes densely hairy ; narrowest part of frons about 
twice as wide as distance across posterior ocelli; inter- 
frontalia uninterrupted ; orbits moderately wide, bristled 
almost to anterior ocellus; parafacial at base of antennz 
wider than third antennal segment, but little narrowed 
below ; cheek twice as high as widest part of parafacial ; 
arista with longest hairs as long as width of third antennal 
segment. Thorax with two or three pairs of strong pre- 
sutural acrostichals ; anterior intra-alar and prealar long; 
four postsutural dorso-centrals ; hypopleura with a few hairs 
