22 PHILIPPINE DIPTERA, II 



above, opaque on venter, destitute of any dark marking* its 

 hairs entirely pale; spines of the ovipositor red. Legs with 

 the coxae entirely reddish, only a small ring on the trocanters 

 and on the knees being black; their hairs and bristles entirely 

 reddish; hind femora with a single long bristle below near the 

 base. Terminal spur of front tibiae black, small, curved, distinct 

 only at the outer side; claws black, with narrowly red base; 

 pulvilli yellow. 



Wings hyaline, with a faint yellowish tinge; veins brown; 

 fourth posterior cell widely open at end; anterior cross vein on 

 the first third of the discoidal cell ; second longitudinal vein per- 

 fectly straight at end. 



LUZON, Tayabas, Mount Banahao (Baker). 



134. Saropogon specularis sp. nov. 



A pretty, variegated species of small size, distinguished by 

 the glistening, specular sternopleura. This cannot be the male 

 of S. rubricosiis, as is shown by the different mystax, different 

 spur of front tibiae, and more numerous spines of the hind 

 femora. 



Male. Length of body, 9 to 10 millimeters; of wing, 8.5 to 

 9. Head entirely black, clothed with gray dust on the face, on 

 the sides of the frons, and on the occiput; ocellar and occipital 

 bristles black ; antennae entirely black, the two basal joints with 

 black bristles, the third joint linear, almost twice as long as 

 the first two together. Mystax formed by eight or nine yellowish 

 bristles, disposed in a single row at the mouth border; palpi 

 black and black-haired; proboscis black. 



Thorax black, with the humeral calli narrowly reddish; on 

 the collar and on the dorsum clothed by dense dark ochraceous 

 tomentum, without defined pattern ; on the pleurae the tomentum 

 scantier and light gray, only the sternopleura being glabrous 

 and shining black; bristles of the collar black; thoracic macro- 

 chaetae black, one praesutural, one anterior supra-alar, one pos- 

 terior supra-alar, the dorsocentrals disposed on a line much 

 produced forward, but shorter than in S. rubricosics. Meta- 

 pleural bristles yellowish. Scutellum shining black, gray-dusted 

 above, yellowish along the hind border, with a pair of strong 

 black apical macrochaetae. Mesophragma black, densely gray- 

 dusted. Halteres brownish yellow. 



Abdomen distinctly spatulate, shining, with very short, dark 

 and pale hairs; first segment black, with a narrow yellowish 

 hind border and a strong black bristle on each side; second 

 segment yellow, with a broad black basal band, the last pro- 



