PHILIPPINE DIPTERA, II 47 



Male and female. Length of body, 5.5 to 6 millimeters; of 

 wing, 6 to 6.5; breadth of body, 2.8 to 3. Head much higher 

 than broad. Occiput black, with a complete yellow border which 

 is narrow above and broader on the produced lower part, and 

 there with a black spot, situated behind the inferior corner of 

 eye. Frons narrow, length more than twice the breadth, opaque, 

 dark yellow, with a basal and a middle crossband, united by a 

 median longitudinal stripe. Lunula black, with a brown spot 

 on each side between antennae and eye. Face short, concave, 

 continued below by the very broad epistoma, yellow, with a 

 black transverse band at end of antennae ; cheeks narrow, yellow ; 

 jowls very broad, as broad as one half of eye, rugulose, yellow, 

 with a broad black band, which is in continuation of that of face. 

 Prselabrum concealed; palpi black; proboscis brown. Antennas 

 short; first joint black, second globular and red, third pale 

 yellow; arista long plumose, the feathers twice as broad as 

 the third joint. 



Mesonotum and scutellum black, opaque, punctulate, black 

 pubescent; three less distinct and irregular cinereous longitu- 

 dinal stripes on dorsum, humeral calli yellow like the notopleural 

 stripe; mesopleura toward the middle with a narrow yellowish 

 stripe, which is cinereous-dusted above. Yellow border of scu- 

 tellum complete, but narrow. Squamse and halteres yellowish. 

 Abdomen dull black, the second, third, and fourth segments each 

 with a narrow yellow hind border, which is a little broadened 

 in the middle; second segment without keel; male genitalia 

 yellow; ovipositor short, compressed, brownish yellow; venter 

 yellowish, black on the sides. Legs and coxse black, the four 

 posterior tibiae with the basal half yellowish, and all the tarsi 

 with the first joint whitish. 



Wings rather long, with a strong yellow tinge along the fore 

 border and on the basal half ; on the basal half some dark spots 

 and two broader dark bands, one intermediate and complete 

 below the stigma, and the other surrounding the posterior cross 

 vein; a dark stripe to the fourth vein in the hyaline space be- 

 tween the two bands and some uncertain spots in the apical 

 hyaline part. Veins yellow, the third and fourth straight and 

 parallel to the end ; anterior cross vein a little before the middle 

 of the discoidal cell; anal cell not much shorter than the second 

 basal cell, with the terminal cross vein straight. 



LUZON, Laguna, Mount Maquiling and Mount Banahao 

 (Baker). 



