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bands are visible) ; the frontal triangle is reduced to the wrinkled 

 supra -antennal area; the eight small silvery dots on the jowls near 

 the eyes, four on each side, are quite distinct. Thorax and scu- 

 tellum as in bv.Uata, but the pleura showing traces of scanty 

 golden tomentum ; squamulae black and black-fringed ; halteres 

 dark brown. Abdomen, as regards shape and bullae, the same as 

 in lull at a ; the second segment is covered on the sides with a 

 light, silvery, shining tomentum ; the third and fourth show in the 

 middle, on each side of the median bulla, w r hich appeal's as though 

 encircled by a velvety-black border, a large patch of dense golden 

 tomentum; the lateral bulla? seem to be less prominent and are 

 p.irtly hidden below the golden tomentum ; the sides of the second, 

 third, and fourth segments are also fringed with rather long golden 

 liiirs; the velvety-black border around the middle tubercle on the 

 second segment is very broad. Genitalia shining black and black- 

 haired ; venter shining black, with sparse but long yellow hairs. 

 Legs as in bullata, but the femora scantily clothed with golden 

 pollen. Wings with precisely the same pattern as in bullata, 

 but the black band covering the middle cross-vein is distinctly 

 narrower. 



Type <S , a single specimen from the Uganda Protectorate, Toro 

 Forest, S.E. Buddu, 3,800 ft., 26-30. ix. 1911 (S. A. Neave}. 



63. Phytomia kroeberi, Bezzi. 



2 Length of the body 15 mm. 



A very handsome species allied to the two preceding, but distin- 

 guished by the predominant red colour of the head, abdomen, 

 and femora and by the wings being almost hyaline basally, and 

 having two abbreviated black binds in the middle. A short 

 diagnosis of this species has already been given by rne (Ann. Mus. 

 Civ. Geneva, (3) v. 1912, p. 423). 



Head reddish yellow, the occiput towards its middle and the 

 frons above dull blackish ; fruns almost bare, with scanty whitish 



Fig. 14. Pliytomia 'kroeberi, Bezzi. 

 Wing of 9 . X 6. 



pollen, the wrinkled area above the antennae dark red ; face broad, 

 light yellow, deeply excavated below the antennae where it 

 is whitish pollinose ; facial tubercle flattened, expanded on the 

 sides, not distinct from the epistoma ; peristoma broad, but not 



