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Head as in the preceding species, but the yellowish pollen on the 

 middle of the frons more abundant; peristoma about half as broad; 

 third antennal joint darker, almost blackish ; arista yellow, long 

 plumose near the base. Thorax, scutellum, and squarnula? exactly 

 as in kroelcri. Second abdominal segment yellow, dull in the 

 middle, bearing two broad rounded shining yellow spots, one on 

 each side; the bulla is entirely black and dull, with only a small 

 shining area behind; third and fourth segments as in fcroeberi, but 

 darker and dull in the middle, clothed with distinct golden hairs 

 and with the sides broadly black. Legs entirely red, narrowly 

 black on the knees only; white parts of tibiae less conspicuous; the 

 front tarsi alone are black, and are also very short, as in the 

 piv-.-i'ding species. Wings as in the foregoing species, but almost 

 entirely hyaline at the base ; the two black bands are less dark and 

 somewhat interrupted. 



Ti/pe , a single specimen from the Uganda Protectorate, 

 Entebbe, 1-11. ir. 1911 {8. A. Neave}> 



65. Phytomia (Megaspis) bulligeraj Austen (1909). 



Very distinct from all the foregoing species, owing to the presence 

 of but a single bulla on the third anrl fourth abdominal segments, 

 and owing to the wings being hyaline, with only a short and legs 

 conspicuous brown band below the stigma. 



This species, besides occurring in West Africa, seems to be fairlv 

 common in the mountains of English and German East Africa ; 

 in the present collection there is a single male specimen from the 

 r^nida Protectorate, Mount Kokanjero, S.-W. of Elgon, 6,400 ft., 

 7-8. ix. 1911 (8. A. Ncavc). 



66. Phytomia pubipennis, ap. n. 



$ . Length of the body 12 to 13 mm. 



Closely allied to the preceding, but distinguished by its black 

 abdomen and especially by its pubescent wings an exceptional 

 and aberrant character in the present genus. 



Head entirely black ; frons clothed with dense and moderately 

 long reddish hairs, except on the supra -antennal area which is broad 

 and high, shining black, with a few very deep punctures, and in 

 the centre a distinct smooth line, divided by a median furrow ; 

 face broad and short, deeply excavated below the antennae and 

 there grey pollinose, bearing on the sides very short grey hairs, 

 under which the shining black ground-colour is clearly visible ; the 

 facial tubercle is perfectly circular, well developed, but not very 

 prominent, bare, and shining black ; from the lower border of the 

 tubercle there start two sharp prominent keels, one on each side, 

 which pass obliquely upwards to the eyes ; jowls rather broad, 

 sinning black ; eyes adorned in the middle with two brown hori- 

 zontal bands, from the posterior extremities of which is emitted, above 



