370 Miss G. RlcarJo on the Pangoniuaj 



transverse band dark brown, reaching to the anal cell ; the 

 shadin£j at the base extends almost to the apeK of the first 

 basal cell and more than halfway np the second, so that the 

 clear part between it and the band is narrow. 



Length 7 millim. 



This species is easily distinguished from C. tarsa/'i!}, Wlk., 

 by the first joint of the antennse, the wholly black legs and 

 abdomen, and the darker Mings. 



Chrysops fuscipennis, $ , sp. n. 



Type (female) from Gaizima, ^lashonaland, 95. 12; one 

 other from Salisbury, Mashonaland, Dec, 44 {Marshall); 

 and one, unlabelled, from unknown locality. 

 This species is allied to C ciliaris, Loew. 

 Brown. Abdomen pale yellowish, with broad blackish 

 bands, which only leave the ground-colour free on the poste- 

 rior borders of the hind segments. 



Face grey, with two black, shining, ol)long spots on each 

 side below the antennae, the pubescence grey ; forehead with 

 a large central black spot reaching nearly to the eyes, rounded 

 posteriorly and joined in the centre by a small black spot 

 bearing one ocellus, the other two forming the base of the 

 triangle are placed on the border of two oblong black spots 

 which reach to the eyes on each side and are separated in 

 the centre of the vertex; the pubescence on the forehead 

 white. Antenna; yellow, the third joint black except at its 

 base ; the pubescence on the first two joints black, these 

 equal in length, the third slightly longer than the second. 

 Palpi long, yellow. Thorax black, with two grey stripes 

 and some grey pube.-cenee, sides grey, the shoulders yellow. 

 Breast-sides grey. Scutellum brown, with grey tomentum. 

 Abdomen with the first segment brown at its base, the 

 brownish-black band on the second segment does not quite 

 reach the side, on the posterior border of the segment the 

 yellow ground-colour becomes greyish; there is a similar band 

 on each segment which attains the side and entirely occupies 

 the anterior part of the segment, only leaving a posterior 

 boi'der of grey colour; the short pubescence is black, with a 

 few grey hairs intermixed, grey at the sides, except on the 

 third segment, where it is black ; the underside is yellow at 

 the base, then brown and grey, the pubescence being grey on 

 the liglit parts and black on the dark parts. Legs yellowish 

 brown, the last four joints of the tarsi darker ; there is scat- 

 tered white pubescence on the coxse and femora; the pubes- 

 cence on the tibiai and tarsi short and black, longer on tlic 

 hind tibiie. ^^'ings clear, brown on the fore border, Avith a 



