100 Miss G. Ricardo on 
Loew’s remark no. 2 (J. c. p. 235), concerning the erroneous 
description of the bands of ‘the abdomen of E. heros by 
Wiedemann, also applies to this species, which Loew suggests 
may be only a variety of EL. heros, trom which it ditfers 
in the lesser shading of the wing, which hardly extends 
into the anal cell. 
G. Wings with dark shading on the fore border and through dark 
shading of the cross-veins (not the longitudinal veins also) more or 
less spotted. 
Exoprosopa major, sp. 0. 
Type (female) from Fort Johnston, Nyasaland (Rendall). 
Black, scutellum and posterior borders of abdomen dull 
red. 
Face with black pubescence and yellow scaly hairs. 
Anteune black; the third joint a little longer than the first, 
the second short, the bristle stout, as long as the third joint. 
Hind part of head with white scaly hairs bor dering the eyes 
on the sides, yellow in the centre. Collar composed of 
yellow hairs. ‘The pubescence on the sides of the thorax, on 
the breast, and above the halteres yellow, with a few black 
hairs above the yellow on sides of thorax; bristles of thorax 
black. Thorax with some short black pubescence and some 
yellow scaly hairs. Scutellum dull red, black at the base 
and in the centre. Abdomen dull black, the posterior 
borders of segments from the third one red, on the sides of 
the second and third are red spots; the pubescence black, 
with yellow scaly hairs on the sides of all the segments and 
some ‘long yellow hairs on the first two s segments ; ; the sides 
of abdomen with light yellow hairs on the first and on the 
anterior border of the second and third segments, black hairs 
intermixed with some yellow ones on the remaining seg- 
ments ; underside of abdomen black and red, with long light 
yellow pubescence. Legs black, the posterior ones with 
yellow scaly hairs. 
Wings grey, the dark shading on the fore border is 
yellowish brown in colour, extending along the first longi- 
tudinal vein to its junction with the border, and on its 
inner side from the base of the second longitudinal vein 
almost to where the cross-vein of the submarginal cell 
joins the latter vein; at the base it fills the first basal cell ; 
only the cross-vein at the base of the fourth posterior cell 
and the first part of the vein at the base of the third posterior 
cell, with the one dividing the first basal cell from the first 
posterior cell, are shaded; the small cross-vein is in the 
