viii, D, 4 Bezzi: Philippine Diptera, I 327 



Genus SPILOCOSMIA novum 



It is necessary to erect this new genus for a species in this 

 collection which shows a striking coloring of the body, combined 

 with a pointed third antennal joint, and want of ocellar bristles. 

 Head broad; eyes rounded; third antennal joint not reaching 

 the epistome, and with its external angle very pointed; arista 

 plumose ; orbital bristles, 2.2 mm. ; occipital row with thin, 

 black bristles ; genal bristle strong. Palpi rather narrow, bristly. 

 Thoracic chsetotaxy complete ; a very strong pteropleural ; 2 meso- 

 pleurals. Scutellum with 4 bristles. Abdomen bristly at the 

 end. Front femora with a row of bristles beneath ; middle tibiae 

 with 2 spurs; hind tibiae with a row of strong hairs. Wings 

 broad, with a strong costal bristle; stigma short; second vein 

 straight; third vein bristly over its whole length; a small cross 

 vein after the middle of the discal cell ; anal cell drawn out in a 

 long point. Body yellow with black spots. Wings with yellow 

 and brown cross bands, without basal streaks. 



Type: Spilocosmia bakeri sp. nov. 



This genus seems to be allied to the Bornean Chelyophora 

 Rondani. 



72. Spilocosmia bakeri sp. nov^ 



A yellow species, with 12 black spots on the body and with 1 

 yellow and 2 brown bands on the wings. 



Male. — Length of body, 8 mm. Head pale yellow; frons 

 darkened in the middle above the antennae; there is also a very 

 small black ocellar dot; a rounded black spot occurs on the 

 face toward the middle of the epistome; antennae yellow; palpi 

 yellow, with black bristles. Mesonotum and scutellum entirely 

 shining yellow ; the rounded black spots are as follows : One on the 

 humeral callus, 1 on each side of the median dorsal suture, at the 

 second notopleural bristle, 1 at the inner supra-alar bristle (the 

 largest of all) , and 1 on the end of the scutellum. All the bristles 

 are black. Squamulae and halteres yellow. Abdomen elongate, 

 entirely shining yellow, black pilose; last segment with a black 

 spot on each side. Genitalia black. Venter yellow, with a mar- 

 ginal black line from second to fifth segment. Legs entirely 

 yellow, black setose. Wings with yellow veins; stigma yel- 

 low; from it arises a yellow band which passes over the basal 

 cross-veins to the anal cell; the 3 brown bands are narrow; the 

 first band begins near the middle of the costa between the ends 

 of the first and second veins, and passes obliquely over the small 

 cross-vein to the hind margin, reaching it at the end of the anal 



