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ill-defined spot towards the middle ; cheeks linear ; jowls narrow, unspotted. 

 Antennae wholly pale yellowish ; arista pubescent, with distinct but short hairs. 

 Proboscis and palpi pale yellowish, the latter with black bristles. All the cephalic 

 bristles are black ; 3 i. or. ; no oc. ; ocp. thin, acute, black. Thorax on back rather 

 dull, with indistinct pale pubescence ; all the bristles black ; dc. placed much behind, 

 almost in a line with the first p. sa. ; 2 mpl. ; pt. as strong as the st. ; middle scp. 

 rudimentary. Hypopleural spot whitish. Scutellum triangular, with distinct lateral 

 keeis, bare on the disc, with four black bristles. Halteres pale yellowish. Abdomen 

 with black pubescence and stout black bristles at the end ; it is almost entirely 

 shining blackish brown, with a yellow middle spot on the second segment, extending 

 in front over the hind border of the first segment. Male genitalia shining black, 



Fig. 2. Wing of Bhacochlaena fasciolata, Loew. 



with yellow base ; venter with the sternites pale yellowish, with a black basal spot. 

 Legs entirely pale yellowish ; hind tibiae with a row of long bristles. For the wing 

 pattern see the figure. The 3rd longitudinal vein is bristly throughout its whole 

 length ; costal bristle small, but distinct ; small cross-vein placed after the middle 

 of the discoidal cell. 



Originally described from Orange Free State, Bloemfontein (Tallin), I have 

 received from Prot. Hendel a male specimen likewise from the Orange Free State, 

 Botha ville, 15th December 1898 (Dr. H. Brauns). 



2. Rhacochlaena hammersteini, Enderlein, Zool. Zahrb., xxxi, 1911, p. 440, fig. R. 



Described from Madagascar, as a Euphranta, and apparently belonging to the 

 present genus, like Trypeta lemniscata from Formosa. 



Note. — The widely spread genus Phorellia, Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (= Spilo- 

 grapha, Loew), is certainly present in the Ethiopian Region, but I have not seen 

 specimens belonging to it. It seems that the two following species may be placed 

 in it : (a) Forcllia brunithorax, Robineau-Desvoidy, Myod., p. 762, from Mauritius ; 

 and (b) Addict, tristriata, Karsch, Ent. Nachr., xiii, 1887, p. 7, fig. 6, from W. Africa, 

 Pungo Andongo. 



XV. Philophylla, Rondani, 1870. 



Of the Ethiopian species described as " Acidia" I think that the following may 

 be provisionally placed in the present, eminently characteristic genus : — 

 (a) Acidia obnubila, Karsch (Ent. Nachr., xiii, p. 6, fig. 5), from W. Africa, 

 Pungo Andongo ; 



