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eyes only touching a short space on tlie vertex, in the female dichoptic, 

 with a narrow front. Antennae long, porrect, the first two joints very- 

 short, the third being longest, compressed ； the arista bare ； moutli - 

 opening long, narrower anteriorly and somewhat turned upwardly. 

 Thorax nearly quadrate, a little broader at the posterior margin, being 

 somewhat broader than the length. 



Abdomen not broader or narrower than the thorax, on the sides 

 nearly parallel. Head, thorax and abdomen nearly of the same breadth. 



Wings Ion per than the abdomen, cross-vein before the middle of the 

 discoidal cell, marginal cell opened. Legs slender. 



To this genus belongs small black cheerful flies, wnich resemblinp- 

 in the form and coloring somewhat to the next genus Pipiza, but it is 

 easily distinguished from the latter by having the yellowish face, while 

 in Pipiza the face always blackish. We have in Japan 6 species : 



Table of Species. 



1. Scutellum at the hind margin yellowish 2 



一 Scutellum entirely black , 3 



2. Face whitish, abdomen at the apical half yellowish 



Nohirae n. sp. 



一 Face sulphureous yellow, abdomen at the apical half black ••• 

 ••• fasciatus Coq. 



3. Face with a black stripe • 4 



一 Face not with a black stripe jozanus 11. sp. 



4. Abdomen at the apical half black, atmost at the hind margins 



of the third and fifth segments fulvous 、 … c 



― Abdomen at the apical half fulvous ••• tamaga wan US n. sp. 

 5. Black stripe of the face broad and reaching to the base of 



• antennae. Ogasawarae n. sp. 



一 Black stripe of the face narrower and not reaching to the base 

 of antennae •• pallipes n sp. 



1. Faragus tamaga warms Mats. (n. sp.) PI, I, fig 4， ビ 



of Head robust, broader than the thorax. Face light yellow, with 

 shining, fine, yellow hairs, in the middle with a broad, lom、 itudinal. 



