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Female. — Length of body, 11 millimeters; of wing, 10. Head 

 black, with pale reddish face; the occiput clothed with dense 

 whitish dust near the eyes; frons shining on the middle and 

 white at the eye borders; face clothed with dense whitish dust 

 with a yellowish sheen. Antennae entirely black, the first two 

 joints with black hairs, the third linear, longer than the first 

 two together. Mystax formed by only four pale yellowish 

 bristles; proboscis and palpi black, the latter with yellowish 

 hairs, ocellar bristles black. Thorax and scutellum entirely shin- 

 ing reddish, only the humeral calli with a broad shining black 

 spot; collar with yellowish bristles and a brown spot on each 

 side; macrochsetse black, those of the dorsocentral rows rather 

 long and much produced over the suture; pleurae with scanty 

 yellowish tomentum; metapleura with yellow bristles. Scutel- 

 lum with two strong black apical macrochsetae ; mesophragma 

 reddish, gray-dusted. Halteres yellowish. 



Abdomen cylindric, of the same color as the thorax, shining 

 above, opaque on venter, destitute of any dark marking, its 

 hairs entirely pale; spines of the ovipositor red. Legs with 

 the coxae entirely reddish, only a small ring on the trocanters 

 and on the knees being black; their hairs and bristles entirely 

 reddish; hind femora with a single long bristle below near the 

 base. Terminal spur of front tibiae black, small, curved, distinct 

 only at the outer side; claws black, with narrowly red base; 

 pulvilli yellow. 



Wings hyaline, with a faint yellowish tinge; veins brown; 

 fourth posterior cell widely open at end; anterior cross vein on 

 the first third of the discoidal cell ; second longitudinal vein per- 

 fectly straight at end. 



Luzon, Tayabas, Mount Banahao (Baker). 



134. Saropogon specularis sp. nov. 



A pretty, variegated species of small size, distinguished by 

 the glistening, specular sternopleura. This cannot be the male 

 of 5. ruhricosus, as is showTi by the different mystax, different 

 spur of front tibiae, and more numerous spines of the hind 

 femora. 



Male. — Length of body, 9 to 10 millimeters; of wing, 8.5 to 

 9. Head entirely black, clothed with gray dust on the face, on 

 the sides of the frons, and on the occiput; ocellar and occipital 

 bristles black ; antennae entirely black, the two basal joints with 

 black bristles, the third joint linear, almost twice as long as 

 the first two together. Mystax formed by eight or nine yellowish 



