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Exotic Syrphid Flies 
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Thorax shining brown, slightly brassy, covered with dense 
golden pile, highly appressed, a vertical pilose band on the 
pleurse. Scutellum brown, simple. Margin evenly rounded, 
surface but little convex. Halteres and squamae brownish 
yellow. 
Abdomen dark brown, base of first segment with a yellow 
band, incised on its posterior border, a convex yellow band 
on the posterior border of second segment, a narrow similar 
border on the posterior edge of third segment and the narrow 
corners posteriorly of fourth and extreme tip of fifth seg- 
ments. The posterior margins of second, third, fourth and 
fifth segments with a fringe of thick long, appressed golden 
pile. Abdomen quite elongate, over twice the length of 
thorax. Second segment nearly as long as third and fourth ; 
fifth segment almost as long as fourth. Third and fourth 
segments subequal. Abdomen but little, if at all, constricted 
basally. 
Legs light brownish yellow, golden appressed pilose, a 
brownish median band on the hind femora, a trace of same 
on mid femora. 
Wings quite elongate ; first posterior cell five to six times 
as long as wide at widest point. Third longitudinal vein 
without protruding spur. Spurious vein faint. Wings uni- 
formly pubescent, tinged with pale brown. 
Length 13.5 mm. 
One female. Galog River, 6500 ft. Sept. 12, Mt. Apo, 
Mindanao, Philippine Islands (C. S. Clagg). Type in the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology. 
This species must certainly be very close to Herve-Bazin’s 
genotype, Syrphinella miranda H. B. Nevertheless, a careful 
comparison of the specimen before me with his very ex- 
cellent figure, shows this form to have the third antennal 
joint a little shorter, the body narrower at base or more 
spatulate, and there are a fused pair of sub-translucent 
windows at the base of the second segment. The posterior 
golden pilose band of the fourth segment appears widely in- 
terrupted in novus (and there is in fact no light colored 
ground color), though it may be denudate. The wings are 
less generally infuscated, being really darkened only about 
the extreme tip. The veins over the wing are clearly not 
margined with brownish. I have seen other specimens from 
