1942] 
New Species of Syrphidse 
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SOME NEW SPECIES OF SYRPHIDJE 
By Frank M. Hull 
University of Mississippi 
This paper presents descriptions of some new species of 
syrphid flies chiefly from the neotropical regions. All types, 
except as otherwise stated, are in the author’s collection. 
Habromyia rectilinea n. sp. 
Easily recognized by a pair of mesonotal vittse, sutural 
fascia and post-sutural spots, all yellow pollinose ; abdomen 
with three pairs of narrowly separated spots and linear 
fascia. Related to magnified Bigot. 
Female. Length 14 mm. Head : eyes bare, the front 
black, the side margins golden pollinose with yellowish pile. 
The pile along the greater part of the front is erect, short, 
and black with some yellow hair intermixed upon the upper 
third of the front. Pile of the vertex and immediately be- 
hind blackish, elsewhere the occipital pile is thick, bushy and 
golden. The face and cheeks are light, subtranslucent 
orange. The sides of the face are broadly obscured with 
pale, shining yellow pubescence over which is sparse, silky, 
yellow pile. Antennse orange brown, the first joint black- 
rimmed apically, the pile of the first two joints black, the 
arista thick and yellow. Thorax : dull black with a promin- 
ent widely separated pair of yellow vittse confluent with a 
transverse vittse lying before the base of the scutellum. The 
median vittse also confluent, though narrowly, with trans- 
verse sutural fascia. In addition, the humeri and a large 
longitudinal spot before the post calli are of the same yel- 
low. Scutellum dull brownish, the rim shining with a trans- 
verse impression before it, the base blackish, the pile black 
except upon the margin. Abdomen: broad, with narrowly 
interrupted, basal, transverse bands of orange brown. First 
segment with a complete, though narrow, circle of red- 
