1942] 
New Species of Syrphidse 
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somewhat larger upon the third segment. The pile on the 
black area of the third segment is black but over the entire 
remainder of the third segment and all of the fourth seg- 
ment is dense and erect and light yellowish-brown. Legs: 
light, brownish-yellow, pale pilose, except for a distal black- 
ish-brown spot upon the anterior and posterior tibiae and 
the blackish terminal joints of the tarsi. 
Holotype: one female, Sao Paulo, Y. Piranga, Lange de 
Moretes, (Brazil). April 8, 1936. 
Vohicella parana n. sp. 
Related to dimorphia Cur. ; legs dark brown, their bases 
paler; femoral pile, including apex, black. Marginal and 
apical scutellar pile black. 
Male. Length 6 mm. Head: eyes, densely, quite long, 
dark brown pilose. The vertex is black with long, black 
pile. Front and face pale yellow, with long, similarly colored 
pile. The cheeks are shining brown. The antennae are 
elongate, light brown, the third joint slightly concave in the 
middle; arista with thirteen rays. Thorax: mesonotum 
shining, almost black and pale pilose anteriorly and nar- 
rowly before the scutellum, but broadly black pilose else- 
where and over the pleurae and notopleurae. The scutellum 
is light, brownish-yellow, translucent and rather large, and 
inflated and covered on the posterior half with dense, long, 
black pile. The basal scutellar pile is pale yellow, the mar- 
ginal bristles black, the ventral fringe black. Abdomen: 
quite translucent, dark brown ; middle of the first segment 
broad, large, the middle basal areas on the second segment 
and a diagonal, rather small, elongate and irregular spot on 
the sides of the third segment translucent and pale yellow. 
The pile of the abdomen is chiefly pale basally in the middle 
but with black pile all along the lateral and posterior mar- 
gins of the second segment and broadly over most of the 
third segment. Most of the pile of the fourth segment is 
long, quite sparse and pale. Legs: dark brown and sub- 
translucent, the bases of the femora diffusely lighter brown 
and that of the hind femora diffusely yellowish All of the 
tibiae dark brown and together with the femora, black pilose. 
There are just a few pale hairs on the base of the hind fe- 
