254 SYRPHIDiE. 



Gm. ; Pz. ; Mg. ; LI. ; Fin. ; Mq. ; Ztt. ; St. F. et Srv. Nigro-Eenea, 

 antenuis ferrugineis apice nigris, thorace glauco-bivittato, alis limpidis, 

 abdoraine atro maculis sex subtrigonis fill vis oruato, pedibus ferrugi- 

 neis, femoribus posticis supra nigris, tibiis posticis nigro-bitasciatis, 

 tarsis posticis subfuscis basi nigris. Long. 3|^-4 ; alar. 6-7 lin. 



iEneous-black. Face, epistoma, sides of the peristoma, and under 

 side covered with whitish bloom ; sides of the peristoma yellow. An- 

 tennfe ferruginous ; fourth and fifth joints black. Thorax adorned in 

 front with 3 short bluish-white stripes ; sides and breast covered with 

 yellowish-white bloom ; a slight black scapula along each side. Wings 

 colourless ; stigma pale brown. Halteres yellow. Abdomen velvety 

 black, adorned on each side with three almost triangular tawny spots. 

 Legs ferruginous ; hind thighs black above and towards the tips ; hind 

 tibiae adorned with two black bands ; hind tarsi slightly brown above, 

 black at the base. Fein. Front covered with tawny bloom; third joint 

 of the antennrc black above. 



Generally distributed. (E. S. I.) 



Genus X. XYLOTA. 



Xylota, Mq. d. i. 521(1834); Mg. zw.vii. ; Ct. ; Rdn. Musca p.^ 

 L. ; Dg. ; Shr. Si/iyhns p., Fb. e. s. ; Pz. TJtereva p., Fb. Milesia 

 p., LI. ; Fb. ; Fin. Merodon p., Fb. s. a. Xylota p., Mg. zw. iii. ; 

 St. F. et Srv. ; Ztt. Leptomyia (inch), Nwm. 



Epistoma impressum. A^ttermo} capitis latitudine conjnnctim hreviores ; 



articulus qnartus dorsalis, quiidus basi ptibescens. Scutellimi depres- 



sum, acutnm. Areola subapicalis iuteg^'a ; lobus axillaris distinctus ; 



vena snbcostalis et radialis ad marginem disjunctce ; vena transversa 



prahracliialis trans medium areolce discalis locata. 



Body linear, stout. Head semicircular, depressed in front ; epistoma 

 smooth, or with some very little scapulae, obliquely truncate, impressed, 

 retuse beneath; peristoma oval, straitened in front, curved upwards. 

 Labrum short, robust, notched at the tip. Lingua strong, acute, not 

 longer tlian the labrum. Maxillae slender. Palpi cylindrical, subclavate, 

 somewhat hairy towards the tips, as long as the maxillre. Labium 

 large, cylindrical. Antenna: 6-jointed, approximate, seated on a tu- 

 bercle of the front, porrect, nutant, jointly shorter than the breadth of 

 the head; first and second joints small, bristly; second cyathifbrm, 

 broader than the first ; third patelliform, pubescent ; fourth and fifth 

 very minute ; fourth seated on the third at the base ; sixth long, setiform, 

 slightly pubescent at the base. Thorax subquadrate, with two hmncral 

 scapidae, and with a transverse suture ; scutcUum semicircular, flaty 

 with a sharp edge. Wings lanceolate, very finely pubescent, incumbent 



