1. A. cingulata Meiy. 2. 145. 3. tab. 17. f. 0. mas. 



Length 5 to 6 lines. " Rufous hairy : abdomen black, with yellow bands, 

 wings cinereous, anterior margin chestnut, with a silver spot at the base 

 (male), or fuscous atid immaculate (female)." Meig. 



Never having seen a British specimen of this insect, I have copied 

 the above characters from Meigen. 



* * Submarginal nervure originating before the transverse one of 

 the discoidal cell. 



4. A. ornata Hgg. ?—^Cuft. Brit. Ent. pi. 9. 



Black, shining : head covered with black hair between the eyes, silvery 

 , behind the eyes ; clypeus and under side of head clothed with golden 



hair : thorax covered with ochraceous hair before, nearly naked in the 

 centre : scutellum brownish : abdomen covered with short golden hair, 

 the sides surrounded with fasciculi of fine black hair, excepting at the 

 base and the sides of the 4th segment which are white ; 3rd and 4th seg- 

 ments with white fasciae interrupted in the middle, 6th with a white spot 

 in the centre, last joint very white with hair : wings transparent, with a 

 dark brown cloud extending two thirds the length, sinuated obliquely at 

 the posterior margin, with a transverse transparent spot near the base, a 

 larger one in the centre and 2 others near the margin at the union of the 

 nervures : halteres yellow : legs black, thighs and tibiae covered with 

 close yellow shining scales. 



This beautiful insect does not appear to be described by Meigen : 

 it comes very near to A. italica^ but that has the halteres black. 

 Sturm sent me our A. ornata under the name of A. Pandora, and 

 this I received from M. Passerini as the A. italica of Rossi. It is 

 now in every one's cabinet, but was first discovered by my friend 

 J. C. Dale, Esq. on Parley Heath; also at St. Leonard's and 

 Hurne, on the borders of Dorset and Hants, in July 1821, and 

 afterwards in September. It was found settling upon heath, banks, 

 and on the ground where the turf had been pared off: in Septem- 

 ber I took 3 or 4 near the centre of Parley Heath, and in August 

 3 specimens in sandy paths at Ramsdown, where it has also been 

 observed by the Hon. C. A. Harris. Mr. Dale thinks it has been 

 captured on Braunton Burrows, in Devon. 



5. A. Pandora Fab. Syst. Ant. 121. \0.—Meig. 2. 170. 44. tab. 17. f. 12. 



Length 3 to 51 lines. Black, shining, covered with short hairs : face and 

 behind the eyes clothed with shining ochreous scales : thorax with the 

 margins and 3 obscure stripes down the back of shining ochreous scales, 

 scutellum and abdomen scattered with the same, 2nd articulation of the 

 latter with a silvery spot on each side extending along the base, 3rd with 

 a curved but interrupted fascia, 4th with a spot on each side, and 5th 

 and 6th with a band at the base silvery : wings with a dark brown cloud 

 extending along and near to the posterior margin, very deeply and irre- 

 gularly sinuated, with a pale lunular bar near the base, and 3 transparent 

 spots beneath the costa, the central one embracing the union of the ner- 

 vures : halteres piceous. 



Specimens of this beautiful insect, which I took at Marseille, are 

 said to have been captured at Dover. 



