COLLECTED IN UATCHIAN, KAISAA, ETC. 303 



Pam. SYRPHID.E, Leach. 



Gen. EaiSTALis, Latr. 



3. Eristalis inficitus, n.s. Mas. Luteus, capitis vitta chalybeo- 

 fiilva, antennarum arista nuda, thorace maculis duabus lateralibus 

 trigonis iiigris, fasciis duabus albidis, abdomine basi albido-tomentoso 

 apicem versus subfeneo fasciis duabus nigris interruptis, alis limpidis, 

 halteribus flavescentibus. 



Male. Luteous. Head with yellowish-white tomentum, excepting the 

 shining tawny stripe, which has a chalybeous tinge hindward. Eyes 

 red. Antennae luteous; arista simple. Thorax with a large trian- 

 gular black spot on each side of the disk, with a whitish band, and 

 with another hindward adjoining the soutellum ; metathorax black ; 

 pectus with a whitish oblique streak on each side; its disk black. 

 Abdomen with whitish tomentum at the base, and with an aeneous 

 tinge towards the tip ; hind borders of the 1st and 2nd segments 

 black on each side. Wings limpid ; veins black, tawny towards the 

 base ; halteres yellowish. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 

 8 lines. 



Fam. MUSCID.^, Latr. 



Sub fain. Tacuinides, Walk. 



Gren. EcHiNOMTiA, Dum&il. 



4. EcHiNOMYiA SARCOPHAGoiDES, n. s. Fcsm. Nigra, ciuereo to- 

 mentosa, capite albo, frontalibus rufis antice dilatatis, antennis rufis 

 articulo 3 supra nigricante, thorace quadrivittato, scutelli margine 

 postico rufescente, abdomine tessellato, alis cinereis, venis transversis 

 fusco uebulosis, alulis albis, halteribus fulvis. 



Female. Black with cinereous tomentum and with black bristles and 

 spines. Head white ; froutalia red, widening much in front, with 

 bristles along each side ; facialia without bristles ; epistoma prominent. 

 Antenna; red ; ord joint blackish and gibbous above, shorter than the 

 2nd, which has some black bristles above ; arista stout, longer than 

 the 3rd joint. Thorax with four slight stripes ; scutellum reddish 

 about the hind border. Abdomen tessellated, a little broader and 

 longer than the thorax. Legs very robust. Wings cinereous; veins 

 black, tawny along the costa and towards the base ; transverse veins 

 clouded with brown ; pra;brachial vein forming a right angle at its 

 flexure, near which it is curved inward, and is tlience straight to its 

 tip; discal transverse vein hardly undulating, parted by its liugth from 

 the border, and by much less than its length from the flexure of the 

 praibrachial ; alulae white; halteres tawny. Length of the body 6 

 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



