Syrphus. 287 



and all bands, also the first, lying at the front margins and even in- 

 cluding a narrow hind margin of the foregoing segment; the hairs are 

 long, pale at the base but black on the black parts of the third and 

 fourth segments and just at the hind margin of second. Genitalia 

 small, hidden under the fifth segment, black, chiefly yellow-haired. 

 Legs orange, anterior femora with about the basal half or more black, 

 hind femora black except the apical part ; hind tibiæ with a black 

 ring in the middle; all metatarsi blackish above, often only towards 

 the apex, the four last joints blackish or generally the last more or 

 less yellow. The long hairs on femora black, the short hairs above 

 towards apex yellow; the hairs on tibiæ yellow, except paitly above 

 the hind tibiæ. Wings almost hyaline or somewhat yellowish tinged, 



Vig. 120. Wing of 8. annuUpes 9- 



especially at the anterior margin; cubital vein curved down in the 

 middle above the first posterior cell. Squamulæ whitish with a yel- 

 low fringe. Halteres brown or blackish. 



Female. Vertex and frons somewhat narrow, bluish black, with 

 large, yellowish pruinose side dust spots, going broadly down to 

 epistoma so that there is in the middle a petiolated, somewhat bifur- 

 cate spot strelching from the vertex to the antennæ. The hairs black, 

 Abdomen as in the male, not more shining; the bands a little nar- 

 rower and often less emarginate; the hind margin of the fourth 

 together with the front margin of the fifth segment form a generally 

 conspicuous band. 



Length 12 — 13,6 mm. 



This large and beautiful species is at once recognized by the 

 hairy eyes and the dipped cubital vein. 



<S. amiulipes is rare in Denmark; Ordrup Mose, Ermelund, Geel 

 Skov, Donse, Frerslev Hegn, Tyvekrog, Nyrup Hegn, Tisvilde; in Jut- 

 land at Horsens and Gessø at Silkeborg. My dates are ^^/s— ^/s. It 

 occurs on Umbellileræ on meadows, often in the vicinity of water, 

 but also in woods; in spring it has been taken on the flowers of 

 Salix. 



