418 Syrphidae. 



Geographical distribution: — All Europe and down into Syria and 

 Egypt; towards the north to middle Sweden, and in Finland. 



2. E. aeneus Scop. 



1763. Scop. Entom. Garn. 356,967 (Conops). — 1 794. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 

 IV, 302, 88 {Syrphus) et 1805. Syst. Antl. 244, 57. — 1817. Fall. Dipt. 

 Suec. Syrph. 28, 22 (Stjrphus). — 1822. Meig. Syst. Beschr. III, 384, 2 

 et 1838. VII, 143. — 1843. Zett. Dipt. Scand. II, 668, 14 (Syrphus). — 

 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 333. — 1901. Verr. Brit. Fl. VIII, 501, 2, figs. 348—349. 

 — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 97. — Musca punctata O. F. Mull. Fn. 

 Fridrichsd. 720. 



Male. Eyes touching for a rather short distance. Vertex long, 

 æneous; frons and epistoma yellowish grey pruinose, an elongate 

 central knob black shining and likewise the side mouth edge and the 

 jowls. Vertex with reddish, on the front half with black hairs, frons 

 with yellow and epistoma with pale yellow or whitish hairs. Epistoma 

 a little hoUowed below the antennæ, the knob slightly protruding and 

 epistoma a little retreating below it and a little descending. Occiput 

 blackish æneous, grey at the eye-margin except above, the hairs white 

 below, reddish yellow above. Eyes brown with small, circular, blackish 

 spots which may be a little confluent and especially so above, while 

 generally a transverse space across the suture is unspotted; the spots 

 are smaller, more numerous and less confluent than in sepulchralis ; 

 the eyes bear a somewhat short, pale pubescence only on the upper 

 part. Antennæ small, the basal joints blackish, Ihird joint generally 

 more or less brownish, oval ; the bristles on second joint yellow except 

 a couple above, which are black; arista bare. Thorax æneous black, 

 shining, clothed with moderately long, reddish yellow hairs; scutellum 

 black with similar hairs as on thorax. Pleura with paler or darker 

 yellow hairs. Abdomen black or a little æneous or bluish black, 

 shining ; it is densely clothed with longish, reddish yellow hairs, darker 

 to blackish at the hind margin of second segment. Venter black, 

 shining with long, pale hairs; fourth segment a little incised in the 

 middle of the hind margin, with a tuft of short, black, bristly hairs 

 on each side of the incision. Legs black, apex of femora and base of 

 tibiæ yellow, most broadly on anterior tibiæ, occupying the third or 

 almost half part; middle metatarsi a little pale at the base; hind 

 femora a little thickened and with an impression on the anterior side 

 after the middle, hind tibiæ slightly compressed and curved and hind 

 metatarsi almost not dilated; all tarsi rather broad. Legs haired as 

 usual, the hairs yellow or reddish yellow, only above on the posterior 

 .side of front femora some black hairs and below the apex of hind 



