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black ; antennae black, with arista feathered with long hairs on the basal half; palpi 

 yellow ; face golden-yellow ; proboscis black ; thorax yellow-grey, sub-distinctly 

 striped, and covered with yellow hairs, which are very thick on the sides and under 

 part ; abdomen dark grey, thickly covered with tawny hairs ; wings flavescent, with 

 little cross veins nebulous ; legs hairy and spinose ; femora grey, coated with yellow 

 down ; tibise and tarsi testaceous. Length, 7 — 8 mm. Very common. 



Sp. 2. — S. MERDAEIA, F. 



This species is very similar to the last, but always smaller, paler in colour, and 

 much less hairy. Colour dull grey ; antennae black ; palpi white ; proboscis black ; 

 thorax yellow-grey, sub-distinctly striped ; abdomen dark grey, thinly covered with 

 pale yellow hairs ; wings grey, with little cross veins clouded ; legs testaceous, with 

 the femora black and bare. The colour and degree of flocculence vary very much 

 in different specimens ; some closely resembling examples of -S. stercoraria. Kon- 

 dani says that these two species pair together, and he considers them to be only 

 varieties of the same. Length, 6 — 7 mm. Very common. 



Sp. 3.— S. CINERARIA, Mgn. 



This is described as being black, covered with grey tomentutn ; frontalia 

 red ; antennae black, with plumose arista ; face yellow ; palpi rufous ; thorax light 

 ash-grey, marked with two dark lines and bristle spots ; the sides are clothed 

 with grey hairs ; wings with yellow roots ; legs ciliated with fine bluck hairs ; bases 

 of the femora as well as the tarsi black, tibiae and front parts of the femoi'a bright 

 yellow. Length, 6 — 7 mm. Curtis* records the capture of this rare fly. 



Sp. 4. — S. SCYBALARIA, L. 



This fine yellow species has the frontalia bright red ; face yellow ; antennae with 

 arista yellow ; palpi pale ; proboscis piceous ; thorax grey, covered with yellow 

 tomentum ; abdomen dark grey, clothed with rufous tomentum, and having sub- 

 distinct black transverse incisions ; wings dark yellow, with third and fourth long 

 veins converging towards the apex, and the outer cross vein much curved ; legs 

 testaceous, covered with scattered bristles and numerous yellow hairs. Length, 

 10 mm. Rare. 



Sp. 5. — S. ANALis, Mgn. 



This little slender species has the frontalia wide and rufous ; face yellow, with 

 white reflections ; antennae rufous, with the third joint partly brown ; palpi pale ; 

 proboscis black ; thorax dark yellow-grey, with sub-distinct dark stripes, and bristle 

 spots ; sides grey ; scutellum brown ; abdomen brown, coated with yellow hairs ; 

 hinder segments rufous ; wings yellow, with long veins parallel ; inner cross veins 

 thickly clouded, outer ones very slightly nebulous and straight ; legs testaceous, 

 with numerous spines and bristles, as well as hairs, upon the femora and tibiae. 

 Length, 5 — 6 mm. Rare. 



* Brit. Ent., 405. 



