PA 11 AG us. 35 



23. ix. 1911 ; Quetta,v. 1892 (Nurse); Dhikala, Garhwal Districr, 

 base of \\^. Himalayas, 10. iii. 1910; Bijraui, Naini Tal District, 

 19.iii. 1910; Chapra, Bengal; Allahabad, 4.iv. 1906, 6. x. 1905 

 (both lIoivJcU); Maddathorai (Aanandale) ; Peradeuiya, Ceylon, 

 15. vii. 1910. 



28. Paragus luteus, Bnin. 



Paraqm luteus, Brnnetti, Ree. Ind. Mus. ii, p. o2 (1908) ; i, pi. xi, 

 tig! 1, full ins. (1907). 



$ . Head pale yellowish-white, vertex black, \\\i\\ a thin stripe 

 (slightly enlarged in the middle) leading to a large, black, roughly 

 s([uare, shining spot above antennse. AntennJB brown, base paler, 

 J''rons gradually narrowed towards vertex. T/iora.f wholly shining 

 leneous, a whitish hairy stripe, commencing in front of the wings, 

 and reaching downwards; scutellum yellow, base black. Abdomen 

 yellow, basal segment black, and a thin black line almost (but not 

 absolutely) on the border of 2nd segment, a similar line just below 

 centre of 3rd segment, and a black mark on each side at the edge 

 of the 4th segment. Legs all yellow, a brown ring tow ards tip of 

 hind femora. Winr/s absolutely clear, no stigma. 



Length, 5 mm. 



Described from the type in the Indian Museum collection, from 

 Bushire, Persia. 



29. Paragus bicolor, Fair* 



St/rphus bicolor, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iv, p. 297 (1794). 

 Parnffus bicolor, Schiner, Faun. Austr., Dipt, i, p. 2o9 (1862) ; 

 Verrall, Brit. Flies, Syrph. p. 152 (1901) ; auctt. plur. 



(S . Head : face yellow, with a rather narrowly black mouth- 

 edge slightly and indistinctly extended up the middle of the face ; 

 vertex yellowish at tip, bearing short, mostly pale pubescence. 

 Eyes with rather conspicuous whitish pubescence, which has a 

 tendency to run into stripes, which leave tlie front and the back 

 of the eyes less couspicuously hairy, and also the middle narrowlv 

 on at any rate the u])per half. Antennae long ; 3rd joint about 

 1| times as long as 1st and 2nd together, ])ointed, narrow, about 

 five times as long as broad ; brownish above, yellowish-brown 

 below, especially about the base, practically all black in the Quetta 

 specimens ; arista not so long as 3rd joint. Thorax ajneous, with 

 two faint pale lines on disc in front; pubescence all short. 

 Scutellum pale orange over all the tii)(on all apical half in Quetta 

 specimens). ^/K7o»ie/j varying exceedingly in colour, from wbollv 

 black with reddish isolated spots on 2nd and 3rd segments (/'. 

 lacerus) to entirely reddish except base and tip obscurely dark, and 

 even to the abclon)en being wholly yellowish-red except at basal 

 corners (P. testaceus). On the darker forms the short pubrscence 

 tends to black on the disc on liindtM* halves of segments, and forms 



* There are several synonyms which represent European varieties, but these 

 need not be recapiluluted liere. 



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