68 SYliPHlDyE. 



from inoutli-border ; latter browiiisli-orauge along eJge ; proboscis 

 blackish. Antennae black, 1st joint and base of 3rd below more 

 or less orange ; arista bare, black. Occiput ash-grey with shorter 

 yellow fringe on upper half and longer whitish fringe on lower 

 half. In $ , pubescence of eyes less dense; vertex broadly shniing 

 black ; frons widening rapidly to level of anteunje, thence, the 

 sides parallel (in the two $ $ before me the brown marks above 

 antennae deeper and more extended than in 6 ). Tliorax aeneous 

 with dense yellowish-brown pubescence; humeri and sides 

 of dorsum dull brownish-yellow, the pubescence there thicker 

 and more orange in colour; pleurae ash-grey with pale yellow 

 pubescence ; scutellum dull brownish -yellow with all-brown 

 pubescence. Abdomen black, moderately shining : 2nd segment 

 witli a pair of well separated oval orange-yellow spots lying across 

 the middle, the outer ends rather narrowed, passing over side- 

 margins towards anterior corners of segment ; 3rd and 4th seg- 

 ments each with a pair of orange-yellow lunules, less separated in 

 tlie middle line than the spots on the 2nd segment, their upper 

 ends reaching nearly to anterior margin of segment and level 

 with one another, their outer ends passing over side margins near 

 anterior corners ; hind border of 4th segment narrowly orange ; 

 otli segment mainly black, margin more or less narrowly orange. 

 Pubescence of abdomen practically following ground-colour. 

 Venter black, more or less yellowish on basal half. Legs mainly 

 orange ; nearly all the basal half of anterior femora, all the hind 

 femora, a median ring on hind tibiae and last four tarsal joints, 

 dark brown. Soft, fine, rather long, pale yellow pubescence chiefly 

 confined to basal half of outer and under sides of fore femora, 

 diminishing towards tips ; also on hind and under sides of middle 

 femora, and outer and under sides of hind femora, though much 

 sparser on the latter. Tibiae and tarsi with only normal pubescence. 

 Wings clear, stigma and halteres yellowish. 



Length, 12-13 mm. 



Described from 2 S c?a,nd 2 $ $ in the Indian Museum. Simla, 

 7000 ft., 5. V. 1907 ; Tlieog, SOOOffc.. 27. iv. 1907 (both Anncmdale); 

 Mundali, Dehra Dun District, 12,000 ft., 12. v. 1910. One $ in 

 the British Museum from the Khasi Hills, Assam, 1S7 8 (Chennell). 

 The specimen from Theog was originally recorded by me as 

 Syrphus luniger, Meig. A common European species. 



55. Lasiopticus latiniaculatus, sp. nov. (PI. II, figs. 3, 4.) 



(S 2 • J^ecid pale yellow ; vertex rather narrowly deep black 

 with very short black pubescence ; frons vesiculose, with browu 

 pubescence on upper part and whitish on lower part, as also on 

 face; mouth-border and traces of a streak extending upwards 

 from it, also frons around base of antenna?, all narrowly brownish. 

 Autennal 1st and 2nd joints brownish-orange, 2ud narrowly black 

 above, 3rd black, brownish-orange below at base, arista orange, 



