STRPHUS. 89 



71. Syrphus fulvifacies, Briin. 



Hyrphiis fulvifacies, Bruiietti, llec. Ind. Mus. viii, p. 161 (1913). 



(S 2 . Head ( $ ) : eyes bare ; frons twice as wide at level of 

 antenna? (where it forms one-third of the head) as at vertex ; all 

 dull bhack, but with a brassy tinge for a short space below the 

 bhack vertical triangle and above the antenna! prominence ; 

 black hairs from vertex to antennae ; face wholly, from base of 

 antennie to lower margin, bright golden-orange, rather deeper on 

 central knob, which is of moderate size ; mouth black, but mouth- 

 border yellow with a small black spot at extreme tip of snout ; 

 proboscis dark brown ; face with a little short black pubescence 

 on sides of prominence, the remaining surface \\\i\\ very soft pale 

 yellow pubescence ; antennae dull black, basal two-thirds of under 

 side of ;ird joint dull reddish-brown, arista black ; occiput grey 

 with a complete marginal fringe of uniformly-sized, bright yellow, 

 scale-like hairs*. Thorax dull blackish, with soft pale brownish- 

 yellow hairs, so fine and sparsely placed that the dorsum appears 

 almost bare except towards and on the lateral margins, where it 

 is bright golden-yellow and much thicker in texture and quantity. 

 Pleurae and wing-bases covered with similar hair ; sides of thorax 

 cinereous-grey ; scutellum yellow, with rather copious long hiack 

 pubescence. Abdomen ovate, black ; a pair of elongate yellow 

 spots in centre of lateral margins of 2ud segment, their inner 

 ends rounded but well se|)arated from one another ; a yellowish 

 band in midille of 3rd and 4th segments, only their anterior 

 corners reaching side margins ; these bands are emarginate in 

 middle, more conspicuously so behind ; both are of uniform width 

 with the spots on the lind segment. Extreme posterior margin of 

 oth segment yellow. Pubescence of abdomen black, even on the 

 yellow parts, but there is the nsual amount of hair about the 

 anterior corners, where it is bright yellow. Venter blackish, the 

 yellow bands present about the same appearance as on the dorsum. 

 Ler/s: coxK, nearly all the basal half of anterior femora, all hind 

 femora except tips, and rest of hind legs wholly, except basal third 

 of their tibiae, black ; remainder of legs yellow, tips of anterior 

 tarsal joints with a row of black bristles, giving a darkened 

 appearance to these parts ; anterior tarsi with short black bristly 

 h;iirs below. Hind tibiae \\\t\\ golden-yellow ])ubescence on inner 

 side; hind tarsi with similar pubescence below. Ulnr/s clear, 

 subcostal cell brownish-yellow ; halleres yellow. 



Leiif/th, 9 mm. 



Described from a single $ (in the Indian Museum), Kotung, 

 26. ix. 1918. One d , Kashmir, 8000-9U(»0 ft., vi. 1901 (Nursf). 



This species is remarkably like the very common Palaearctic 

 S. I'ibesii, L., and mav possibly be a variety of it, unless the limits 



* In (5 , vertical triangle us long as disttinee of contiguity of eyes ; bliickisli, 

 wit li 3'ellow dust and pubescence ; frons and faco _vellow-du->t,ed, fornicr witli 

 •black liairs and witli a sliining black Bcniicircular space above base of antennae. 



