SPlI.EIlol'llorilA. 



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segment black, with rvu indefinite arched pale band, oi" mainly 

 orange-yellow with an indefinite black mark about the base. 

 Venter blackish, pale bands corresponding to those on dorsum 

 more or less definite. Pubescence of dorsum black, except on 

 spots and sides of 2nd segment, where it is yellow. Leys yellow 

 with about apical third of hind femora, also basal and apical third 

 of hind tibia?, black'. Eest as in /. scutellaris. 



Length, 7-8 nnn. 



Apart from the absence of processes on the hind trochanters, 

 the shorter 3rd antennal joint, the black-haired scutellum and 

 the black in the hind tibitc distinguish this species easily from 

 Isch'wdon scutellaris, and the latter character from all other 

 Oriental species of Spliarophoria known to me. 



Coorg, S. India, 15-20. x. 1915 {Fletchev) ; atove Tura, Assam 

 {Kemp). Numerous other specimens (data not recorded) have come 

 before me. Described by Wiedemann from his own and Wester- 

 mann's collections, from Java ; also recorded from Ceylon, Sumatra 

 and Xew Guinc^a. 



7U. Sphaerophoria viridsenea, Bnin. (PI. Ill, figs. 7, 8.) 



Spharophoria, "form 4," viridccneu, Brunetti, Rec. lud. Mus. xi, 

 p. 210 (19lo). 



S $. //m(^ yellow. In cJ , a small black triangle immediately 

 above base of antennae, joined to a broad black shining median 

 stripe on face, one-third of the width from eye to eye and con- 

 tinued very narrowly along extreme lower margin of cheeks. 

 Antennte orange with about upper half brown, or wholly brown, 

 arista brown ; proboscis blackish, occipital fringe whitish. In $ , 

 vertex dark seneous or shining i)lack, with a broad black stripe 

 running thence to base of antennae, the stripe both on frons and 

 face varying in width in individuals. Thorax dark a?neous-green 

 without signs of greyish stripes : pubescence varying from yellow to 

 brown, l^istiiict large callus-like yellow spots on humerus, side 

 margins of dorsum to suture, mesopleura and sternopleura, all 

 contiguous; one such spot also on propleura, and behind wing- 

 roots. Eest of ground-colour of pleura; shining blackish or 

 leneous. Scutellum all yellow with pale yellow pubescence. 

 Abdomen black ; 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments with a median yellow 

 band of uniform width, but very nuich broader in 6 , occupying 

 the greater part of the latter two segments; 5th in 6 orange- 

 brown, middle of hind margin narrowly excised; in $ mainly 

 black, but the anterior corners broadly yellow, (reiiitalia in J 

 entirely orange-brown, in $ black. Venter mainly yellowish. 

 Pubescence of abdomen all pale and short except towards sides at 

 base. Lqis yellow, hind tarsi l)rowni>h, pubescence of legs pale 

 yellow. Win'js as long as abdomen, quite clear ; stigma brownish ; 

 halteres bright orange. 



Lenijdi, about 7-8 mm. 



