ERIOZONA. ASCIA, 105 



Described by Kertesz from a sinc^le ratber damaged 6 from 

 Sikkim, presumably iu the Hungarian Museum ; my nificauda was 

 described from tbree 2 2 iii the Indian Museum from the same 

 locality. The two descriptions are united herewith as they repre- 

 sent only one sex each and shew slight differences. 



82. Eriozona himalayensis, Brun. 



Eriozona himalaijeusis, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. xi, p. 217 (191 o). 



S . Head wholly moderately shining black ; frons with a pale 

 yellowish-grey tomentum when viewed in certain lights ; face with 

 more obvious similarly coloured tomentum or minute pubescence, 

 a median rather broad space being bare ; some longer black hairs 

 on the cheeks. Proboscis black. Eyes with thick dark brown 

 pubescence ; eye-margins as in Ckilosia. Antenna? black, 3rd joint 

 dull, no longer than deep, arista black. Occiput blackish-grey 

 with yellow hairs round tiie margins, with which are intermixed 

 some black hairs behind the vertex. Thorax modei'ately shining 

 black, with, in certain lights, a slight ceneous tinge ; prothorax 

 dull teneous, covered with light brownish-yellow, rather thick 

 pubescence, rest of dorsum covered with black pubescence ; scu- 

 tellum with long thick black pubescence, lower posterior margin 

 with a fringe of short yellowish hairs. Mesopleura and sterno- 

 pleura with thick yellowish pubescence, rest of sides of thorax 

 with sparser black hairs. Abdomen shining black, 3rd and 4th 

 segments dull ;oneous, all covered thickly with bright orange-red 

 pubescence, which becomes more yellowish on 1st segment and on 

 sides of 2nd. Margins of 3i-d and 4th segments, and whole 

 of venter, with black jmbescence. Genitalia dark grey with black 

 hairs. Legs black, with short black pubescence, which is rather 

 long on under side of femora, the hind pair having iu addition two 

 diverging rows of long, widely separated hairs. Wings grey, 

 anterior margin slightly darker; a broad brownish infuscation 

 from round the stigmatic region across the middle of the wing 

 extending half-way to the posterior margin. Halteres yellow, 

 clubs black. 



Length, 13-14 mm. 



Described from several S S from the Kumaon District, "Western 

 Himalavas, 20. vi. 1914 to 20. vii. 1914 ; Onaii, Garhwal District, 

 11,000 ft. (Tgtler). 



This species evidentlv mimics the bee, Bombus hcemorrhoidalis, 

 Smith. 



Genus ASCIA, Mtig. 



Ascia, Meifren, Syst. Beschr. ill. p. ISo (182:>). 



Neonscia, Willistoii, Bull. U.S. ^at. Miis. No. .•?!, p. Ill (l-'^'')- 



Genotype, Syrphus j^todagricus, Fabr. ; bv dcsiLrnation of 

 Westwood (1840). 



Head distinctly broader than tliorax, aeneous ; eyes bare, 

 separated in both sexes, antennal prominence very slight ; face 



