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SYRPHIByE. 



stripes very obvious ; scutellum coneolorous, bind margia very 

 narrowly brownisli-yello*' ; dorsum witli a few sbort black hairs ; 

 sides of thorax coneolorous, a little pale yellow hair about pleurae 

 and base of wings. Abdomen blackish, Isl segment pale whitish- 

 yellow except for the dark posterior corners ; 2nd, 3rd and 4th 

 segments each with a pair of well separated oblong yellowish spots 

 (about as wide as one-third the length of the segment), placed 

 towards but not on the anterior margin, their extremities attaining 

 the lateral margins of the segments ; a little yellowish hair at the 

 sides of the abdomen, basally ; venter blackish. Legs brownish- 

 yellow ; coxae and extreme base of femora black ; tips of tarsi a 

 little brown ; femora with a very little pale hair. Wings clear 

 yellowish-grey ; stigmatic region of subcostal cell yellowish ; 

 tegul^e brown with yellow fringe ; halteres brownish-j^ellow. 



Length, 8 mm. 



Described from one 5 in the Indian Museum from Dibrugarh, 

 Assam, 17. xi. 1911 {Kemp). 



106. Ehingia laticincta, Brun. 



li/iinf/ia hiti'chicta, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 58 (1908); i, 

 pi. xi, fig-. 7, abdomen (1907). 



(S 2 • H^iid : snout tawny ; lower part of head shining grey ; 

 antennae tawny ; eyes quite contiguous as far as vertex ; frons in 

 $ of about the usual width in the genus, cinereous-grey. Thorax 

 cinereou.s-gre3% with aeneous reflections and soft black and grey 

 hiiir ; four blackish longitudinal stripes, not always very distinct, 

 the two outer ones interrupted at the suture, the two inner ones 

 close together on the front, diverging widely posteriorly, where 



Fig. 28 ff. — Bhiiigia laticincta, Bran., typical form S 9' abdomen. 



they become diffused and meet the ends of the outer pair just iu 

 front of the scutellum. Scutellum unicolorous, similarly haired, a 

 row of stiff black hairs on posterior edge, from wliich a fringe of 

 soft pale yellow hair hangs down. Abdomen bright tawny, with 

 soft yellow hair, thickest at the base on the sides ; 1st segment 

 very narrowly black-edged, 2nd, 3rd and 4th with a broad black 

 band on posterior border, interrupted in the centre in front, but 

 continuous on the extreme edge of the segment ; a vertical long 



