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SYBPHID^. 



122. Volucella ruficauda, Brun. 



Volucella ruficauda, Briinetti, Rec, Ind. Mus. ii, p. 61 (1908) ; i, 

 pi. xi, fig. 13, wing (1907). 



(S 2 ■ Sead black; epistome well produced, shining black ; eyes 

 densely hairy in S , distinctly hairy, but to a much less extent, 

 in $ ; vertex crowned by a tuft of long bright yellow liairs ; eyes 

 in $ separated by the narrow shining black Irons. Antennae ferru- 

 ginous ; first two joints nearly black. Thorax black with black 

 hair, dorsum covered with dense long bright ferruginous-red hair 

 which also covers the bright ferruginous-red scutelluiu. Abdomen 

 black with rather thick black hair ; posterior border of 3rd seg- 

 ment and the whole of the 4th and 5th segments covered with 

 yellowish-red hair. Venter entirely black with black hair. Legs 

 slender, wholly black with short black hair. Wings pale yellowish- 

 grey, a rather large brown irregular spot in the centre of the fore 

 border, and reaching half-way across the wing; a brown suffusion 

 along the recurrent portions of the subapical and postical (4th arid 

 5th longitudinal) veins and extending to the costa about the 

 termination of the marginal cell. Between this suffusion and the 

 outer margin the wing is darker grey ; base of wing slightly 

 yellowish ; halteres black. 



Length, 14-15 mm. 



Described from eight S 6 and eight $ $ in the Indian Museum 

 collection from 8ikkira. 



123, Volucella lividiventris, Brun. 



Volucella lividiventris, Bruuetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 62 (1908). 



Fig. 33. — Volucella lividiventris, Brun., head iu profile. 



S $ . Very near ruficauda, but distinct. The hair on the 

 thoracic dorsum is distinctly grev, the tuft of hair on the vertex 

 is greyish-white, while the venter has the 2nd and 3rd segments 

 livid grey with unicolorous hair. A bunch of grey hair is found 

 on each of the two basal abdominal segments at the sides, and the 



