164 strphidyE. 



(S 2 • iJ^i^id black ; in c? J eyes unicolorous, pubescent on upper 

 part ; frons prominent, shining black, with long, thick, black 

 pubescence. In $ , frons narrower at vertex tluin at level of 

 antenna?, where it is less than one-third width of head ; black, 

 with dense dark yellowish-brown pubescence on upper part; 

 shining black, with fine black pubescence on lower part ; a grey 

 dust-spot on each eye-margin below middle ; eyes bare. In both 

 sexes epistome moderatel}^ produced, shining black or dark steel- 

 blue, with wliitish pubescence, leaving a broad n)edian bai-e 

 stripe. iVntennie blackish-brown, arista bare. 27iorrt.r black ; in 

 front of suture a very conspicuous (in good specimens) narrow 

 ash-grey stripe, carried uninterruptedly over pleurse (where it 

 bears some whitish pubescence) to the greyish sternopleura ; rest 

 of dorsum witli very dense, short dark brown pubescence ; rest of 

 pleurae yellowish-grey, with some sparse yellow pubescence on 

 pteropleura. Scuiellum seneous-black with brownish pubescence. 

 Abdomen in d black, black-haired ; a metallic-grey broad band 

 on front margin of 2nd segment, with a similar narrower one, 

 almost interrupted, on front margin of 3rd and 4th segments ; 

 hind margins of 2nd and 4th segments metallic grey and that of 

 the 3rd with a broad triangular spot. In $, 1st segment black 

 with a shining feneous hind border and on each outer third dense, 

 very shining, gold-yellow pubescence ; 2nd segment with a fairly 

 broad black front and hiiul margin, connected by a median black 

 stripe widening hindwards, leaving rest of surface to form two 

 large, teneous, green-tinged spots ; 3rd segment greenish-teneons, 

 with a moderately broad black band extending from the hind 

 corners forwards to about middle of segment ; 4th segment 

 similar to 3rd, the black band across middle of segment slightly 

 arcuate ; 5th segnient wholly greenish-jeneous. Pubescence very 

 dense, brownish-yellow, but very short and ren)arkably incon- 

 spicuous. Venter obscurely yellowish on basal half towards sides, 

 remainder black. Legs black, basal half of middle ( d ), or all ( 2 ), 

 tibioe yellowish, pubescence yello\\ish-white. Wings "pale 

 brownish-yellow, darker in (S " (Wiedemann)- in the $ before 

 me almost unit'onuly moderately dark grey, stigaia I'arely darker; 

 squama? yellow with concolorous fringe ; halteres yellowish. 



Length, 9-10 mm. 



Kedescribed mainly from a large 5 in good condition in the 

 British Museum from (Singapore, and a J and § in the Indian 

 Museum. It is recorded also from Bengal, Java, Borneo and 

 Papua. The type J 9 of bomboides, type $ of ohscurata, and type 

 c? of tortuosa are all in the British Museum and are certainly 

 conspeciiic. The synonymy is by Major Austen. Type ( $ ) from 

 Java, in Wiedemann's collection. 



131. Eristalis obliquus, Wied. (PI. IV, fig. 4.) 



Eristalis obliquus, Wiedemann, Anal. Ent. p, 38 (1828) : id., Auss. 

 Zweili. ii, p. 187 (1830j ; de Meijere, Tijd. v. Ent. li, p. 248, 

 pi. vii, figs. 17, 18, abdomen (190S). 



