186 



SYEPHIDjE. 



in the Ivertesz Catalogue as a synonym of quinquelineatus, but as 

 Meigen states that its eyes are spotted, it is more probably 

 synojiymous with E. quinquestriatus, F. E. tabanoides, Jaenn,, 

 seems to be quite a distinct species. 



148. Eristalis taeniops, Wied. 



Enstnlia tfcniops, Wiedemaun, Zool. Mag. i, p. 2 (1818); id., 



Auss. Z^veif^. ii, p. 182 (1830). 

 Eristalis fasciata, Loew in Gerinar, Faun. Ins. Europ. xxiii, 



pi. .\.xiii, 5 (1841). 

 Eristalis torridus, Walker, List Dipt. Brit. Mus. iii, p. (312 (1849). 

 Eristcdis ccyi/ptius, Walker, op. cit. p. 621 (1849). 

 Eristalis communis, Adams, Kansas Univ. Sci. Bull, iii, p. 102 



(1905). 

 Eristnlodes tcpniojms, Mik, Wien. Ent. Zeit. xvi, p. 114 (1897). 

 P Eristalis jnmctifer, Walker, Entom. v, p. 274 (1871). 

 Ilelophilxs pulchriceps, Wiedemaun in Meigen, Syst. Beschr, iii, 



p. 37o (1822). 



6 ?. Head: eyes coffee-brown to dark red-brown ; pubescence 

 on upper part only, with five longitudinal darker stripes, also 

 generally the inner and hind margins darker ; vertical triangle 

 seneous-black, with dark brown pubescence. Erons and face with 

 yellowish-grey dust and concolorous pubescence, becoming darker 

 towards upper part of frons, extreme front margin of latter 

 brownish-orange. Antennae blackish, under side of 3rd joint 

 often more or less orange, arista oi'auge, bare. Pace moderately 

 produced ; a median, narrow, shining black stripe, and a more or 

 less distinct similar, shorter stripe on each side of it, as in quinque- 

 lineatus, F., though generally less conspicuous ; cheeks aeneous, 

 more or less irreyish-dusted, but generally leaving a bare black 

 stripe. Occiput dusted with ash-grey, with a little white pubes- 

 cence below. Thorax: ground-colour com])osed of four dull 

 blackish, not easily distinguishable, nearly contiguous stripes, the 

 two median ones generally not reaching hind margin, these stripes 

 placed on a little lighter j^ellowish-grey dorsum, the whole sur- 

 face covered with rather dense brownish-yellow jMibescence. 

 Pleurae dull aeneous-black, with similar pubescence. Scutellum 

 yellowish, rather shining, indistinctly blackish in middle; some 

 black hairs intermixed with the brown-yellowish pubescence. 

 Abdomen: 1st segment very short, more or less aeneous, 2nd and 

 3rd mainly orange or orange-yellow; anterior margin of 2nd 

 narrowly black, hind margin broadly so and the black colour ex- 

 tended in middle to a varying distance up to middle of segment : 

 3rd segment similar, but the black on hinder half more extensive, 

 often forming a more or less obvious median black stripe, the 

 anterior margin black only for a short distance in the middle ; 

 4th segment in $ similar to 3rd, 4th in S and 5th in $ wholly black. 

 A more or less obvious, white-dusted, arcuate baud across middle of 

 3rd and 4th segments, and in $ across middle of oth also. Extreme 

 hind margins of 2nd and 3rd in J , and of 2nd, 3rd and 4th in $ , 

 narrowly shining aeneous. Pubescence of abdomen all yellowish. 



