meCtASpis. 2n:i 



District, 3-10. x. in 16 (Kemp); Travnncore (Aniumdale); South 

 India, l?r)OU ft.; CoimbatorQ, iv. 1915 {Duff). In the British 

 INIuseuin are examples from Belgaum, Bangalore, Coonoor, 

 Purneali, Calcutta and Burma. 



M . transversHS was described from a lonp; series of l)r)th sexes in 

 the Indian Museum from Calcutta and Bangalore. 



Type in Paris Museum. 



1«)1. Megaspis zouatus, Fahr. 



Syrphus zouatus, Fabriciiis, JManr. Ins. ii, p. 3^7 (1787). 

 Si/rphus zonaliii, Fabriciiis, Ent. S^'St, iv, p. 2i)4 {17!)4). 

 Evi^talis zonalis, Wiedemann, Auss. Zweifl. ii, p. 152 (1830). 

 Eristalis Jiavofascialus, Macqnart, Dipt. Exot., Suppl. iv, p. 136 



(1840). 

 ErisUdis inainames, Walker, List Dipt. Brit. Mas. iii, p. 627 (1849). 

 Eristalis andrccnion, id., lijc. cit. 

 Eristalis datomus, id., op. cit. p. 628. 

 Erist(di)> cxterus, id., Ins. Saund., Dipt, i, p. 248 (18r)2). 

 Musca sinensis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. v, p. 2872 (1790). 



S 2 • ffead : cS , eyes contiguous for a short distance; vertical 

 triangle small, black, with dark broun pubescence; frons with 

 black hairs on upper part and black and yellowish hairs mixed on 

 each side of the wrinkled space. I'ace shining black, with gre}'^ 

 dust forming a transverse band below antenna), and more or less 

 grey dust on cheeks ; all these parts with yellowish-grey, moderately 

 long, but inconspicuous pubescence; central bump bare. Antennae 

 blaekish-brown, arista yellowish, basal half plumose (about 9 or 

 10 long hairs) above and below. Occiput black, mirrowly white- 

 toinentose on side m;irgins, with brownisli-yellow hairs on vertical 

 section and \\ bite pubescence on lower margin. In 9 i fi'ons at 

 level of antenna? rather more than one-third the width of the head, 

 narrowing towards vertex and a little wider on lower part. Vertex 

 black with black pubescence ; yellowish at sides with yellow 

 pubescence down to antenna?, leaving the median third down lo 

 the wrinkled space black, with dark brown pubescence. Thoni.v : 

 dorsum black, anterior margin narrowly yellowisli-grey, almost 

 orange at and just behind shoulders; whole anterior half of 

 dorsum covered with dense short yellowish-grey pubescence, 

 hinder half with shorter and very dense blackish-brown pubes- 

 cence, almost unnoticeable ; a bunch of scale-like, long, orange 

 pubescence beliind shoulders, and a fringe of similar pubescence 

 along lower margin of dorsum up to above and a little beyond 

 wing-base. Pleura) yellowish-giey anteriorly, darker posteriorly, 

 with a little pale pubescence throughout. Scutcllum black with 

 very short and dense black erect i)ubesi'ence and a fringe of pale 

 hairs on himl margin. Abdomen: 1st segment black, very short, 

 bare except for a very little yellow pubescence towards sides; 2nd 

 mainly yellowish, about the hind third (varying to less than a 

 fourth) dark blackish-brown, deepest on hind bcn'der ; 3rd and 

 4th mainly i;lack, each with two elongate brownish-yellow spots, 



