218 strphidjE. 



blackish towards tips, tlie colour forming a fairly definite sub- 

 apical ring on hind pair. Pubescence of legs yellowish or white. 

 Winr/s pnle grey, anteriorly pale brown for a short distance ; 

 halteres pale orange. 



Length, 14-15 mm. 



Described from a 6 and 2 from Quetta, viii. 1902 and vi. 1903 

 {Col. Nurse), and from a S in the British Museum. A dusty- 

 looking species wiiich cannot possibly be confounded wqth any 

 other described herein. Originally described from Baghdad. 

 Type in Paris Museum. 



171. Merodon albifasciatus, Macq. 



Merodon albifasciatus, Macqiiait, Dipt. Exot. ii, 2, p. 71, pi. xiii, 

 fig. 2, full insect, 2«, head in profile (1842). 



$ . " Face with whitish tomentum and pubescence ; no black 

 band ; frons with yellowish-white tomentum and pubescence, and 

 a green band in the middle. Antenna? with 1st joint black, 2nd 

 testaceous (3rd missing). Eyes with a little grey pubescence. 

 Thorax with yellow pubescence and tomentum forming five 

 stripes *. Abdomat punctate, nearly bare, somewhat shining 

 black. 1st segment black ; 2ud testaceous, with whitish 

 tomentum, hind border with a black band widened in middle ; 

 3rd black with a nearly straight band of white tomentum ; 4th 

 with a similar band which is a little bent in the middle f ; 

 5th all black ; incisions of segments white. Venter bare ; first 

 three segments tawny, last two black. Legs: femora black, with 

 W'hite pubescence ; front and middle pairs with tawny knees ; hind 

 pair a little curved ; tibiae tawny, fore pair yellow at base, hind 

 pair with a black median ring ; tarsi tawny. Wings a little 

 yellowish, a short appendix on inner side of outer margin of 1st 

 posterior cell, [3rd vein very looped.] 



" Indes Orientales." Length, 12 mm. 



Type in Paris Museum. The species requires absolute con- 

 firmation as Indian. 



Genus MALLOTA, Meig. 



Mallota, Meigen, Syst. Beschr. iii, p. 377 (1822). 

 Imatisma, Macquart, Dipt. Exot. ii, 2, p. 67 (1842). 

 ZettersteiUia, llondani, Nuov. AnuaL See. Nat. Bologna, (2) ii, 

 p. 452 (1844). 



* Judging from Macqiiart's figure, the dorsum of the thorax is better 

 described as yellowish with four longitudinal black stripes. 



t In the figure, the pale bands on the 3rd and 4th segments are shown 

 distinctly angulate, especially that on the 4th, which in the middle nearly 

 reaches the anterior margin of the segment, with its two ends nearly on the 

 hind margin. 



