256 syrphid.t:. 



surface of abdomen nniforii)lj punctured, and covered with short 

 depressed light yellow liairs, whicli are much thicker on List seg- 

 ment. Venter dull liver-bi own. Legs: coxae blackish, with hoary 

 bloom and greyish hairs. Anterior femora dull aeneous-black, a 

 little brownish-yellow at base and tips ; a fringe of pale yellow 

 hairs on under side ; hind femora considerably enlarged, distinctly 

 seneous, covered with yellowish-grey hair ; brownish-yellow at 

 base and tips. Anterior tibiae with basal half brownish-yellow, 

 apical half or thereabouts, blackish ; tips brownish-yellow; whole 

 tibiae with yellownsh-grey hair. Hind tibiae as aeneous as hind 

 femora, considerably larger than anterior pairs, and covered \\ith 

 much more hair. An+erior tarsi moderately briglit brown with 

 vellowish-grey hairs ; hind tarsi blackish above with yellowish-grey 

 hairs, bright i-eddish-brown beloM', incrassate to a normal extent. 

 Wirtgs very pale grey; stigma small, dark brown; halteres pale 

 yellow. 



Lei^tjtJc, 7 mm. 



Described from a unique 5 , in perfect condition in the Indian 

 Museum, from Kurseong, 8. vii. 1908. 



A very handsome species, conspicuous by its cupreous and violet 

 thorax, its densely orange-haired scutellum, the three pale longi- 

 tudinal stripes on its thorax, the suture of which is outlined with 

 whitish. Near aurifrons, Witd., and ulbifrovs, AValk., but dis- 

 tinguished by the black antennae and orange-haired scutellum, 



198. Eumerus seneithcrax, Bnm. 



Eumerus ameithoritx, Brunetti, Eec. Ind. Mus. xi, p. 244 (1915). 



S. Head: eyes contiguous for a comparatively short space 

 only, with short white pubescence. Trons and vertex aeneous, 

 showing various ti]its when viewed from different directions: 

 black hair on lower part of frons, yellow hairs on upper part and 

 on vertex. Pace dull blackish-grej^ with light tomentum which 

 appears vellowish-white when viewed from above. Pace clothed 

 with white hairs. Antennae wholly black, 3rd joint approximately 

 oblong, with obtusely rounded tip. Occiput whitish-grey with a 

 narrow^ fringe of whitish hairs round the margins, some yellow 

 hair on the aiiieous upper ocular margin, w hich is moderately puffed 

 out. In 2 i head almost punctate, sides of frons and face parallel 

 almost to mouth ; pubescence black, long and dense on vertex, 

 extending less densely to base of antennae, but replaced towards 

 eye-margins by shorter yellowish depressed hairs. Face wnth 

 whitish pubescence. Tliorax and scutellum shining aeneous, both 

 rather thickly clothed with brownish-yellow pubescence: dorsum 

 with a pair of widely separated whitish-tomentose stripes and 

 traces of a very narrow median line of the same colour. Pleurae 

 dull aeneous with a little greyish hair. Hind margin of scutellum 

 concolorous. Ahdomen dull aeneous-black, 2nd, 3rd and 4th seg- 

 ments each with a pair of whitish lunulate dust-spots of the usual 



