CElillNiE. 



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blackish, a little bright yellow hair behind the eyes. Thorax 

 bright red, with a median black stripe about one-third the width 

 oi; thedcrsum. Sides blackish, with a stripe of briglit yellow hair 

 reaching from the end of the transverse suture nearly to the legs ; 

 posterior margins of the dorsum with yellow hair. Soutellum 

 black, covered with bright yellow hair. Abdomen: 1st segment 

 narrowed immediately behind its base, black, its posterior border 

 reddish-brown ; 2nd segment at base of sanje width as the tip of 

 the 1st, but from its middle rapidly widening ; 3rd segment 

 widening still further, the greatest width of the abdomen being at 

 the junction of the 3rd and 4tli segments, after which the abdo- 

 men rapidly narrows. The 2nd segment is black on the basal 

 half, with a peculiar dirty milk-white stripe on each side of the 

 median line; apical half of segment reddisli-brown, with a fringe 

 of shori; bright yellow hairs on posterior margin. 3rd and 4th 

 segments mainly l)lackish with very short bright yellow liairs; sides 

 of the former distinctly but not conspicuously reddish-brown ; tip 

 of abdomen simihirly coloured. Venter blat-kisli, wliitish at base ; 

 genitalia orange. Ler/s : the coxaj are black ; remainder of anterior 

 legs brow nish -yellow, the tibiae with some whitish reflections. 



Fig. 70. — ParamLvof/aster vei^fiformis, Bruii., wing. 



Hind legs black, knees brownish-yellow, and tips of tarsi yellowish; 

 the tibia? and tarsi with minute white pubescence ; under side of 

 hind tarsi brownish-yellow. Wiiujs pale grey ; stigmatic cell 

 yellowish. There is a blackish infuscation at the tip of the wing, 

 reaching from about the tip of the 1st longitudinal vein to just 

 below the 3rd vein. The appendix in the 1st posterior cell is 

 very distinct, llalteres bright lemon-yellow. 



LciKjth, barely 8 mm. 



])f scribed from a single cf from Dibrugarii, Assam, 17-19. 

 xi. lull (Aboi- pjxpedition, Kenij>). y\i/j>e in the Indian JNluseum. 



Subfamily CI'RlINiE. 



Antennin porrcct, elongate, set on a soniowiiat produced frons ; 

 3rd joint with an apical stylo; 3rd vein with a downward lou|) or 

 angle into the 1st posterior cell, this loop often ending in the 

 stump of a vein as in the Microdontinje ; 4th and otli veins not 

 recurrent, but l)ent up at tip in tiie ordinary 8yrphid fashion ; 1st 

 posterior cell closed nearly on wing-border, tip generally pointed. 



The Cbimin.k are a well-defined group of rather large, wasp-like 

 flies, which also resemble to some extent the flies of the subfamily 



