MYOPA. 379- 



297. Myopa picta, Panz. 



Mi/opa 2)icta, Panzer, Faun. Germ, liv, p. 22 (1798) ; Schiner, 

 "Faun. Austr. i, p. liSd (18G2J. 



J § . Head : irons with almost parallel sides, yellowish or 

 orauge-yellow, with a few fine liairs; ocellar triangle at extreme 

 \ertex, overhanging the occiput, vertex often brown, with some 

 long bristly black hairs ; rest of head dull milk-white ; mouth- 

 border, outer margin of cheeks and occiput with long, rather 

 shaggy, white pubescence ; a distinct small round spot on either 

 side in middle of lower part of cheek, one or two indefinite spot& 

 near the eyes, and two much larger spots on each side in middle 

 of side margins of occipur. Antennae dull orange-yellow, 3rd joint 

 in j)rofile practically circular, dead black, sometimes orange-brown 

 in 2 ; the ari>ta is much thickened basally and is orange, with the 

 jiliform tip black. Proboscis mucli longer thau in most species. 

 Thorax : dorsum black, the slight depressions delineating the 

 various parts more or less greyish-dusted ; side margins and 

 ])leurie orange-brown, with whitish or silvery reflections ; scutellum 

 black. There are fairly strong bristly hairs on the side margins 

 of the dorsum and the hind margin of the scutellum, while the 

 remainder of the surface has short bristly pubescence ; pleura) 

 bare except for some bristly hairs on the sternopleura. Abdomen 

 orange-brown with whitish reflections, and with a more or less- 

 interrupted dorsal black stripe composed of a series of fairly large 

 black spots, one in tlie centre of the front margin of nearly every 

 segment ; indefinite bands of yellowish-grey dust on basal margins 

 of hinder segments. Pubescence of abdomen short, black, bristly. 

 Legs orange-brown, with whitish reflections ; femora with two 

 median black bands and generally one subapical or apical band ; 

 anterior tibiae with three and hind tibicc with four similar black 

 bands ; tarsi to the apex, uith pulvilli and claws (except tips of 

 latter) orange-brown. Pubescence of legs black and bristly, 

 softer on femora (very short on upper side of middle pair), and in 

 the tibia) denser on the black rings. \Vi7ir/s pale grey, with 

 anterior [)art, and the remainder here and there, darker; there is 

 a conspicuous darker grey si)ot of seme size in the nearly clear 

 1st posterior cell ; squamae milk-white ; halteres orange-brown. 



Lenr/th, S mm. 



Redescribed from a J and $ taken in co)>. by Col. Nurse at 

 Quetta, iii. 1903, and in perfect condition. This European species 

 is recognized with ease by the peculiar dark grey spot in the 

 1st posterior cell, together with the conspicuou.-ly ringed logs ami 

 the two spots on each side of the occiput. 



298. Myopa dorsalis, Fah-. 



Ntfopa (lorstilia, Fabricuis, Ent. Sj.<t. iv, p. ■'^)!>7 (1701) ; Schiuer, 

 Faun. Austr. i, p. 386 (1862). 



(S $. Head: vertex and upper jmrt of frons brow nisli-orange ; 

 vertical triangle blackish ; ocelli dark brown ; frons towards 



