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Genus CHRYSOTOXUM, Meiyen. 



Chrysotoxum antiquum, Mas. 



JEnenm, capi/e tlioracis maculis quaiiior scutello pectorisque maculin 

 duahus JIavis, abdomine purpureo-nigro fasciis duabus interruplis 

 maculisqv£ duahus fulvis ornato, ventre nigra maculis quatuor fuliis, 

 anlennis nigris hasi rufis, pedibus fulvis, femoribus hasi nigris, alis 

 subcinereis ad costani fulvis. 



Head bright yellow above, wliilisli and clotlied with pale yellow hairs 

 in front and beneath ; a pitchy stiij^e betv/een the feelers and the episloma : 

 eyes coppery red above, pitchy beneath where the facets are smallest : 

 feelers black ; first and second joints dark red, beset with very short black 

 bristles; sixth joint tawny: c/test and breast brassy, clothed with tawny 

 hairs : chest adorned u-ith two yellow spots on each side ; scutcheon yellow 

 with a pitchy spot in the disk : n. large yelloiv mark on each side of the 

 breast : abdomen purplish black, longer and broader than the chest, adorned 

 with two interrupted arched taivny bands and near to the lip with two very 

 small tawny spots ; underside black, shining, adorned ivith four large taicny 

 spots : legs tawny ; thighs black totvards the base : ivings slightly gray, dark 

 tav:ny along the fore border, paler in the disk where the two colours blend ; 

 wing-ribs and veins ferruginous, the latter pitchy towards the tips ; poisers 

 tawny. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



East Indies. 



Chrysotoxum indicum, Mas. 



^neum, capite thoracisque vittis duabus, scutellique margine JIavis, scu- 

 tello pectore ahdomineque fulvis huic fasciis quatuor nigris, antennis 

 ferrugineis, apice piceis, pedibus fulvis, alis limpidis. 



Head bright yellow, whitish and clothed with whitish hairs behind and 

 beneath ; a tawny stripe between the feelers and the epistoma, on ap- 

 proaching which it becomes pitchy : eyes pitchy ; all the facets very small : 

 feelers ferruginous, pitchy towards the tips : chest and breast brassy .■ chest 

 tvith a yellotv stripe on each side ; scutcheon tawny ivith a yelloiv hind bor- 

 der ; breast partly tauny : abdotnen tawny, yellow towards the base, pitchy 

 at the tip, adorned ivithfour arched black bands ; the first and second nar- 

 row and entire, joined together by a short middle stripe, third and fourth 



