230 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



tips; tips of the claws black: wings colourless; wing-ribs tawny; veins 

 black, tawny towards the base and along the fore border ; poisers yellow. 

 Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



Cape. 



Syrphus mundus, Mas. 



j^neus, capite scutelloque Jlavis, thoracis lateribusfulvis, pectore chalybeo, 

 abdomine nigro fasciis quinquc fluids ornato, antennis ferrugineis, 

 pedibus fuhis, alis subfascis apice margineque portico limpidis. 



Head pale yelloiv, whitish and clothed with white hairs beneath and 

 behind : eyes coppery ; all the facets very small : mouth tawny : feelers 

 pale ferruginous, darker at the base: chest brassy, clothed with tawny hairs ; 

 sides tawny ; scutcheon yellmv : breast chalybeous, clothed with hoary hairs : 

 abdomen obconical, black, much longer than the chest, clothed on each 

 side of the base with a tuft of tawny hairs, adorned with three broad and 

 two slender yellow bands, fore border and hind border of the first concave in 

 the middle, second slightly concave on the hind border and having a slight 

 angle in advance on the fore border ; third straight ; fourth and fifth 

 tawny , very small : legs pale tawny ; tips of the claws black: ivings brown- 

 ish, colourless at the tips and along the hind borders ; wing-ribs and veins 

 tawny, the latter black towards the tips ; poisers tawny. Length of the 

 body 5 lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. 



East Indies. 



Syrphus tricolor, Mas. 



Nigra, capite scutelloque fiains, abdomine rufo cincto, antennis piceis, 

 pedibus nigris, alis subcinereis fascia latissima abbreviata fusca 

 ornatis. 



Black : head yelloxc, whitish and clothed with whitish hairs behind ; 

 face thinly clothed with black hairs, having a black stripe along half the 

 length to the epistoma : eyes pitchy, thickly clothed with very short black 

 hairs : feelers pitchy : chest clothed with tawny hairs ; scutcheon yellow : 

 abdomen nearly elliptical, a little longer and broader than the chest, 

 adorned with a very broad red, band which occupies nearly half the length : 

 legs black ; foot-cushions pitchy : uings pale gray, with a very large brown 

 spot which extends from the base to beyond the middle and occupies the whole 



