234 INSECTA SAUNDEKSIANA. 



with hoary, clothed with hoary hairs: abdomen pitchj , obconical, shining 

 ■with blue lustre, a little broader and much longer than the chest, adorned 

 with two broad interrupted yellow bands, which on each side of the ijiterrup- 

 tion are angular on the fore border and rounded on the hind border : legs 

 pitchy ; shanks tawny ; hind-shanks pitchy towards the tips : wings colour^ 

 less ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base and along the forg 

 border ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 9 

 lines. 



Van Dienien's Land. 



Syrphds Ambustus, Mas. 



^neo-viridis, capite cyaneo, abdomine nigro maculis sex cyaneo-fulvis or- 

 nato segmentorum lateribus marginibusque posticis aneo-viridibus, 

 an tennis piceis subtus ferrugineis, pedibus nigris,aUs subcinereis. 



Head steel blue, with a dull pale tawny tinge on each side, clothed 

 with black hairs ; hind part and underside tinged with hoary and clothed 

 with hoary hairs ; peristoma bright taivny : eyes brassy red ; facets on ihe 

 fore-crown larger than elsewhere : feelers pitchy, ferruginous beneath : 

 chest and breast brassy green : chest clothed with tawny hairs ; scutcheon 

 ferruginous, clothed with black hairs : breast tinged with hoary, clothed 

 with hoary hairs : abdomen black, obconical, much longer but not broader 

 than the chest, brassy green on the sides and hind borders of the segments, 

 adorned with three pair of lawny spots which shine ivith blue lustre ; first 

 pair very narrotv ; second and third pair larger : legs blach, thinly clothed 

 with pale hairs ; knees ferruginous ; feet clothed beneath with tawny down: 

 ivings slightly gray ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; 

 brands pale brown ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the 

 wings 8 lines. 



New South Wales. 



SvEPHUs Pedius, Mas. 



/Eneo-viridis, abdomine nigro macidis sex fulvis ornato, apiceceneo, anten- 

 nis ferrugineis, pedibus fulvis, alis subfulvis. 

 Metallic green : face mostly adorned with a pale tawny covering ; eyes 

 red : sucker and feelers ferruginous : chest clothed with tawny hairs : ab- 

 domen black, much longer but not broader than the chest, slightly widening 



