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from the base till near the tip which is brassy, fringed with pale tawny 

 hairs, adorned tvith three pair of large oblong tawny spots : legs pale taivng : 

 wings tinged with pale tainiy ; wing-ribs tawny; veins black, tawny 

 towards the liase and along the fore border ; poisers tawny. Length of ihc 

 body 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



East Indies. 



Syrphis Cothonea, Feni. 



Cyaneiis, ahdomine cyaneo-piceo maculis octo futvis ornato, antmnisferru- 

 gineis articulo 8o supra piceo, pedibus fulvis, alis limpidis. 



Deep blue, shining : head, excepting the crown and the disk of the face, 

 with a hoary covering : eyes red: feelers ferruginous: third joint pitchy 

 above : breast tinged with hoary : abdomen pitchy tvith blue lustre, slightly 

 increasing in breadth from the base to near the tip, much longer and 

 a little broader than the chest, adorned n-ith four pair of tawny spots, 

 second and third pair somewhat triangular, larger than the first, fourth pair 

 mxich smaller than the third : legs tawny : ivings colourless ; wing-ribs 

 tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base and along the fore border ; 

 poisers tawny. I^ength of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



East Indies. 



SvRPHUs niMENsus, Mas. 



JEneus, capite thoracis lateribus scutellofjue flaiis, abdmnine fulvo fasciis 

 nigris (encisque ornato, aniennis fulvis articulo 'So supra piceo, pedi- 

 bus fulvis, femoribus tibiisque posticis fusco cinctis, alis limpidis. 



Head pale yellow ; a bronze 7nark above the base of the feelers, whence 

 a black stripe proceeds to the epistoma ; hind-head black, tinged with hoary, 

 clothed with white hairs : eyes bright red ; feelers tawny ; a pitchy stripe 

 on the third joint; chest and breast brassy; sides and scutcheon yelloiv : 

 abdomen bright taumy, obconical, much longer but not broader than the 

 chest, adorned above with four black hands tvhich include bronze bands, the 

 latter are on the hind borders of the segments; the fourth segment has a 

 black middle stripe, on each side of which the band forms two very long 

 and acute angles ; the fifth is black and includes two pair of tawny spots, 

 the side pair large, the middle pair small : legs yellow ; feet taumy ; a broum 



