246 IKSECTA 8AUNDERSIANA. 



hairs ; scutcheon tawny : abdomen taumy, obconical, as long as the chest, 

 black with the exception of the hind borders of the segments for one-third of 

 the length from the tip, having a black stripe along the back : legs black, 

 fringed with black hairs ; shanks pitchy, yellow at the base ; middle-shanks 

 tawny ; claws tawny at the base ; foot-cushions tawny ; hind-thighs rather 

 thick; hind-shanks slightly curved: wings nearly colourless, slightly tawny 

 along the fore border ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; 

 poisers tawny. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 

 ? 



Ebistalis Oxycanos. 



Niger, scutello ferrugineo, abdomine fasciis tribus interruptis fulvis or- 

 nato, antennis pedibusque nigris,femoribus apice tibiisque hasi fulvis, 

 alis subcinereis. 

 Black : head covered with tawny down, clothed with tawny hairs ; 

 crown clothed with black hairs ; a broad stripe between the feelers and the 

 epistoma : eyes black : feelers black : chest tinged ivith brotvn, thickly 

 clothed with short tawny hairs ; scutcheon ferruginous : breast tinged with 

 gray: abdomen velvety, nearly obconical, a little longer than the chest, 

 clothed with tawny and black hairs, adorned with three interrupted tawny 

 bands, the first band is on each side of a somewhat triangular form 

 ivhose inner border is concave; the second and the third are paler, each 

 forms two curves, and the second terminates in a ferruginous spot on each 

 side ; hind borders of the segments and the whole of the underside grayish 

 black, shining : legs black, clothed with short black hairs ; shanks towards 

 the base and tips of the thighs taivny ; foot-cushions dark tawny ; claws 

 tawny with black tips : wings slightly gray ; wing-ribs pitchy : veins black, 

 pitchy at the base and along the fore border ; brands dark tawny ; poisers 

 tawny. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 9\ lines. 



Eristalis Eve res, Mas. 



Niger, scutello abdominis maculis quatuor scgmentortim marginibus pos- 



ticis ventreque fulvis, antennis piceis, pedibus fulvis, femorihus nigris, 



tibiis larsisque apice nigris, alis limpidis basifuscis ad costam sub- 



fulvis. 



Black . head tinged with hoary, clothed with tawny down and hairs 



excepting a black shining stripe between the feelei-s and the epistoma. 



