248 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA 



pale brown ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base 

 and along the fore border; poisers tawny. Length of the body 6^ lines; 

 of the wings 12 lines. 



Canada. 



Eeistalis exteeus, Fern. 



Niger, abdomine vitta hasali maculisque duabus fulvis ornato, pedibus 

 nigris, alis livipidis basi nigris fascia brevi nigro-fusca ornatis. 



Black : head tinged with gray, clothed with short tawny hairs and on 

 the crown with short black hairs: eyes red: chest thickly clothed with 

 tawny hairs, which are longest and brightest on each side : breast with a 

 hoary tinge, clothed with pale hairs : abdomen obconical, not longer than 

 the chest, clothed with tawny hairs, adorned at the base with a broad tawny 

 band which is partly interrupted by a small angular ferruginous spot ; a 

 large triangular taivny spot on each side of the fore borders of the second and 

 third segments : legs black, fringed with short black hairs : wings colourless, 

 blackish at the base ; a large irregular blackish brown spot bordered by paler 

 brown extends half across the wing from the middle of the fore bordei- ; cross- 

 vein of the first posterior areolet clouded with brovjn ; wing-ribs and veins 

 black ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



East Indies. 



Eeistalis MULTibAEius, Fem. 



Niger, thorace trivittato, scutello fulvo, abdomine ferrugineo-fulvofasciis 

 duabus anticis et segmentorum 3i 4i-que discis nigris, antennis piceis 

 basi nigris, pedibus fulvis nigro variis, femoribus posticis crassis, alis 

 limpidis. 



Black : head mostly covered with pale buff down, clothed with whitish 

 hairs ; crown clothed with short black hairs : eyes adorned with alternate 

 red and black bands: third joint of the feelers pitchy, nearly elliptical, 

 longer than the fust and second joints ; sixth tawny, black towards the 

 tip : chest adorned with a pale grayish buff covering which is interrupted by 

 three black stripes; scutcheon tawny: abdomen tawny with a ferruginous 

 tinge, obconical, not longer than the chest, black at the base; a black band 



