90 H. C. EFFLATOUN. 



foicinus Dec, Ins., VI. 98. 1. {Mi/sca) (1776) et éd. Gœtze, VI. 

 45. 1. (Musca) (1782). 



silvaticus Meic, System. Heschreib., III. 388. 8. (1822). 



vulgaris Scop., Entom. Carn., 354. 960. (Conops) (1763). 



vul-pimis MmG., System. Beschrcib., III. 388. 7. (1822); Schin., 

 Vei'h. zool.-bot.. Ges. Wien, VII. 392.3. (1857) et Faiina Austr., I. 

 334. (1882). 



var. alpinus Strobl [nec. Panz.) ^littlicil. Natuiwiss. Ver. 

 Steiermark, XXIX. 185. (1893). 



var. campestiis Meig., Sy.stem. Eeschreib. III. 387. 5. (1822); 

 Macq., Ree. Soc. Sci. Lille, 1827.312. (164) 4. (1827) et Suit, à Buff., 

 I. 505. 12. (1834); Lw., Programm. Posen, 38.4. (1840) et Isis, 1840. 

 574. 4. (1840). 



v(ir. hvrturum Meic, System, lîeschreib., III. 387. 6. (1822) et 

 VII. 143. 4. (1840). 



vulvinus Meig. = Tenax L. car. hortunim Meig. 



DIAGNOSIS: — Antennse blackish; eyes very hairy, some of 

 the hairs being concentrated in two bands; hind tibiae compressed, 

 ciliate on upper and under sides. 



A common large species resembling the Hive Bee. 



DESCRIPTION :^Male: Face with a broad central black 

 stripe, which is shining, and extends from above the antennae down 

 t(. the mouth; on the middle of the face this stripe occupies move 

 tl'.aa one third of the widtb, but it narrows near the mouth, and 

 is quite free from pubescence about its centre; the sides of the 

 face are entirely covered with yellow dust and possess niany yellow 

 hairs; pubescence on occiput is long and shaggy on the upper part, 

 and longer and denser on the lower lialf . Eyes very hairy and there 

 are two rather indefinite striiies of dense brown hairs running 

 down each side of the middle of the eye, the other hairs being 

 more scattered and paler. Antenna; dark brown, thinly covered 

 with yellow dust, with the third joint b?aiing a longthin and bare 

 arista. 



Thorax shining brownisli-black, l)ut rather dull iii front and 

 ail the thorax is somewhat obscured by the abundant, fairly sliort 

 tawny pubescence; it is devoid of bristlcs or hairs except for a 

 tuft of pale hairs on the postalar calli. Sculellum brownish-yel- 

 low, rather hidden by tlie pale hairs (wdiich are of about the same 

 length as those on the postalar calli) which it bears. Abdomen Avith 

 yellowish-orange markings varying very much in extent from al- 

 most absent, up to covering nearly ail the second and third seg- 

 ments, except for some dorsal markings. Pubescence shorter than 



