90 H. C. EFFLATOUN. 



porcinus Dec, Ins., VI. 98. 1. (Musca) (1776) et ed. Goetze, VI. 

 45. 1. (Musca) (1782). 



silvaticus Meig., System. Beschreib., III. 388. 8. (1822). 

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



vulpinus Meig., System. Beschreib., III. 388. 7. (1822); Schin., 

 Verb, zool.-bot.. Ges. Wien, VII. 392.3. (1857) et Fauna Austr., I. 

 334. (1882). 



var. alpinus Strobl (nee. Panz.) Mittheil. Naturwiss. Ver. 

 Steiermark, XXIX. 185. (1"893). 



var. campestris Meig., System. Beschreib. III. 387. 5. (1822); 

 Macq., Rec. Soc. Sci. Lille, 1827.312. (164) 4. (1827) et Suit, a Buff., 

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

 574. 4. (1840). 



var. hortorum Meig., System. Beschreib., III. 387. 6. (1822) et 

 VII. 143. 4. (1840). 



vulpinus Meig. = Tenax L. var. hortorum Meig. 



DIAGNOSIS: — Antennae 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 

 to the mouth; on the middle of the face this stripe occupies move 

 than one third of the width, 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 many yellow 

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

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

 aie two rather indefinite stripes of dense brown hairs running 

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

 more scattered and paler. Antennae dark brown, thinly covered 

 with yellow dust, with the third joint bearing a long thin and bare 

 arista. 



Thorax shining brownish-black, but rather dull in front and 

 all the thorax is somewhat obscured by the abundant, fairly short 

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

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

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

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

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

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

 ments, except for some dorsal markings. Pubescence shorter than 



