86 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. XIII, 



Subfamily VOLUCELLINAE. 



Graptomyza flavonotata, sp. nov. 



Simla District, Long. 3I mm. 



Head wholly lemon ^^ellow, sparsely beset with short pale 

 hairs; vertical triangle blacky ocelli red; tip of snout with a few 

 black stiff hairs ; proboscis brownish yellow, black towards tip. 

 Antennae with ist two joints dark brown, bristly, upper half of 

 3rd joint dark brown, lower half brownish, yellow arista micro- 

 scopically pubescent ; antennal prominence shining brownish yellow 

 with some stiff black hairs. 



Thorax lemon yellow. Whole dorsum from anterior to poste- 

 rior margins, but leaving fairly broad side margins, shining black, 

 with rather dense short pale yellow pubescence. Two small 

 oval, well separated, lemon-coloured spots on hind margin, placed 

 longitudinally. Scutellum yellow, with a slightly brownish tinge 

 and a marginal fringe of long stiff pale bristly hairs. Sides of 

 thorax black ; an inverted pear-shaped pale lemon yellow spot 

 of considerable size on sternopleura, with two smaller oval ones 

 placed longitudinally lower down, one under the larger spot, the 

 other under the wing base. A round pale yellow spot on the pro- 

 pleura. 



Abdomen brownish yellow, darker brown on apical half ; 2nd 

 segment with three black spots on hind margin, the outer two 

 oval, placed longitudinally and clear of the side margin, the 

 middle one roughly triangular, the apex pointing forward ; 3rd 

 segment with two similar oval side spots, the oval middle one 

 placed nearly on anterior margin ; 4th segment with a pair of oval 

 side spots considerably obscured by the brownish ground colour. 

 Whole abdomen minutely pale pubescent. 



Legs lemon yellow, hind coxae and tips of tarsi blackish ; tip 

 of hind femora broadly and hind tibiae and tarsi wholly black. 

 The minute pubescence is yellow or black respectively, following 

 the ground colour. 



Wings almost clear, stigma pale brown, halteres lemon yellow. 



Described from a single specimen in the Indian Museum 

 taken between Kufri and Phagu, 2r-v-i6 {N. Annandale and 5. 

 Kemp). 



Subfamily ERISTALINAE. 



Eristalis, Latr. 



The species of this genus in the East are very numerous and 

 much further study is required even of those already described 

 before we can consider them at all well known. Many were 

 described from unique specimens, and do not appear to have 

 been met with since, whilst probablv some of Walker's types have 

 been lost. Many are very closely allied and require to be studied 

 from numerous or at least several specimens of each, side by 



