210 Records of the Indian Museum. [ Vor, Gea 
Dideoides ovata, Brun. 
One o Sikkim v-1912; one ? Shillong 10o—12-x-14 [Kemp]. 
ASARCINA, Macq. 
his is not a good genus but I collect under this heading 
the species referred to it. Meijere regards it as a subgenus, Bezzi 
as a valid genus. 
Syrphus (Asarcina) aegrotus, F. 
One of the commest species in the East, and easily recognized 
by the broad blackish band across the middle of the wings. This 
band sometimes extends to the base of the wing, and a specimen 
of this nature in the Indian Museum bears a label Melanostoma 
hemiptera, Big. Meijere records it from several places in Java and 
the Indian Museum has it from a wide range of localities. 
Syrphus (Asarcina) ericetorum, F. 
S. salviae, Wied. 
S. saluiae, W., is identical with ericetorum, F., described 
originally from Africa, and the latter name will have to be used for 
it. Meijere records it from Java, the Indian Museum has it from 
many localities and I took two at Colombo in June, 1904. Two 
were taken at Simla viii-14 by Capt. Evans, R.E., and two at 
Cherrapunji, Assam, 4400 ft., 2—8-x-14 [Kemp]. 
Syrphus (Asarcina) consequens, Walk. 
Meijere records this species from Sumatra, Java and Papua, 
and confirms Osten Sacken’s suggestion that striatus, Wulp, is 
synonymous. 
The following two species have been recently described as 
belonging to A sarcina. 
A. biroi, Bezzi, Ann. Mus. Hung. vi, 902 (1908). 
A. morokaensis, Meij., Tijd. v. Ent. li, 308 o@ @, pl. vili, 33 
(1908), Papua. 
Meijere records bivoi from several localities in Papua. 
SYRPHUS, F. 
Dr. Meijere gives a table of a number of species of Svrphus 
and records sevarius, Wied., from Pattipola, Ceylon (200 metres), 
[ Biro}. 
Syrphus balteatus, DeGeer. 
Very common in the Himalayas and also in the plains of 
India and Assam, extending to Java, China and Japan. 
