IQI5.| E. BRUNETTI: Notes on Oriental Syrphidae. 211 
The following new species were described by Meijere recently 
Bid. veut, li, 1908) :— 
luteifrons, p. 304, ©, pl. viii, 37, Moroka (1300 metres), 
Papua [Loria]. Type in GenoaMuseum,a unique specimen. 
triangulifrons, p. 305, 7 ¢, pl. viii, 36, Moroka, Papua 
[Loria]. ‘Types in Genoa Museum, a unique pair. 
circumdatus, p. 3c6,-@7 9, pl. viii, 35, Moroka, Papua 
[Loria]. ‘Types in Genoa Museum. 
longirostris, p. 307, 7, pl. vili, 34, Moroka, Papua [Lora]. 
Type in Genoa Museum. 
morokaensis, p. 308, 7 @, pl. villi, 33, Moroka, Papua 
[Loria]. Types in Genoa Museum. Referred to the sub- 
genus Asarcina. 
elongatus, p. 3090, 7 @, pl. vili, 32, Moroka, Papua [Loria]. 
Types in Genoa Museum. 
Four species taken on the Abor Expedition were described 
as new by me in Rec. Ind. Mus., viii (1913). Types in Indian 
Museum. 
aeneifrons, o, p. 159, N.E. Front. India, roo ft., 17-iii-12; 
4000 ft., 18-1i1-12. 
transversus, 2, p. 160, Sadiya, 28-xi-II, a unique specimen. 
fulvifacies, 2, p. 161, Rotung (N.E. Front. Ind.), 26-ix-rr, 
a unique specimen. 
maculipleura, @ ,p. 162, Rotung, 25-xli-I1, a unique speci- 
men. 
Syrphus distinctus, mihi, sp. nov. 
(Plate xili, fig. 7). 
o Western Himalayas. Long. 14—15 mm. 
Head.—Frons, face and under side of head covered with pale 
orange yellow tomentum, being more dusky towards the frons. 
A broad median blackish stripe. rons with black hairs. Vertex 
. blackish with black hairs. Antennae and arista wholly black. 
Back of head dark grey with short yellow hairs, some black 
ones behind the vertex. 
Thorax.—Blackish on dorsum, yellowish grey at sides, mainly 
covered with brownish yellow pubescence. Scutellum orange yellow 
with black hairs in the middle and yellowish white ones on anterior 
and posterior margin and below the latter. 
A bdomen.—Blackish, Ist segment yellowish, hind margins of 
and, 3rd and 4th segments pinkish grey, with a rather narrow 
cross band of the same colour across the middle of each; that 
of the 4th segment lying just before the middle. Dorsum of 
abdomen with rather thickly placed black hairs except on the 2nd 
segment, onthe pale band on the 3rd and at the sides of the whole 
abdomen where the pubescence is whitish yellow. Belly blackish, 
yellowish at base and along the hind borders of the segments, 
