1915. ] E. Brunetti: Notes on Oriental Syrphidac. 20g 
orange yellow, the posterior border with a moderately broad black 
band, the anterior border generally black also. Wangs and abdo- 
men subequal. Legs all yellow, but hind tarsi rather darker orange. 
Long. 6-7 mm. Simla, 16-v-09, Theog, 2-v-07 [Annandale] ; 
Kurseong. 
@ A single specimen from Kurseong, 4-ix-og [Annandale | 
agrees absolutely with the ~o. The vertex is broadly shining 
dark aeneous green with a broad stripe similarly coloured reaching 
the antennae. 
I feel convinced this is a good species on the strength of the 
unstriped greenish aeneous thorax and very distinct black facial 
stripe, yet it seems preferable to rank it for the present as a 
orm; only, 
Sphaerophoria scuttellaris, F. 
In the Indian Museum from Maho, base of Nepalese Hima- 
layas, 17-iii-09; Ferozepore, 28-iv-05 ; Agra, 3-iv-05 [both Brunettz] ; 
Paresnath, W. Bengal, 4300 ft., 15-iv-o9 [Annandale]; Bhanwar, 
26-ii-07 ; Bettiah, Champaran, 8-iii-o8; Dhampur, 24-11-07; Raj- 
mahal, 6-vii-og; Kulti. Sitarampore, 10-viii-og [Lord]; on launch 
off Coconada, Madras coast, 15-iv-08 [Paiva]; Calcutta, iii, x, Xi, 
common. All the above localities in India. Base of Dawna Hills, 
Tennasserim, 4-iii-o8 [Annandale]. I also took it myself at many 
places in India and the East but exact data are not available. 
Sphaerophoria javana, W. 
In the Indian Museum from Ukhrul, Manipur, 6400 ft. [Pett- 
gvew]; Dawna Hills, 2000-3000 ft., 2 —3-1ii-08 [Annandale]; base 
of Dawna Hills, 1-iti-o8 [Annandale]; Sukli, 2100 ft., 22—29-xi-11 
[Gravely]; Sukna, 500 ft., I-vii-o8 [Annandale]; Burma-Siam 
Frontier, 900 ft., 24—26-xi-11 [Gravely}. 
This species was, by a clerical error of my own, recorded in 
my paper on the Diptera of the Abor Expedition (Rec. Ind. Mus., 
viii, 164), as S. scutellaris, F. Specimens were taken at Sadiya, 
Assam, 23—28-xi-II; Rotung, 1400 ft., 29-xli-11, and Kobo, 400 
ft., 30-xi-II, the last two places being on the north-eastern Fron- 
tier of India. 
Eriozona himalayensis, mihi, sp. nov. 
¢” Western Himalayas. Long. 13—1I4 mm. 
Head wholly moderately shining black. Frons with a pale 
yellowish grey tomentum when viewed in certain lights. Face 
with more obvious similarly coloured tomentum or minute pubes- 
cence; a median rather broad space being bare; some longer black 
hairs on the cheeks. Proboscis black. Eyes with thick dark brown 
pubescence. Antennae black, 3rd joint dull, arista black. Occi- 
put blackish grey with yellow hairs around the margins, with which 
are intermixed some black hairs behind the vertex. 
