No 
IQI5.] E. BRUNETTI: Notes on Oriental Syrphidae. 2Oy 
Wines clear, except subcostal cell, from base to tip blackish 
or blackish brown, the colour carried narrowly along the front 
margin to tip of 3rd longitudinal vein. Halteres brownish yellow. 
Described trom several ~ @ in the Indian Museum from 
Sukna, 500 ft. 1 and 2-vii-o8; and from jungle at base of Dawna 
Hills, r-iii-o8 [both Annandale]; Rungpo, Sikkim, 1400 ft. , 6-ix-o09. 
In the latter specimen the face is wholly pale, but it is undoubtedly 
this species. 
This is evidently distinct from flavopunctata, though bearing 
a close resemblance, and at one time I thought it the @ of that 
species. It differs in the distinct blue tinge to the whole thorax 
instead of the almost cupreous dorsum in flavopunctata. Also 
in the metapleural stripe which is shorter and more truncate at its 
lower end, instead of longer, elongate oval and sometimes divided 
transversely. The femora are only slightly browner apically than 
basally, the tips seldom paler; instead of a deeper brown middle 
part, the base distinctly pale and the tips always more or less so. 
The whole hind metatarsus is black, instead of only at the 
base; the costal cell quite clear, not yellowish. The abdominal 
marks appear constant in elegans in the five specimens seen, except 
that the 3rd segment in one of them is all black. 
Baccha apicenotata, mihi, sp. nov. 
(Plate xiii, fig. 8). 
@ Western Himalayas. Long. Io mm, 
Head.—Frons shining aeneous black, with a dark blue tinge, 
narrowest immediately below vertex, thence gradually widening to 
double that width just above antennae. An elongate grey dust 
spot at about the middle of the frons each side, contiguous to 
eye margin. Face grey at sides, leaving a broad median blue 
black shining stripe; the central bump rather large. Antennal 
prominence rather large, antennae bright orange. Proboscis 
brownish yellow. Occiput greyish, ocular orbit with a fringe of 
whitish hairs. 
Thorax.—Dorsum shining dark blue, with sparse short brown- 
ish grey pubescence. Sides obscurely brownish, a small greyish 
shoulder spot, another similar spot half way between the latter 
and the wing root, contiguous to a perpendicular, similarly coloured 
oblong spot on the mesopleura. Scutellum shining dark blue with 
very sparse short pale hairs. 
Abdomen only very slightly widened,! dark brownish, posterior 
margins of 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments broadly black, 5th segment 
mainly so. 
Legs.—Anterior pairs wholly yellow; hind pair a little more 
obscure ; coxae darkened, a subapical light brownish ring on 
! A little may be allowed for the sides curling underneath, but the species is 
evidently nearly linear in form. 
