228 Records of the Indtan Museum. [Vor.- ie 
Subfamily ERISTALINAE. 
ERISTALIS, Latr. 
This genus was not dealt with in my first paper owing to 
reluctance to identify closely allied species from descriptions alone. 
A certain number of interesting notes on some of the species are 
now added. 
Eristalis tenax, L,. 
This very cosmopolitan species occurs freely in the Himalayas 
during the summer, the specimens in no way differing from Euro- 
pean and North American ones. 
The var. campestris, Mg.,isalsocommon, 9? 2 only. E. tenax 
occurs sparingly in the plains (Meerut, 8—14-ili-o7; Bareilly, 
15—22-iii-o7 ); and it is in the Indian Museum, from Yunnan, 
China. I have taken it freely at Mussoorie and Darjiling. 
Eristalis sepulchralis, F. 
This common European species was taken by me at Shanghai, 
i-v-06 and at Hankow, 22—26-iv-06, at both places being common, 
The dark spot on the 2nd abdominal segment in the o~ instead of 
being of the usual shape takes the form of a broad stripe with a 
transverse line at base and apex, whilst in the 2 the spot on 
the rst segment is almost reduced to a broad stripe, and that on 
the 2nd segment to a narrow streak. The antennae in the ? are 
apparently a little darker. 
Ona @ specimen in the Indian Museum from Yange-Hissar 
taken on the Yarkand Expedition, the abdominal spots are quite 
normal. 
Eristalis arvorum, F. 
Meijere makes E. quadrilineatus, F., a synonym. 
The species is the commonest of the Indian ones and occurs 
apparently all over the country from the Himalayas to the south ; 
extending also to the East Indian Isiands and China. It has been 
found by Dr. Annandale breeding in rotting seaweed in brackish 
water at Lake Chilka, Orissa, in February and November. 
Eristalis quinquestriatus, F. 
Meijere records it from various localities in Java and re- 
describes both sexes. 
Eristalis obliquus, Wied. 
Meijere records, figures (pl. vii, 17-18), and notes both sexes, 
the @ from Papua, the ¢ (hitherto unknown) from Batavia. It is 
closely allied to arvorum, F. 
