IgI5.] E. BRUNETTI: Notes on Oriental Syrphidae. 243 
in complete contrast to the whitish face; the hind metatarsus 
is not greatly thicker than the rest of the hind tarsus and is 
longer proportionately than in halictiformis, in which the hind 
metatarsus is twice as broad as the other joints, and apparently 
flatter; lastly the tibiae and tarsi are nearly wholly black except 
the reddish brown underside of the hind tarsi. 
The species is also slightly larger and more robust. 
Described from a type @ from Darjiling, 2-x-08 [Brunetti], 
and a type ¢ from Simla, 9-v-o9 [Annandale]; both in the Indian 
Museum, 
Eumerus pulcherrima, mihi, sp. nov. 
2 Darjiling. Long. 7 mm. 
Head.—Frons one-sixth the width of the head, aeneous, 
darker on vertex, a slightly greenish tinge in front, minutely 
punctured. Ocelli small, red, well separated from one another 
and from the eye margins. At each side of the frons, along the 
eye margins, from the lowest ocellus to just above the antennae, 
a little yellowish pollinose dusting, which becomes white at the 
level of the antennae, where it merges in the white-dusted face 
covered with yellowish white hair. 
The frons is covered with a moderate amount of light 
yellowish hair, which on the vertex is replaced by dark brown 
hair. Posterior orbits of eyes rather narrow, yellow-dusted, with 
bright yellow hair behind the vertex. Eyes with dense short 
brownish grey hairs. Antennae black, with a little hoary bloom, 
if viewed from in front; the dorsal arista black, curved upwards, 
a little pale at the base. Proboscis dark brown. 
Thorax.—Aeneous, with brilliant cupreous and violet reflec- 
tions; a little but conspicuously hoary below the anterior margin 
in front. Three very narrow whitish dorsal lines from the ante- 
rior margin, but not reaching the posterior margin; a transverse 
narrow whitish line follows the transverse suture. Sides below 
shoulders yellowish white with rather shaggy yellowish white hair. 
Humeral calli small, aeneous; remainder of thorax below dorsum, 
grey. Scutellum very conspicuous, bright shining cupreous with 
dense long reddish orange hair. 
A bdomen.—Aeneous violet; a large triangular cupreous spot 
with yellow hairs in front and with whitish hairs behind, on each 
side of the 2nd segment. In certain lights the sides of the abdo- 
men towards the tip, and the whole of the last (4th) segment 
appear more or less cupreous or aeneous. On the middle of each 
of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments are two greyish white, narrow 
stripes, beginning in the centre of each segment, almost conti- 
guous, and extending diagonally to the posterior corners. The 
whole surface of the abdomen is uniformly punctured, and is 
covered with short light yellow hairs, which are depressed, and 
which are much thicker on the last segment. Belly dull liver 
brown. 
