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white. Length of the body 5 lines. Cairo. Var. 6. Scutellum 
red, black at the base. Abdomen red, black at the base 
above and with a short stripe of three transverse black spots, 
which successively decrease in size. Dahleck. 
40. B.exiguus. Female —Black, thickly clothed with shining 
whitish hairs. Head with a few black hairs on the vertex. 
Proboscis much longer than the thorax. Legs pale testa- 
ceous. Wings pellucid; veins black, testaceous towards the 
base. Halteres whitish. Length of the body 23 lines. Hor 
Tamanib. 
Gen. Patuiria, Meig. 
41. P. minuta. Volucella minuta, Fabs. Syst. Anti. 115. 
Cairo. Tajura. Inhabits Europe. 
Gen. DIMoRPHOPHORA. 
Male—Body slender. Head broader than the thorax; 
epistoma vaulted, very prominent. Eyes large, nearly con- — 
tiguous on the vertex; facets very small. Proboscis rather 
shorter than the thorax; its sheaths hooked at the tips. 
Antenne very short; third joint short, conical; arista more 
than twice the length of the third joint. Thorax broader 
than the abdomen ; scutellum semicircular. Abdomen taper- 
ing from the base to the tip, about twice the length of the 
thorax; apical tuft very small, compressed. Legs rather 
stout, moderately long. Wings narrow; two submarginal 
areolets. 
42, D.syrphoides. Male.---Black. Head pale yellow, black 
behind. Eyes iridescent. Proboscis pale yellow, black at 
the tip. Antenne pale yellow; third joint and arista black. 
Thorax with yellowish white hairs in front and on each side ; 
a callus along each side and scutellum yellow. Pectus pale 
yellow; disk mostly black. Abdomen orange; first and 
second segments black ; second with a transverse yellow spot 
on each side; each of the following six segments with a 
black spot on the fore border, and with a transverse black 
spot on each side; hind borders of the segments white; tip 
and under side and legs yellow. Hind femora with black 
tips. Wings pellucid; veins black. Halteres yellow. Length 
of the body 6 lines. Wady Gennéh, 
Fam. Mipastp&.—Gen. Mipas, Wied. 
43, M. maculatus. Male.—Black. Head with short hoary 
