THE ENTOMOLOGIST. bly «3 
hairs; epistoma tawny. Club of the antenne fusiform, a 
little shorter than the preceding part. Thorax tawny behind 
and with four tawny stripes. Abdomen tawny, with six 
longitudinally elongated black spots on each side; first 
segment not spotted; second with a transverse black spot on 
each side of the hind border. Legs tawny; hind legs with 
short bristles beneath. Wings cinereous, with brown stripes 
along the veins; veins black, tawny at the base. Length of 
the body 6 lines. Mount Sinai. 
Fam. Empip&.—Gen. PLatypatpus, Macq. 
44, P. flavipes. Kmpis flavipes, Yabr. Ent. Syst. iv. 406. 
Cairo. Inhabits Europe. 
Gen. Draretis, Meig. 
45. D. enea. Female.—Mneous, shining. Antenne, abdo- 
men and legs black. Tips of the hind femora and of the hind 
tibiz tawny. Wings pellucid; veins black, tawny at the 
base. Length of the body 1 line. Cairo. 
Fam. SyrPpHip& (SyRPHIN&/).—Gen. Syrpnus, Fabr. 
46. S. latiusculus. Female. Aneous. Head yellow; 
vertex and hind border black, the latter and the sides of the 
thorax with whitish hairs. Scutellum yellow; disk piceous. 
Abdomen black, elliptical, broad; first, second and third 
segments with a chalybeous band on the hind border, and 
with an abbreviated and interrupted yellow band on the disk 
of each; the two spots of the first yellow band distinctly 
transverse; those of the second band and of the third slightly 
oblique; hind borders of the third and fourth segments 
yellow; fourth segment chalybeous; under side yellow, 
with an abbreviated black band on each segment. Legs 
yellow; hind femora black, their tips yellow; four anterior 
femora black at the base. Wings pellucid; veins black, 
yellow at the base. MHalteres yellow. Length of the body 
5 lines. Wady Ferran. Mount Sinai. 
47. S. interrumpens. Female. Aineous. Head yellow; 
vertex and hind border eneous, the latter and the thorax 
with short yellowish hairs. Scutellum yellow. Abdomen 
black, chalybeous at the base and at the tip; first, second 
and third segments with a chalybeous band on each hind 
border; three broad yellow bands; first band narrower 
towards the middle, where it is interrupted; second and 
