57G Prof. J. O. ^^^Rwoocl's Munoi/ruph of 



Sijstropus Enmenoidcft, Westw. in Guerln-iMeneville, 

 Mag. Zool. 1842, pi. 90, textc, p. 4. 

 Antennas flavas, articuli Inii summo apice articulisque 

 2iulo ct 3tio nigris. Facics ct pars postica capitis flavas. 

 Thorax fiavus, vitta antica media, macula magna cordi- 

 formi discoidali, maculis duabus parvis versus humcros 

 alterisque duabus cuneatis ad basin alarum extensis nigris. 

 Sternum posticum fiavum, nigro-maculatimi. Abdomen 

 segmento Imo supra nigro, cpiatuor proximis flaWs, linea 

 tcnui dorsali interrupta fusca, duobus j)roximis nigris, 

 margine postico flavis. Halteres flavi. Alas flavido-hya- 

 linjB, costa parum obscuriori, venis postcostalibus fulvis; 

 aliis fuscis. Pedes quatuor antici flavi; tarsis summo 

 apice nigris. Pedes postici femoribus fusco-flavidis ; tibiis 

 flavis, vitta externa fusca annuloquc subapicali nigricautl, 

 tarsis vitta supera fusca. 



Sp. 7. Sijstropus spliegoides. 



Niger; capite albido-testaceo, an tennis apicem versus 

 lanceolatis, thorace strigis quatuor lateralibus pallide 

 flavis; abdomine lurido, basi et a]:)iccm versus nigro, 

 petiolo longissimo ; femoribus subtus tibiisque apice luridis, 

 alis nigricanti-cinereis, haltcribus albidis, nigro-fasciatis. 



Si/stropus spliegoideSf AValker in Proc. Liuu. Soc. 

 vol. iv. p. 113. 



Male. — Black, head white behind, whitish testaceous in 

 front about the eyes; proboscis longer than the breadth of 

 the head, its sheaths diverging and convoluted at the tips ; 

 antennae a little longer than the proboscis, lanceolate 

 towards the tips; thorax with two pale yellow streaks on 

 each side, one in front the other behind the Aving ; abdo- 

 men lurid black at the base above and toAvards the tip, 

 where it is fusiform, its petiole very long and slender ; 

 femora beneath and tibin3 towards the tips lurid ; wings 

 blackish-grey, veins black ; halteres whitish, with a black 

 subapical band. 



Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



Habitat in insula ]\Iakassar. Etiam (sub nomine 

 S. sphecoides) in insula Celebes; Walk., Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 ix. p. 15. 



In Mus. Britann. (olim Saunders). 



Sp. 8. Si/stroptis tipuloides. 

 Niger, opacus, facie antiee, thoracis vitta transversa 

 antica (in medio interrupta), cum pleuris, punctisque 



