LAS1OPA. OXTCERA. ">3 



or practically contiguous in tf , broadly separated in $ . Proboscis 

 short or lengthened, porrect, with moderately large labella; palpi 

 with three distinct joints. Thorax elliptical ; scutellum unarmed. 

 Abdomen broader than thorax, elliptical, arched, five- segmented. 

 Leys moderately long and stout. Wings with 3rd vein distinctly 

 forked ; 4th longitudinal vein with four faint veinlets, of which 

 the 4th originates near or directly from the 2nd basal cell. 



Range. Europe, West Asia, North Africa, South Africa, Orient, 

 New Zealand, South America. 



Life-history unknown. The perfect insects occur 011 umbelli- 

 ferous and other flowers, and often become rather sluggish in their 

 habits. 



26. Lasiopa villosa, /"., var. himalayensis, Brun. 



Xe.motelus villosa, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iv, p. 270 (1794). 

 Lasiopa villosa, var. himalayensis, Brunetti, Ilec. Ind. Mus. i, p. 117 

 (1907). 



J 5 . Head black, with rather long, shaggy, yellowish-grey 

 hair ; eyes in J not quite contiguous ; frons in $ one-third width 

 of head, sides parallel, with rather Jong golden-yellow pubescence ; 

 face similar, with a rather small elongate spot on each side in $ 

 at level of antennae, contiguous to inner margin of eye ; proboscis 

 dark brown, not prominent ; underside of head with greyish 

 pubescence ; antennae blackish brown. Thorax black, with yel- 

 lowish-grey pubescence, which is shorter in the $ . Abdomen 

 black: an elongate yellowish spot towards each side* on hind 

 border of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th segments, all the spots subequal ; 5th 

 segment with distinct yellow hind margin. Legs blackish brown. 

 Wings brownish grey ; halteres whitish yellow. 



Length, 9-10 mm." 



Described from three specimens in my own collection from 

 Mussoorie, v. 1905 (Brunetti), and others from Kumaon, W. 

 Himalayas, 6300 ft., ll.v. 1911 (Kemp}-, Nairn Tal, vi. 1893 

 [Lucknow Museum]; Dungagali, Hazara Dist., 8000 ft,, 21-24. 

 v. }Q15 (FletcJter). 



The only difference from typical European specimens is that 

 the abdominal yellow spots are not turned up and widened at 

 their inner ends. 



Genus OXYCERA, %. 



Oxycera, Meigen, Illig. Mag. ii, p. 265 (1803). 



Hypoleon, Dumeril, Expos. Meth. Natur. (1801). 



lletcroxycera, -Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (3) iv, pp. 6-'> & 85 



(1850). 



GKKOTYPE, Jfusca hypoleon, L. (Europe) ; by designation of 

 Curtis, 1833 (as trilineata, F.). 



Head with epistoma smooth, a little arched ; eyes from bare in 

 both sexes to densely pubescent in $ (in which case $ has some 

 pubescence too), contiguous in J for a considerable distance, the 



