294 bombylitdjE. 



major portion from the base of the 1st joint ; the two anterior 

 pairs of thoracic spots are broadly joined, the humeral pair 

 extending downwards to the front coxae ; the cuneate hinder 

 spots are isolated ; the scutellum black, but the underside of the 

 hind margin is yellow ; nearly the whole of the club of the 

 halteres is black, leaving a narrow yellow margin ; the inner side 

 of the middle tibiae is distinctly brownish, with tiny black bristles. 



23<\ Systropus edwardsi, sp. nov. 



c? . Near, but quite distinct from, ophioneus. Antenna? black, 

 except 1st joint which is brownish basally ; face with nearly 

 ■parallel sides. Dorsal spots on thorax as follows : — A humeral 

 nearly square one, with a piece cut out of the front side ; this 

 spot connected by two small ones with the yellow pi'opleura as in 

 ophioneus, also extended along dorsal margin, narrowing to a 

 point, turning upwards and nearly reaching wing-base ; all these 

 spots bright yellow ; no spot on posterior corners of dorsum, but 

 the margin in that neighbourhood showing yellowish traces ; a 

 little yellowish about wing-base and contiguous to 1st abdominal 

 segment, but the pleura practically all black. Sides of abdomen 

 orange or brownish yellow to the tip, including last segment and 

 genitalia. Anterior legs pale yellow, showing darker traces on 

 upper side of femora. 



In all ei^e as in ophioneus. 



Length, 22 mm. 



Described from a unique <$ in the British Museum from 

 Taung-ngu, Burma, xi. 1889 (Lt.-Gol. C. T. Bingham). 



231. Systropus eumenoides, Westiv. 



Systropus eumenoides, Westwood, in Guerin's Mag. Zool. p. 4, pi. 90 

 (1842) ; id., Trans. Ent. Soc, pi. x, figs. 13, 14, 15 (1876). 



"Antenna? yellow, 1st joint at tip, and 2nd and 3rd joints 

 black ; face and back of head yellow. Thorax yellow, a median 

 short stripe in front, a large heart-shaped spot in centre of disc r 

 two small spots near humeri, and two wedge-shaped others at 

 base of wing, black. 



" Yellow, black-marked. Abdomen with 1st segment black 

 above, the four next yellow, with a narrow median interrupted 

 brown stripe ; two last segments black, with yellow hind margins ; 

 halteres yellow. Wings pale yelloAV, costa hardly darkened ; 

 veins just behind the costa yellow, the others brown. Eour 

 anterior legs yellow, tarsi black above at tip ; hind femora brownish 

 yellow, hind tibia? yellow, a brown short stripe on outer side, and 

 a blackish subapical ring ; tarsi with a short brown stripe above.'"' 

 (Westwood.) 



Length, 18 mm. 



North part of India. 



Type in the British Museum. 



