I X .~N OTKS ON ORIENTAL SYRPHID^ 



WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF 



N E W SPECIES. 



PART I. . ' 



By E. Brunetti. 



(N.B. — The plates herein referred to, are to be jouiid in vol. i of the 

 Rec. Ind. Mus.,' following p. j8o.) 



Since Van der Wulp's Catalogue of 1896, little work has been 

 done on Oriental Syrphidce. So far as I am aware, less than twenty 

 new species have been described and no paper of importance pub- 

 lished. The following notes, collected during a revision of the 

 Indian Museum collection of Syrphidce, maj' prove of interest. 

 The recently recorded species are referred to and descriptions of 

 thirty-nine new species added, the types of which exist either in 

 the Museum collection or my own. 



A number of species named by Bigot, but api)arently not 

 described, aie in the Museum collection, and these I have des- 

 cribed herein. 



The tables of species are drawn ui) partially from descri^ptions, 

 to serve as aids to their identiJication pro tern., pending a more 

 thorough revision of this faniih', and are therefore not intended 

 to represent an ultimate y'lew of their characters and afifinities. 

 Mr. Verrall's sequence of sub- families has been followed, but the 

 genera are not arranged in any special order. Circumstances 

 permitting, I hope to deal later on with some of the genera not 

 touched upon in this paper. In the explanation of the plates 

 (given in previous volume) belonging to this paper, the terms " an- 

 terior " and " posterior " leg, would be more correctly replaced 

 by " fore " and " hind " leg respectively ; throughout the text the 

 terms " anterior legs " and " posterior legs" are used in their 

 correct sense, to designate the two front pairs or two hind Dairs 

 respectively. 



1 111 the explanation of pi. xi on p. 379, opposite •' fig. 9," Macquart is 

 given as the author of the species Volucellci nuheculosa. This is an error ; it should 

 be Bigot. 



