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Abdomen with thick black hair on basal half, 4th and 5th seg- 

 ments with thick orange-red hair, and with a small dark triangle in 

 the middle of the posterior border of each ; the 2nd segment has 

 traces of a lighter basal band, somewhat resembling that of Lcuco- 

 zona lucorum. Belly pubescent, basal half black, apical half red. 



Legs tawn}^, basal half of all femora blackish. 



Wings pale grey, a broad brown band in the middle, nar- 

 rowing posteriorly from foreborder up to just across the base of 

 the discal cell ; base of wing brown. 



Described from three 5 9 from Sikkim in the Indian Museum 

 collection. 



N.B. — This genus has only recently been known from the East. 

 In 1901 Herr Kertesz described a species, analis, which also came 

 from Sikkim (Termes. Fiizet., xxiv, 414). 



SYRPHUS, F. 



This genus I dare not touch upon at present in \'iew of the 

 large number of supposed species described from Oriental regions, 

 and their close affinities. 



I have seen several species from the hills that are common 

 in Europe, the specimens showing generally little or no difference ; 

 amongst them are halteatiis, DeGeer ; torvus, Os. Sac. ; pyrastri, L.; 

 lunigcr, Mg. ; and umbellatariim, F. ; all taken by Dr. Annandale 

 in the Simla district, and all^ except balteatus, are new to the 

 Oriental fauna. 



RHINGIA, Scop. 



Until quite recently (1904) this genus appears to have been 

 unrecorded from the East, but in that year Meijere described a new 

 species, cincta, from Java, whilst I have taken a new species occur- 

 ring in Mussoorie and Darjiling, and also a second one, represented 

 by a single cf from Darjiling ; moreover the Indian ]\Iuseum collec- 

 tion supplies a third undescribed species from Darjiling and Simla. 

 Meijere's species, therefore, is still the only one from a tropical loca- 

 lity. The two common European species, rostrata , E., and campes- 

 tris, Mg., are both likely to occur in the north of India. The former 

 would be easily recognised from all the other species by its ash-blue- 

 grey thorax (the others being cinereous grey or aenous) ; and the 

 latter can l)e distinguished from ciiida and binotata bv its tawny 

 instead of mainly blackish abdomen. 



Table of Oriental species of Rhingia. 



Scutellum distinctly bright ferruginous tawny. 



Abdomen with three or four pale bands. ■ _ 



Long. 9 mm. cincta, Meij. 

 Abdomen black, 2nd segment with two 



lateral spots . . Long. 9 mm. binotata, mihi, sp. nov. 



Scutellum cinereous grey. 



