58 K. Brunetti : Notes on Oriental SA^rphidse. [Vol.. II, 



Posterior border of abdominal segments 



widely black . . Ivong. 7-9 mm. laticinda, milii, sp. nov. 



Posterior border of abdominal segments 



very narrowly black. lyOng. 8 mm. aiigusticincta, mihi, sp. 



nov. 



R. laticincta, milii, sp. nov. (PI. xi, fig. 7.) 



^f 2 . Mussoorie, Darjiling, 7,000 to 12,000 feet I^ong. 7 to 9 mm- 

 (without snout). 



Head : snout tawny ; lower part of head shining gre}^ ; an- 

 tennae tawny ; eyes quite contiguous as far as the vertex ; frons in 

 9 of about the usual width in the genus, cinereous grey. 



Thorax cinereous gre}^, with aenous reflections and soft black- 

 and-gre}^ hair ; four blackish longitudinal stripes, not always very 

 distinct, the two outer ones interrupted at the suture, the two 

 inner ones close together on the front, diverging wideh' posteriorly, 

 where the}' become diffused and meet the ends of the outer pair 

 just in front of the scutellum. vScutellum unicolorous, similarly 

 haired, a row of stiff black hairs on posterior edge, from which 

 a fringe of soft pale yellow hair hangs down. , 



Abdomen bright tawny, with soft yellow hair, thickest at the 

 base on the sides ; ist segment very narrowly black edged, 2nd, 

 3rd and 4th with abroad black band on posterior border, interrupted 

 in the centre in front, but continuous on the extreme edge of 

 segment ; a ^-ertical long black spot on the dorsum of each segment 

 forms a sort of longitudinal dorsal stripe. Belly tawny brown. 



Legs all pale tawny, all the femora black at the base, and an 

 indistinct blackish wide ring around the centre of the hind tibiae ; 

 feet darker. In the 2 the femora are nearly all pale and the ring 

 on the hind tibife is less distinct. 



Wings pale grey, stigma yellowish. 



Described from a ct^ (Darjiling) and 2 (Mussoorie) in the Indian 

 Museum collection (types), and a rf and 2 in my own collection. 



Var. fasciata, -y- 2 . (PI. xi, fig, 8.) 



What I take to be a \' ariety of laUcincta differs by the abdominal 

 bands being reduced to semi-circular spots placed on the posterior 

 borders of the segments and joined by a very narrow line on the 

 extreme edge. The legs in the •r' are ])aler, and show only very 

 slight traces of black at the base of the femora ; in the 2 they are 

 wholly pale, almost livid, with only the faintest indication of a dark 

 band on the hind tibiae. Another point of dift'erence is that the 

 pubescence on the thorax is much shorter, and almost absent on the 

 posterior part, and the scutellum is practically bare, except for some 

 long hairs towards the tip. 



1 have four specimens ( cr' cf 2 2 ) taken by myself at Darjiling 

 (7,000 feet), TO-15-X-05, and am not at all sure that it is not spe- 

 cifically distinct, for which reason I have given it a name. In my 

 collection. 



