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Indian Museum collection, and a good series of bengalensis taken 

 in Calcutta. 



In pi. xii is a figure (fig. lo) of what I at first thought might 

 be a different species, but now consider only a variety of bengalensis. 

 Several specimens from various parts of India and Assam are present 

 in the collection. 



In addition to the described species enumerated herein, there 

 is a $ specimen (wings missing) in the Indian Museum collection 

 taken on the Second Yarkand Expedition and apparently a different 

 species to any known to me. I therefore figure it in pi. xii, figs. 13 

 and 14, showing the abdomen and the markings of the legs. The 

 black on the middle femora, however, is at the base, and not in the 

 form of a distinct band removed from the base, as it appears in the 

 figure. It may be a variety- of some Palsearctic species. The last 

 figure (pi. xii, fig. 21) is of a Calcutta specimen, which may be a 

 variety of bengalensis, or may be distinct. 



ERISTALIS, Latr. 



I do not propose to deal with this genus in the present paper 

 to any extent, its intricacies being far too extensive, considering the 

 limited amount of material at my disposal. Two species were 

 omitted by accident from Van der Wulp's Oriental Catalogue ; these 

 are — 



E. tortuosus, Wlk., 1861, Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond., v, 266 ;, 



Tond. 

 E. (Eristalomyia) sapphirina, Big., 1880, Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. Fr. (v), X, 230 ; Papua. 



One non-Oriental species crept into the catalogue by error ; 

 this is E. seiiiicirculns, Wlk., the habitat of which is Honduras. 



E. ursinus, Big. 



I propose to change this name to himalayensis, as the species 

 is found at Mussoorie, Sikkim, Darjiling, Simla, and several locali- 

 ties in Nepal. 



Bigot's species (of which the type is in the Indian Museum 

 collection) was described by him in the Ann. Soc. Ent, Fr. (1880) 

 (5), X, 215 from " Hindustan," but the name was preoccupied 

 l)y Ja^nnicke in r868 in " Neue exot. Dipt.," 93, for a ver}' different 

 species, from Java. The present is a furry species, 1:>elonging to the 

 intricarius group, and to which Wiedemann's orientalis also belongs. 

 Of the latter .species the Indian Museum possesses a short series of 

 both sexes from Sikkim. 



N.B. — Amongst some unnamed species of Eristalis in the Indian 

 Museum collection is a 2 from vSikkim closely resembling intrica- 

 rius, L., but with the face much more produced, the hair on the 

 major part (apical) of the abdomen bright red, the legs wholly 

 black, and the arista plumose nearly to the ti]). The produced 

 face makes it appear specifically distinct. 



