86 E. Brunetti : Notes on Oriental Syrphidse. [Voi.. II, 



longest in the centre ; anterior tibiae bare, middle pair with fringe 

 of long yellow hair, posterior ]Dair with yellow hair behind on apical 

 half. 



Wings grey, ^^ellowish at base, slightly suffused at base of 2nd 

 and 3rd longitudinal veins ; over the discal cross- vein, and at wing- 

 tip ; discal cross-vein is placed nearly at the tip of the discal cell, 

 and is very oblique ; and the spurious vein is very distinct and com- 

 plete; a few veinlets between the subcostal vein and the costa (this 

 latter peculiarity being also the case in L. albipes). Halteres very 

 small, knob brown , tegulee pale grey, edge yellow, with short yellow 

 hair. 



Described from one cf in my collection taken by me at Darji- 

 ling, io-i5-ix-o5 (type), and a & in the Indian Museum collection 

 also from Darjiling, taken 25-ix-o6. 



BRACHYPALPUS, Macq. 



(?) B. dives, mihi, sp. nov. 



cf . Assam (Kohima). Long. 17 mm. 



Whole face yellow with silvery yellow tomentum ; antennae 

 yellow, 3rd joint darker, eyes contiguous for half the distance to 

 the vertex ; proboscis brown, posterior orbit of head entirely en- 

 circled by a fringe of bright 5'-ellow hair. 



Thorax ground colour aenous with a slight violet tinge on the 

 dorsum, covered with rather thick short yellow hair. No signs 

 of stripes or bands. Sides of thorax cinereous, with a thick elon- 

 gated bunch of yellow hair just in front of and below the insertion 

 of the wings, scutellum aenous, thickly covered with 3^ellow hair ; 

 the extreme edge is narrowly ridged all round and is yellow. 



Abdomen elongated, much narrower than thorax and only 

 slightly narrowing toward apex, brilliantly shining golden yellow, 

 1st joint dull aenous green, the whole abdomen thickly covered with 

 golden yellow hair which is longest at the sides and tip. Belly 

 yellow, nearly bare. 



Legs bright yellow, fore pair normal, the femora rather thickly 

 yellow haired ; the middle femora are distinctly, though not greatly 

 enlarged towards the tip, with a fringe of long golden yellow hair 

 in front and behind and a shorter fringe above ; the middle tibiae 

 have, above and below, excessively long and thick golden yellow 

 hair ; the hind femora are slightly and uniformly thicker, very 

 slightly pale brownish with a blackish streak on upper side, and are 

 covered with moderately long golden yellow hair — the tooth on the 

 under side is near the tip and is followed by a semicircular protu- 

 berance marked with black ; the hind tibiae are well curved, yel- 

 lowish brown, darker on inner side, slightly narrow at the base, 

 near which is a distinct tooth ; black hairs on the inner side and a 

 narrow row of pale yellow hair on the outside. The four anterior 

 tarsi yellow, with some small black spines at the tip of each joint, 

 hind tarsi similar, but brownish, with golden brown thick short 



