90 E. Brunetti : Notes on Oriental Syrpliidas. [Voi,. II, 



Abdomen tawny yellow ; ist segment very short, posterior 

 border narrowly black ; 2nd, 3rd and 4tli segments more yellow 

 on basal half and tawny on apical half, with two black oblique 

 elongated oval streaks in the disc, pointing to posterior corners, 

 those on the 2nd segment meeting towards the base of the segment 

 in the centre. The base of 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments towards 

 the sides and widening at the edge, black ; 5th segment tawny brown 

 with two oblique oval semi-lunate lemon-yellow fascia. 



Legs yellow, coxae brown. 



Wings nearly clear, slightly yellow below the pale brown stigma. 

 Halteres pale yellow. 



r)escril:)ed from the above type in the Indian Museum collec- 

 tion taken 23-3i-xi-07, at Rampore Chaka, Bijnor district, United 

 Provinces. 



C, citronellum, mihi, sj). nov. 



cr' . Ceylon. Long. 12 mm. 



Head : vertex very small, black with a few black hairs ; ocelli 

 distinct, red, well separated. Eyes touching for half the distance 

 from vertex to frontal triangle, facets very small, uniform. Frontal 

 triangle small, black, with blackish brown hairs, lower part shin- 

 ing. Antennae, base black (rest missing). Face bright greenish 

 yellow, bare, with a black stripe from the antennae, continued 

 distinctly into the mouth cavity for some distance, each side of 

 this stripe being narrowly tawny. Proboscis short, black. Under 

 side of head pale livid orange. Back of head black ; posterior 

 orbit of eyes whitish, with a fringe of short white hairs, replaced 

 behind the vertex bv vellowish hairs. 



Chrv^oioxuin citro)ieUum, uiihi, sp. nov., f. 



Thorax : sides of dorsum occupied by a thick, wide greenish 

 yellow stripe. Rest of dorsum shining greenish black, with two 

 central, longitudinal, moderately wide ochreous yellow stripes, 

 separated from each other by about the width of one of them. Sides 

 of thorax shining black, with some yellow hairs. ^^lesopleurae 

 and an oval s])ot on upper part of sternopleura?, greenish yellow; 

 metapleurte pale yellowish grey. vScutellum, disc, brownish, shin- 

 ing with brownish hairs, posterior edge, greenish yellow. • ■■ 



