94 E. Brunktti : Notes on Oriental Syrpliidae. [Voi.. II, 



Fore coxae tawiw, posterior coxae blackish, all coxae with bright 

 short golden yellow hair. Remainder of legs wholly bright tawn}^ 

 red, unmarked. 



Wings dark gre}', distinctly blackish at tip and bright yellowish 

 tawny from the anterior border down to the vena spuria^ this colour 

 extending distally to a little beyond the end of the upper basal cell. 



Described from a perfect unique example sent me by Mr. E. 

 Green, taken at Kand}^ in October 1907. In my collection. 



The full list of Oriental species will now stand thus — 



1. stilboides, Wlk., 1849, List Dip. Br. Mus., ii, 538; East 



India. 



2. indicus, Dol., 1857, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. , xiv, 404 {Cerato- 



phyia) ; Amboina. 



3. fulvicornis, Wlk., 1859, Pr. Linn. Soc. Lond, iii, 94; Aru 



Islands. 



4. apicalis, Wlk., 1859, Pr. Linn. Soc. Lond, iii, 94; Aru Islands. 



5. sumatranus, Wulp, 1892, Dipt. vSum. Exp., 29; Sumatra. 



6. wulpii, Wulp, 1892 (change of name from apicalis, V. d. 



Wulp), Dipt. Sum. Exp., 29 ; Sumatra. 



7. obscurus, Wulp, 1898, Termes. Fiizet., xxi, 421; Papua. 



8. metallicus, Meijere, 1904, Bijd. Dierk., xviii, 98 ; Darjiling. 



9. annandalei, mihi, sp. nov., cf ; Nepal. 

 10. Cceruleus, mihi, sp. nov., 9 ; Assam. 

 IT. flavipes, mihi, sp. nov., ? ; Assam. 



12. ruficaudus, mihi, sp. nov., 9; Calcutta. 



13. auricinctus, mihi, sp. nov., ? ; Ceylon. 



CERIA, F. 



To the six species of this genus given in V. d. Wulp's catalogue, 

 are to be added five others, two being described recently, and three 

 of mine described below. 



C. metallina, V. d. Wulp, 1898, Termes. Fiizet., xxi, 420 ; 



Papua. 

 C. trinotata, Meijere, 1904, Bijd. Dierk., xviii, 97 ; Darjiling. 



C. obscura, mihi, sp. nov. (PI. xiii, lig. 12.) 

 9 . vSikkim. Long. I2|^ mm. 



Frons and vertex all black ; a yellow thin V-mark below 

 antennae, which are all black, the three joints being about equal 

 in length, and the antennal stem a little longer than the ist joint. 



Thorax dull black, humeral calli tawny ; scutellum l)lack, the 

 posterior edge narrowly yellow. 



Abdomen black; basal three-fourths of the contracted 2nd 

 segment brown ; posterior borders of 2nd and 3rd segments nar- 

 rowly yellow ; 4tli with a distinctly wider black border ; 5th l)lack, 

 small. • 



