272 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



white. Length of the body 5 hnes. Cairo. Var. /3. Scutelhim 

 red, black at the base. Abdomen red, black at the base 

 above and with a short stripe of three transverse black spots, 

 which successively decrease in size. Dahleck. 



4.0.B.exiguus. Female. — Black, thickly clothed with shining 

 whitish hairs. Head with a few black hairs on the vertex. 

 Proboscis much longer than the thorax. Legs pale testa- 

 ceous. Wings pellucid; veins black, testaceous towards the 

 base. Halteres whitish. Length of the body 2j hnes. Hor 

 Tarn an ib. 



Gen. Phthtria, Meig. 



4L P. miniita. Volucella minuta, Fahr. Syst. Antl. 115. 

 Cairo. Tajura. Inhabits Europe. 



Gen. DiMORPHOPHORA. 



Male. — Body slender. Head broader than the thorax ; 

 epistoma vaulted, very prominent. Eyes large, nearly con- 

 tiguous on the vertex ; facets very small. Proboscis rather 

 shorter than the thorax ; its sheaths hooked at the tips. 

 Antennae very short; third joint short, conical; arista more 

 than twice the length of .the third joint. Thorax broader 

 than the abdomen ; scutellum semicircular. Abdomen taper- 

 ing from the base to the tip, about twice the length of the 

 thorax ; apical tuft very small, compressed. Legs rather 

 stout, moderately long. Wings narrow; two submarginal 

 areolets. 



42. D.syrphoides. Af«/^.- -Black. Head pale yellow, black 

 behind. Eyes iridescent. Proboscis pale yellow, black at 

 the tip. Antenna3 pale yellow ; third joint and arista black. 

 Thorax with yellowish white hairs in front and on each side ; 

 a callus along each side and scutellum yellow. Pectus pale 

 yellow; disk mostly black. Abdomen orange; first and 

 second segments black; second with a transverse yellow spot 

 on each side ; each of the following six segments with a 

 black spot on the fore border, and with a transverse black 

 spot on each side; hind borders of the segments white; tip 

 and under side and legs yellow. Hind femora with black 

 tips. Wings ])cllucid ; veins black. Halteres yellow. Length 

 of thfe body 6 lines. Wady Genneh. 



Fam. MiDASiD^, — Gen. Midas, IVied. 



43. M. maculaius. Male, — Black. Head with short hoary 



