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hairs; epistoraa tawny. Club of the antennae fusiform, a 

 little shorter than the preceding part. Thorax tawny behind 

 and with four tawny stripes. Abdomen tawny, with six 

 longitudinally elongated black spots on each side ; first 

 segment not spotted ; second with a transverse black spot on 

 each side of the hind border. Legs tawny ; hind legs with 

 short bristles beneath. Wings cinereous, with brown stripes 

 along the veins; veins black, tawny at the base. Length of 

 the body 6 lines. Mount Sinai. 



Fam. EMPiDiE. — Gen. Platypalpus, Macq. 



44. P.Jlampes. Empis flavipes, Fahr. Ent. Syst. iv. 406. 

 Cairo. Inhabits Europe. 



Gen. Drapetis, Meig. 



45. D. cenea. Female. — JEneous, shining. Antennae, abdo- 

 men and legs black. Tips of the hind femora and of the hind 

 tibiae tawny. Wings pellucid; veins black, tawny at the 

 base. Length of the body 1 line. Cairo. 



Fam. SYRPHID.E (Syrphin^). — Gen. Syrphus, Fahr. 



46. S. latiuscukis. Female* ^neous. Head yellow ; 

 vertex and hind border black, the latter and the sides of the 

 thorax with whitish hairs. Scutellum yellow ; disk piceous. 

 Abdomen black, elliptical, broad ; first, second and third 

 segments with a chalybeous band on the hind border, and 

 with an abbreviated and interrupted yellow band on the disk 

 of each ; the two spots of the first yellow band distinctly 

 transverse; those of the secondhand and of the third slightly 

 oblique ; hind borders of the third and fourth segments 

 yellow ; fourth segment chalybeous ; under side yellow, 

 with an abbreviated black band on each segment. Legs 

 yellow ; hind femora black, their tips yellow ; four anterior 

 femora black at the base. Wings pellucid ; veins black, 

 yellow at the base. Halteres yellow. Length of the body 

 5 lines. Wady Ferran. Mount Sinai. 



47. H. inter rumpens. Female. JEneous. Head yellow; 

 vertex and hind border aeneous, the latter and the thorax 

 with short yellowish hairs. Scutellum yellow. Abdomen 

 black, chalybeous at the base and at the tip ; first, second 

 and third segments with a chalybeous band on each hind 

 border ; three broad yellow bands ; first band narrower 

 towards the middle, where it is interrupted; second and 



