LIST OF DIPTERA. 565 



Var. ? Mas. Nigra, pilisfulvis vestita, antennis pedibusque 



fulvis, tibiis tarsisque anticis nigris, alls limpidis ad costam 

 fulvis. 



Head black, covered with tawny down, clothed with black hairs 

 on the crown and behind the eyes : mouth black : feelers bright 

 tawny ; bristle pitchy at the tip, about thrice the length of the third 

 joint, which is nearly round : eyes pitchy ; facets small ; those on 

 the fore part of the crown larger : chest and breast black ; the for- 

 mer thinly clothed with tawny hairs: abdomen nearly obconical, 

 black, covered with tawny down, a little broader and much longer 

 than the chest : legs tawny ; fore shanks and fore feet black ; claws 

 black towards the tips : wings colourless, tawny along the fore bor- 

 ders for half the breadth : wing-ribs pitchy ; veins and poisers 

 tawny. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Marseilles. 



Milesia diopthalma, Fabr: Syst. Antl. 187, 2. Latr. Gen. Crust. 



iv. 332. Cons. Gen. 443. Fall. Syrph. 8, 2. Meig. Dipt. iii. 



229, 3. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. 532, 2. Musca diopthalma, 



Linn. Faun. Suec. 1810. Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. v. 2873, 43. 



Syrphus diopthalmus, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 430, 45. Ent. Syst. iv. 



300, 79. Panz. Faun. Germ, lxxii. 23. 

 a. Ukraine. Presented by Dr. Dowler. 



Milesia saltuum, Fabr. Syst. Antl. 189,9. Meig. Dipt. iii. 230, 4. 

 Syrphus saltuum, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. 287, 32. 



a. South of France. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



b. France. 



Milesia Daochus, n. s., fern. Flava nigro varia, abdominis fasciis 

 octo nigris, antennis pedibusque fulvis, femoribus basiflavis, ti- 

 biis tarsisque anticis nigris, alis limpidis ad costam fuscis. 



Head yellow, with a black band across the crown embracing 

 the eyelets, whence a black stripe extends to the base of the feelers, 

 and thence to the clypeus ; a black stripe on each side between the 

 clypeus and the corners of the eyes : mouth dark ferruginous : feel- 

 ers bright tawuy ; bristle more than twice the. length of the third 

 joint, which is nearly round : eyes dark red ; facets small, those on 

 the fore part of the crown rather larger : chest black, adorned with 

 yellow, which is disposed in two short stripes on the fore part of the 

 back, these stripes are united in front ; on each shoulder there is a 

 yellow spot, behind which there is a short yellow band, and the lat- 

 ter is succeeded by a short yellow stripe ; there are also two yellow 

 spots in front of the scutcheon, which is yellow with a black hind 



