566 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



border : breast black, with two yellow spots on each side : abdomen 

 yellow, nearly oval, broader and much longer than the chest, 

 adorned with eight black bands, which are alternately broad and 

 narrow : legs tawny ; thighs yellow towards the base ; hind thighs 

 unarmed ; fore shanks and fore feet black, the former tawny at the 

 base ; tips of claws black : wings colourless, brown along the fore 

 borders for more than one-third of the breadth ; wing-ribs and veins 

 tawny ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 

 11 lines. 



Milesia Canusium, n. s., fem. Nigra, tlwrace maculis duabusfla- 

 vis, pills flavis fasciato, abdomine ferrugineo, segmentorum 

 marginibus posticis fulvis, pedibus fulvis, alis limpidis ad cos- 

 tam fulvis. 



Head partly tawny : chest black, adorned in front with two yel- 

 low spots, behind which there is a band of yellow hairs just in front 

 of the wings, it is interrupted on the middle of the chest and 

 on that of the breast ; in front of the scutcheon there is another band 

 of yellow hairs which do not extend to the breast : abdomen ferru- 

 ginous, obconical, longer and a little broader than the chest ; hind 

 borders of segments tawny : legs tawny ; tips of claws black : wings 

 colourless, tawny along the fore borders for nearly half the breadth ; 

 wing-ribs black ; veins and poisers tawny. Length of the body 5 

 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 

 a. Cape of Good Hope. 



Milesia fulminans, Meig. Dipt. iii. 228, 2. pi. 29, /. 8. Macg. 



Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 532, 2. Eristalis fnlminans, Fabr. Syst. 



And. 241, 39. 

 a. South of France. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Milesia fallax, Fabr. Syst. Anil. 190, 10. Meig. Dipt. iii. 235, 9. 

 Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 534, 8. Musca fallax, Linn. Faun. 

 Suec. 1812. Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. v. 2871, 35. Syrphus fal- 

 lax, Fabr. Sp. Lis. ii. 426, 26. But. Syst. iv. 291, 47. S. se- 

 mirufus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. 301, 85. E. semirufus, Fabr. 

 Syst. Anil. 243, 51. Fall. Syrph. 51, 3. 



a. - ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Milesia bilineata, White, Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror. Fem. — 

 Nigra thoracis vittis duabus lateribus pectoreque fulvis, antennis 

 pedibusque nigris, alis cinereis. 



Body black : head as broad as the chest, covered behind and in 

 front with pale tawny down : mouth and feelers black : eyes black ; 



