576 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



hairs : chest clothed with black hairs : breast slightly gray : abdo- 

 men brassy, clothed with short tawny hairs : legs black ; knees 

 ferruginous ; feet piceous : wings dark brown, especially along the 

 fore borders ; wing-ribs piceous ; veins black ; poisers tawny. 

 Female. — Shanks tawny towards the base ; feet tawny at the tips 

 and beneath : wings nearly colourless. Length of the body 3 — 3^ 

 lines ; of the wings 6 — 7 lines. 



a. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay. Presented by 

 G. Barnston, Esq. 



Group II. 



Syrphus Lucorum, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 426, 25. Ent. Syst. iv. 291, 

 46. Meig. Dipt. iii. 313, 58, pi. 30,/. 27. Macq. Hist. Nat. 

 Dipt. i. 537, 8. Musca Lucorum, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 985. 

 Faun. Suec. 1803. Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. v. 2871, 36. Turt. 

 iii. 643. M. pellucens, Harr. Ex. 82, pi. 24,/. 28. Eristalis 

 Lucorum, Fabr. Syst. Anil. 241, 37. Fall. Syrph. 50, I. 

 Zett. Ins. Lapp. 610, 1. 



a. England. 



b. ? 



Syrphus amplus, n. s., fern. Niger, pilis fulvis hirtus, abdomine 

 pilis nigris late fasciato, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, tibiis 

 posticis femoribusque piceis, alis subcinereis ad costam fusco 

 maculatis. 



Body black : head clothed with short tawny hairs, covered 

 with tawny down, beset on the crown with some brown hairs, 

 bright yellow in front : mouth pitchy : feelers black ; bristle tawny : 

 eyes pitchy ; all the facets small : chest very thickly clothed with 

 dull tawny hairs : breast less thickly clothed : abdomen nearly 

 round, longer and much broader than the chest, its length hardly 

 exceeding its breadth, clothed with pale tawny hairs for more than 

 one-third of the length, then succeeds a broad band of black hairs, 

 and the tip is clothed with longer pale tawny hairs : legs tawny, 

 clothed with short tawny hairs ; thighs and hind shanks pitchy, 

 clothed with black hairs ; shanks and feet darker towards the tips ; 

 claws and foot-cushious tawny ; tips of claws black: wings slightly 

 tinged with gray, adorned with an irregular brown spot beneath the 

 middle of the fore border ; wing-ribs and veins pitchy, the latter 

 ferruginous towards the base ; poisers tawny, with a pitchy spot on 

 the knob. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 15 lines. 

 a , ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



