606 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



derside mostly yellow : legs tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs ; 

 hips and thighs from the base to the middle and hind thighs, 

 except their tips, black ; hind thighs rather thick ; hind shanks fer- 

 ruginous, slightly curved, yellow at the base ; fore feet and tips of 

 fore shanks pitchy; second, third, and fourth joints of middle feet 

 pitchy : feet ferruginous beneath ; claws and foot-cushions tawny ; 

 tips of claws black : wings slightly gray ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins 

 black, ferruginous towards the base ; poisers pale yellow. Length 

 of the body 5i — 6 lines ; of the wings 10 — 11 lines. 



Var. /3. A black stripe between the crown of the head and the 

 feelers : all the bands of the abdomen interrupted ; hind borders of 

 the segments grayish black : thighs, except their tips, black ; fore 

 shanks pitchy from the middle to the tips ; middle shanks darker 

 at the tips; hind shanks tawny, with a pitchy band near the base, 

 black from the middle to the tips ; feet pitchy. 



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

 G. Barnston, Esq. 



Helophilus Chilensis, Walker, Linn. Trans, xvii. 344, 35. Doli- 



chogyna fasciata, Macq. Dipt. Exot. ii. 66, 1, pi. 12, /. 1. 

 a. Chili. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Helophilus pendulus, Meig. Dipt. iii. 373, 6. Macq. Hist. Nat. 

 Dipt. i. 509, 1. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 595, 1. Dipt. Scand. ii. 

 676, 1. Loew, Ent. Zeit. Stett. vi. 125. Curt. Brit. Ent. 429, 

 5. Musca pendula, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 984. Faun. Suec. 

 Ed. ii. 1795. Syst. Nat. Ed. xii. 984, 28. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 

 v. 2868, 28. Deg. Ins. vi. 46, 3. Schrank, Faun. Boic. iii. 

 2425. Ins. Austr. 901. Don. Brit. Ins. i. 69, pi. 31, /. 2. 

 Stew, EL ii. 264. Turt. iii. 638. Shaw, Gen. Zool. vi. 382, 

 pi. 105,/. inf. M. trilineata, Harr. Ex. 58, pi. 15, /. 9. 

 Musca, &c, Geoff. Ins. ii. 513, 39. Schell. Gen. Mouch. pi. 9, 

 /. 2. Reaum. Ins. vi. pi. 31, /. 9 — 11. Schceff. Icon. pi. 129, 

 /. 3, 4, pi. 130, /. 2. Syrphus pendulus, Fabr. Sp. Lis. ii. 

 423, 10. Ent. Syst. iv. 282, 17. Rossi, Faun. Etrusc. ii. 

 438, 1450. Panz. Faun. Germ. xx. 21. Fall. Syrph. 30, 26. 

 Elophilus pendulus, Latr. Gen. Crust, iv. 324. 



a. England. 



b. France. 



c. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



