

616 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



gularly tawny for more than half the length from the base : legs 

 tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs ; hips black ; a broad black 

 band across each thigh and shank ; feet pitchy, tawny at the base ; 

 foot-cushions and claws tawny ; tips of the claws black : wings 

 slightly tawny ; wing-ribs and veins tawny, the latter black towards 

 the tips ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4£ — 5 lines ; of the 

 wings 9 — 10 lines. 



a. New York. 



5. Trenton Falls. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Eristalis anthophorinus, Meig. Dipt. iii. 90, 11. Syrphus antho- 



phorinus, Fall. Syrph. 23, 21. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 594, 9. 

 a. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Eristalis nebulosus, Barnstons MSS., mas. et fem. Niger, scu 

 tello fulvo, abdominis lateribus fulvo unimaculatis, antennis 

 piceis, pedibus nigris, tibiis ferrugineis, alis limpidis basi disco- 

 que fuscis. 



Body black : head shining, clothed with pale yellow hairs, co- 

 vered behind and about the base of the feelers with pale yellow 

 down : mouth pitchy : feelers pitchy ; bristle tawny, downy, darker 

 towards the tip : eyes pitchy, thinly clothed with short black hairs ; 

 facets on the fore part of the crown rather larger than those else- 

 where : chest and breast thickly clothed with pale tawny hairs ; 

 scutcheon tawny : abdomen nearly oval, rather longer and broader 

 than the chest, thickly clothed in the male with pale tawny hairs, 

 and on the disk with black hairs, in the female with black hairs, 

 adorned with a large tawny spot on each side near the base : legs 

 black, clothed with short black hairs ; shanks ferruginous, clothed 

 with tawny hairs ; claws tawny, with black tips ; foot-cushions pale 

 yellow ; feet clothed beneath with tawny down : wings colourless, 

 brownish tawny towards the base, adorned with a large brown spot 

 on the disk ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, ferruginous towards 

 the base ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 5 — 5i lines ; of the 

 wings 10 — 11 lines. 



a. New York. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



b. St. Martin's Falls, Albany Eiver, Hudson's Bay. Presented by 



G. Barnston, Esq. 



c. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Kedman's collection. 



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