620 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



pitchy ; veins tawny, black towards the tips ; poisers tawny. 

 Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 11 lines. 



a. Nepaul. From the Hardwicke bequest. 



Eristalis secretus, n. s. Nigro-ceneus, scutello fulvo, abdomine 

 nigro fasciis duabus fulvis, pedibus ferrugineis, femoribus ceneis, 

 tibiis anterioribus tarsisque fulvis, alls limpidis. 



Head wanting : chest and breast brassy black, clothed with 

 tawny hairs ; scutcheon tawny : abdomen black, obconical, a little 

 longer than the chest ; second segment adorned with an interrupted 

 tawny band ; third segment with an entire band : legs ferruginous, 

 clothed with short tawny hairs; hips and thighs brassy ; feet and 

 four front shanks tawny ; tips of feet pitchy ; claws and foot- 

 cushions tawny ; tips of claws black : wings colourless, with a very 

 small brown spot on the fore border ; wing-ribs and veins ferrugi- 

 nous, the latter pitchy towards the tips ; poisers tawny, with ferru- 

 ginous knobs. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a, ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Eristalis jucundus, n. s., fern. Niger, scutello abdomineque fulvis, 

 hoc fasciis tribus fuscis apiceque nigro, antennis ferrugineis arti- 

 culo 3° supra piceo, pedibus fulvis, tibiis posticis femoribusque 

 piceis, alis limpidis. 



Body black : head and chest clothed with short pale yellow 

 hairs: head covered with pale yellow down, adorned with three 

 black stripes between the feelers and the mouth ; crown beset with 

 a few black hairs : mouth pitchy : feelers ferruginous ; third joint 

 pitchy above; bristle tawny, with a black tip: eyes red, slightly 

 bronzed, each adorned with four black stripes : chest covered with 

 tawny down, with the exception of four black stripes, of these, the 

 middle pair are near together, and the side pair are interrupted ; 

 scutcheon tawny, slightly bronzed : abdomen obconical, pale tawny, 

 a little longer than the chest, adorned with three brown bands ; the 

 second band broader than the first, but much narrower than the 

 third, which is succeeded by a narrow tawny band, and beyond this 

 the abdomen is black : legs tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs ; 

 hips, thighs, and hind shanks pitchy, and clothed with black hairs ; 

 knees yellow ; tips of feet ferruginous ; foot-cushions pitchy ; claws 

 tawny, with black tips : wings colourless ; a very small brown spot 

 in the middle of the fore border ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins pitchy, 

 tawny towards the base ; poisers pale yellow. Length of the body 

 5 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



