LIST OF DIPTEEA. 623 



Eristalis vinetorum, Fair. Syst. Anil. 235, 13. Wied. Auss. 

 Zweif. ii. 163, 15. Macq. Dipt. Exot. ii. 41, 16. Syrphus 

 vinetorum, Fair. Ent. Syst. Suppl. 562, 27. 



a. Brazil. 



b. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Eedman's collection. 

 c ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



d. ? 



Eristalis uvarum, MSS., fem. Niger, capite antennis scutelloque 

 fulvis, thoracis fasciis duabus fuscis, abdominis basi segmen- 

 torum marginibus posticis ventregue fulvis, pedibus ferrugineis 

 nonnunquam piceo variis, tibiis basi flavis, alis subfulvis cine- 

 reo variis. 



Head tawny, clothed with white hairs and down : crown beset 

 with a few brown hairs : mouth pitchy : feelers tawny : eyes 

 red, slightly bronzed ; all the facets very small : chest and breast 

 black, clothed with yellowish hoary down ; chest adorned with two 

 brown bands, one narrow in front of the wings, the other broad 

 between the wings; scutcheon bright tawny: abdomen obconical, a 

 little longer and broader than the chest, clothed with tawny hairs, 

 adorned at the base with a very broad interrupted tawny band; 

 hind borders of the segments and underside tawny: legs ferruginous, 

 clothed with short black and tawny hairs ; shanks at the base yel- 

 low and clothed with pale yellow hairs ; feet pitchy towards the tips ; 

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

 tawny ; disks of some of the areolets gray ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins 

 pitchy, tawny towards the base ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 

 5 — 6 lines ; of the wings 9 — 11 lines. 



Var. j3. An interrupted tawny band on the third abdominal seg- 

 ment ; hind thighs pitchy towards the base. 



Var. y. Like var. 0. : thighs towards the base, hind thighs, and 

 hind shanks pitchy. 



a. Jamaica. Prom Mr. Gosse's collection. 



b. Jamaica. From Mr. Children's collection. 



c. Jamaica. 



d. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Eristalis Amphicrates, n. s., mas. et fem. Fuscus, capite fulvo, 

 thoracis fascia scutelloque fuscis, abdomine fulvo maculis tribus 

 triangulis fuscis apice nigro-ceneo, antennis fulvis, pedibus nigris, 

 femoribus tibiisque basi fulvis, alis limpidis fulvo venosis. 



Male. — Body brown : head tawny, beset with a few black hairs 

 on the crown about the eyelets, in front yellow, and clothed with 



