624 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



short tawny hairs : mouth pitchy : feelers tawny : eyes bronzed ; 

 facets on the fore part of the crown much larger than elsewhere : 

 chest clothed with short tawny hairs ; a broad brown band across 

 the middle ; scutcheon brown : abdomen obconical, tawny, clothed 

 with short tawny hairs, a little broader but hardly longer than 

 the chest, brassy towards the tip, which is black, adorned with three 

 triangular brown spots, successively decreasing in size from the 

 base, and each having a shining triangular tawny spot on its disk ; 

 underside tawny : legs black, clothed with short black hairs ; thighs 

 and shanks tawny towards the base, and clothed there with tawny 

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

 colourless, with a tawny tinge along the borders of the veins, except- 

 ing the tips and the hind borders of the wings ; wing-ribs and veins 

 pitchy ; poisers tawny. Fem. — Front of the head white : bands of 

 the chest paler and more distinct than those of the male : abdomen 

 with brown bands on the hind borders of the segments : hind thighs 

 pitchy. Length of the body 5 — 5J lines; of the wings 10 — 11 

 lines. 



a^ North Bengal. From Miss Campbell's collection. 



b. Java. From Mr. Melly's collection. 



c. East Indies. From Archdeacon Clerk's collection. 



d. China. Presented by G. T. Lay, Esq. 



Eristalis nigricans, Wied. Auss. Zweif ii. 89, 52. 

 a. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



Eristalis tseniops, Wied. Auss. Zweif. ii. 182, 43. 

 a. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



Eristalis arvorum, Fabr. Syst. Antl. 235, 14. Wied. Auss. Zweif. 



ii. 184, 46. Macq. Dipt. Exot. ii. 47, 26. Syrphus arvorum, 



Fair. Ent. Syst. iv. 286, 28. 

 a. - ? 



Eristalis Anicetus, n. s., mas. et fem. Fulvus, thorace vittis qua- 

 tuor piceis, scutello ferragineo, abdominis vitta dorsali et segmen- 

 torum marginibus posticis ferrugineis, antennis pedibusquefulvis, 

 alis limpidis. 



Body tawny : head clothed in front with short tawny hairs : 

 feelers tawny : eyes bronzed; facets on the fore part of the crown 

 much larger than elsewhere : chest covered with tawny down, 

 adorned with four pitchy stripes ; scutcheon pale ferruginous ; 

 breast paler tawny : abdomen short-obconical, a little broader but 

 not longer than the chest ; a ferruginous stripe along the back ; 

 hind borders of the segments ferruginous : legs tawny, partly ferru- 



