LIST OF DIPTERA. 637 



Volucella purpurea, u. s., mas. Cupreo-purpurea, capite fulvo, 

 pectore abdominis basi ventreque ferrugineis, antennis fulvis, pe- 

 dibus ferrugineis, alis cinereo-fulvis disco fuscis. 



Head tawny, prominent in front : feelers tawny ; bristle deeply 

 feathered : eyes bronzed, partly pitchy ; facets on the fore part 

 of the crown larger than those elsewhere : chest coppery purple, co- 

 vered with tawny down, beset on each side and behind with a 

 few black bristles: breast ferruginous, slightly bronzed: abdomen 

 short-obconical, coppery purple, tawny at the base, a little broader 

 but not longer than the chest; underside ferruginous, slightly 

 bronzed : legs dull ferruginous, clothed with short black hairs ; foot- 

 cushions tawny ; claws black, ferruginous at the base: wings grayish 

 tawny, with a large brown spot on the fore border occupying half 

 the breadth of the wing, extending to the hind border along one of 

 the veins, and accompanying the fore border nearly to the tip ; 

 wing-ribs and veins pitchy ; veins ferruginous towards the base ; 

 poisers dull tawny, with whitish knobs. Length of the body 4^ 

 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. Para. Presented by Eeginald Graham, Esq. 



Volucella obesa, Wied. Auss. Ziveif. ii. 199, 8. Macq. Hist. Nat. 

 Dipt. i. 494, 5. Syrphus obesus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. 763, 5. 

 Ent. Syst. iv. 282, 15. Syst. And. 227, 14. Ornidia obesa, 

 St. Farg. et Serv. Eneyl. x. 786. Walk. Linn. Trans, xvii. 

 346, 41. 



a. Isle of France. 



b. Surinam. 



c. Jamaica. 



d. Brazil. 



e. Carthagena. 



/. Brazil. Presented by Sir C. Stewart. 

 g. Honduras. Presented by Sir C. Stewart. 

 h. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 

 i. Brazil, From Mrs. Noel's collection. 



j. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



k. ? 



Volucella vacua, Wied. Auss. Ziveif. ii. 202, 13. Syrphus va- 

 cuus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 763, 4. Ent. Syst. iv. 281, 14. Syst. 

 And. 227, 13. 



a. Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



b. Georgia. From Mr. Abbot's collection. 



c. South America. 



d. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



