456 Descriptions of British Diptera. 



antennae black, with the base yellow ; palpi testaceous : thorax and 

 scutellum greyish, the former with three black lines on the back, 

 and the sides yellow : abdomen yellow, the first segment black in 

 the centre, the second with two connivent black spots of a triangu- 

 lar shape, the remainder black, with a yellow posterior border, which 

 is dilated in the middle and on the sides ; under side dull yellow, 

 the base of the segments suffused with brown : thighs dark brown ; 

 tibiae rufous, the anterior with the upper half brown ; tarsi like- 

 wise rufous, the whole of the anterior pair and the apex of the joints 

 in the rest dusky. 



Rather a scarce species, at least in the more northern parts of 

 the country ; it is common in the north of France, and will pro- 

 bably not be rare in some of the southern counties of England. 

 " Occurs in Cambridgeshire, but is much less common than C. 

 ccecutiens." Rev. Leonard Jenyns. " Cambridge," Charles C. Bab- 

 ington, Esq. " Near London," Stephens's Catal. " Ireland." A. 

 H. Haliday, Esq. 



Chrysops pictus. 

 'Meig. Ziuei. ii. 70. Macquart, Dip. du Nord de la France, 166. — Chry. 

 viduatus, Var. Meig. Klass. i. 1 58, 2. 



Very similar to the foregoing, but differing in several important 

 characters. Hypostome and forehead greyish-white, with several 

 glabrous black spots, as in the other species ; palpi and antennae 

 testaceous ; the terminal joint of the latter dusky, except at the 

 base : thorax shining black, with three longitudinal greyish lines, 

 the sides reddish ; scutellum black : abdomen with the first seg- 

 ment yellow on the sides, and black round the scutellum ; the 

 second yellow, with a small triangular, or rather slightly lunate 

 black spot on its middle ; third yellow, with a transverse black 

 fascia broadest towards the middie, but having its centre emar- 

 ginate behind ; the remaining segments black, with the hinder mar- 

 gin yellow : legs yellow, the thighs and last joints of the tarsi black. 

 The wings do not differ much from those of C. ccecutiens, but the 

 dark clouds are less opaque, particularly the apical one, and not 

 covering so much of the wing. 4^ lines. 



For a notice of this species, which we have now the pleasure to 

 describe, for the first time, as a British insect, we are indebted to 

 Charles C. Babington, Esq. who met with it in Monkswood, Hunts, 

 June 23, 1829. The above description applies to the female only, 

 the other sex does not appear to have hitherto been noticed by en- 

 tomologists. 



