218 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA, 
Genus CHRYSOTOXUM, Meigen. 
Curysoroxum ANTIquuM, Mas. 
ZEneum, capite thoracis maculis quatuor scutello pectorisque maculis 
duabus flavis, abdomine purpureo-nigro fasciis duabus interruptis 
maculisque duabus fulvis ornato, ventre nigro maculis quatuor fulvis, 
antennis nigris basi rufis, pedibus fulvis, femoribus bast nigris, alis 
subcinereis ad costam fulvis. 
Head bright yellow above, whitish and clothed with pale yellow hairs 
in front and beneath ; a pitchy stripe between the feelers and the epistoma : 
eyes coppery red above, pitchy beneath where the facets are smallest: 
feelers black ; first and second joints dark red, beset with very short black 
bristles: sixth joint tawny: chest and breast brassy, clothed with tawny 
hairs: chest adorned with two yellow spots on each side ; scutcheon yellow 
with «a pitchy spot in the disk: a large yellow mark on each side of the 
breast : abdomen purplish black, longer and broader than the chest, adorned 
with two interrupted arched tawny bands and near to the tip with two very 
small tawny spots ; underside black, shining, adorned with four large tawny 
spots : legs tawny ; thighs black towards the base: wings slightly gray, dark 
tawny along the fore border, paler in the disk where the two colours blend ; 
wing-ribs and veins ferruginous, the latter pitchy towards the tips ; poisers 
tawny. Length of the body 7 lines; of the wings 14 lines. 
East Indies. 
Curysoroxum tnpicum, Mas. 
AE neum, capite thoracisque vittis duabus, scutellique margine flavis, scu- 
tello pectore abdomineque fulvis huic fasciis quatuor nigris, antennis 
Serrugineis, apice piceis, pedibus fulvis, alis limpidis. 
FTead bright yellow, whitish and clothed with whitish hairs behind and 
beneath ; a tawny stripe between the feelers and the epistoma, on ap- 
proaching which it becomes pitchy : eyes pitchy ; all the facets very small: 
feelers ferruginous, pitchy towards the tips: chest and breast brassy : chest 
with a yellow stripe on each side ; scutcheon tawny with a yellow hind bor- 
der ; breast partly tawny : abdomen tawny, yellow towards the base, pitchy 
at the lip, adorned with four arched black bands ; the first and second nar- 
row and entire, joined together by a short middle stripe, third and fourth 
