DIPTERA, 231 
breadth excepting the hind border ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black ; poisers 
tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 
Cape. 
SynpHus Cranapes, Mas et Fem. 
Chalybeus, capite flavo, thoracis lateribus scutelloque fulvis, tioning 
piceo, ventre fasctisque quatuor flavis, fascia 1a interrupta, 2a 3a-que 
integris, 4a apicali ad diseum picea, antennis fulvis supra piceis, pe- 
dibus flavis posticis fulvis, alis limpidis. 
Allied to S. Ribesti. Head yellow, paler in front, whitish and clothed 
with pale yellow hairs behind ; a brassy spot about the eyelets joins by an in- 
distinct stripe a triangular chalybeous spot above the base of the feelers, this 
spot is very small in the male; crown thinly clothed with black hairs: 
eyes red: feelers tawny, pitchy above; sixth joint tawny: chest and breast 
steel blue, clothed with tawny hairs; scutcheon and sides of the chest tawny : 
breast tinged with gray: abdomen elliptical, pitehy, much longer and 
broader than the chest, tinged with steel blue, adorned with four very broad 
yellow bands, the first interrupted and angular ; second and third straight 
and entire ; fourth at the tip, its disk pitchy ; underside yellow : legs yel- 
low; tips of the feet pitchy ; Aind legs except the base of the thighs tawny : 
wings colourless ; wing-ribs tawny; veins black, tawny at the base; brands 
brown. Length of the body 5} lines; of the wings 12 lines. 
East Indies. 
Syrpous Orsva. 
Chalybeus, thorace antico scutellogue fulvis, abdomine ferrugineo ad dis- 
cumecyaneo-piceo, fasctis flavis una interrupta duabus integris dua- 
busque parvis apicalibus ornato, pedibus fulvis, alis limpidis. 
Head wanting : chest and breast steel blue: chest clothed with tawny 
hairs ; front and scutcheon tawny: breast tinged with hoary, clothed with 
whitish hairs: abdomen dark ferruginous, nearly elliptical, longer but 
hardly broader than the chest, partly pitchy with a bluish tinge, adorned 
with five yellow bands, the first interrupted, the second and the third entire, 
very slightly arched, the fourth and the fifth very small at the tip: legs 
tawny ; feet pitchy towards the tips; hind-legs darker than the other pair : 
wings colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; brands 
