234 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
with hoary, clothed with hoary hairs: abdomen pitchy, obconical, shining 
with blue lustre, a little broader and much longer than the chest, adorned 
with two broad interrupted yellow bands, which on each side of the interrup- 
tion are angular on the fore border and rounded on the hind border: legs 
pitchy ; shanks tawny; hind-shanks pitchy towards the tips : wings colour 
less ; wing-ribs tawny; veins black, tawny at the base and along the fore 
border; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 9 
lines. 
Van Diemen’s Land. 
Syreuus AmbBustus, Mas. 
ZAneo-viridis, capite cyaneo, abdomine nigro maculis sex cyaneo-fulvis or- 
nato segmentorum lateribus marginibusque posticis eneo-viridibus, 
antennis piceis subtus ferrugineis, pedibus nigris, alis subcinereis. 
Head steel blue, with a dull pale tawny tinge on each side, clothed 
with black hairs ; hind part and underside tinged with hoary and clothed 
with hoary hairs; peristoma bright tawny: eyes brassy red; facets on the 
fore-crown larger than elsewhere: feelers pitchy, ferruginous beneath : 
chest and breast brassy green: chest clothed with tawny hairs ; scutcheon 
ferruginous, clothed with black hairs: breast tinged with hoary, «clothed 
with hoary hairs: abdomen black, obconical, much longer but not broader 
than the chest, brassy green on the sides and hind borders of the segments, 
adorned with three pair of tawny spots which shine with blue lustre ; first 
pair very narrow; second and third pair larger: legs black, thinly clothed 
with pale hairs; knees ferruginous ; feet clothed beneath with tawny down: 
wings slightly gray ; wing-ribs tawny; veins black, tawny towards the base ; 
brands pale brown; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines; of the 
wings 8 lines. 
New South Wales. 
Syrpnus Pepius, Mas. 
Aineo-viridis, abdomine nigro maculis sex fulvis ornato, apice eneo, anten- 
nis ferrugineis, pedibus fulvis, alis subfulvis. - 
Metallic green : face mostly adorned with a pale tawny covering: eyes 
red: sucker and feelers ferruginous: chest clothed with tawny hairs: ab- 
domen black, much longer but not broader than the chest, slightly widening 
