240 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
dark tawny at the base and along the fore border; brands pale brown ; 
poisers tawny. Length of the body 2% lines; of the wings 5 lines. 
Brazil. 
Syrpnus Paciius, Fem. 
ZEneo-viridis, capite aureo, abdomine nigro maculis octo fulvis ornato 
apice neo, untennis pedibusque fulvis, pedibus posticis piceis, alis 
limpidis. 
Head gold colour, with a bronze shining stripe between the feelers and 
the epistoma, which is prominent: eyes red: feelers tawny: chest and 
breast brassy green : abdomen black, nearly linear, brassy and obconical to- 
wards the tip, very much longer than the chest, adorned with four pairs of 
tawny spots which successively decrease in size : legs tawny, darker about the 
middle of the joints ; hind-legs mostly pitchy : wings colourless ; wing-ribs 
tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base and along the fore border ; brands 
dark tawny ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 
lines. 
North America. 
Syrpuus Varta, Mas. 
Cyaneo-viridis, capite supra flavo, thoraeis lateribus scutelloque fulvis, 
abdomine rufo-fulvo fasciis duabus nigris duabusque picets et non- 
nunquam maculis nigris ornato, antennis luteis, pedibus fulvis tibiis 
posticis apice tarsisque posticis piceis, alis limpidis. 
Head black, bright yellow above, adorned with a tawny covering and 
clothed with hoary hairs beneath: eyes red: mouth black with a tawny 
tip: feelers luteous ; sixth joint black, tawny at the base : chest and breast 
bluish green: chest adorned with a ferruginous covering, which forms two 
bands ; sides and scutcheon tawny: abdomen tawny, nearly linear, much 
longer than the chest, adorned with four bands; the first and the second 
black on the borders of the first segment; third and fourth pitchy on the 
hind borders of the second and third segments, which when darkest are each 
adorned with a pair of black spots; a single black spot on the fourth seg- 
ment; disks of the third and the fourth segments reddish : legs tawny ; 
hind-feet and tips of hind-shanks pitchy : wings colourless; wing-ribs 
