250 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
shaped: abdomen obconical, much shorter than the chest, with a broad 
tawny stripe from the base till near the tip which is blue, and hus near it an 
almost annular brassy green mark ; underside tawny: legs tawny; feet 
black, tawny at the base; hind-thighs rather stout, with black tips; hind- 
shanks slightly curved, pitchy with a broad middle tawny band: wings 
almost colourless : wing-ribs pitchy; veins black, pitchy at the base and 
along the fore borders. Length of the body 4} lines; of the wings 10 
lines. 
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ERISTALIS EPITOME, Fem. 
Fulvus, thoracis vittis quatuor pectorisque disco nigris, abdomine nigro 
maculis 6 ventreque fulvis, antennis pedibusque ferrugineis, tarsis 
fulvis apice nigris, alis limpidis. 
Head black, tawny in front, adorned with tawny down which is paler 
on the face; a bare shining stripe on the face, convex in the middle; 
crown clothed with black hairs ; epistoma convex: mouth black: feelers 
ferruginous; sixth joint tawny, black towards the tip: chest and breast 
tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs; chest adorned with four black 
stripes ; disk of the breast black; scutcheon shining : abdomen black, ob- 
conical, a little shorter than the chest, adorned with three pairs of tawny 
spots, first pair very large and forming a broad interrupted band near the 
base, second pair much smaller, third still smaller; underside tawny and 
shining, and this hue extends slightly on each side above towards the se- 
cond and third pairs of spots: legs ferruginous ; feet mostly tawny, their 
tips black; claws and foot-cushions tawny ; tips of the claws black ; hind- 
thighs slender ; hind-shanks slightly curved, rather broad: wings colour- 
less; wing-tibs tawny; veins black, tawny towards the base; poisers 
tawny. Length of the body 5} lines; of the wings 11 lines. 
New Holland. 
