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Fam. SYKPHID.E, Leacli. 



Gen. Syrphus, Fair. 



7. Syrphus ericetorum, Fabr. See Vol. III. p. 97. 



Fam. MUSCIDJE, Latr. 

 Subfam. Tachinldes, Walk. 



Gen. Etjrtgaster, Macq. 



8. Eurygaster remittens, Walk. See Vol. IV. p. 125. 



Subfam. Dexides, Walk. 

 Gen. Dexia, Meigen. 



9. Dexia parallela, n. s. Mas. Nigra, angusta, cylindrica, palpis 

 antennisque rufis, his apice piceis, arista plumosa, thorace vittis tribus 

 albidis, abdomine chalybeo-nigro fasciis albidis atrisque, pedibus 

 longis, alis vitreis vitta costali nigra. 



Male. Black, long, slender, cylindrical ; head white, with a black band 

 on each side between the eye and the epistoma ; front prominent ; 

 frontalia broad, deep black ; face slightly oblique ; antennae and palpi 

 red ; the former piceous towards the tips, nearly reaching the epi- 

 stoma; 3rd joint linear, slender, rounded at the tip, about four times 

 the length of the 2nd ; arista plumose ; thorax with three whitish 

 stripes, the lateral pair broad, interrupted ; pectus and postscutellum 

 whitish, the former with two black bands on each side ; abdomen 

 chalybeous black, full twice the length of the thorax ; segments with 

 whitish fore borders and deep-black hind borders ; legs long, slender ; 

 wings vitreous, with a black costal stripe, which is interlined with 

 cinereous ; veins pale except along the costa ; prsebrachial vein 

 forming a slightly obtuse angle at its flexure, slightly curved inward 

 from thence to its tip; discal transverse vein slightly undulating, 

 parted by half its length from the border, and by a little less than its 

 length from the flexure of the prsebrachial ; alulae large, white. Length 

 of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



Gen. Kutilia, Desv. 



10. Rutilia atribasis, Walk. See Vol. V. p. 288. 



11. Rutilia excelsa, n. s. Mas. Cyaneo-viridis, capite albo strigis 

 duabus lateralibns anticis nigris, frontalibus atris, abdomine cupreo, 

 basi vitta et segmentorum marginibus posticis nigris, pedibus nigris, 

 alis fuscescenti-cinereis basi fusco notatis. 



Male. Bluish green ; head white, with a black streak on each side, 

 extending from the borders of the eyes to the epistoma ; frontalia 

 deep black, very narrow on the vertex, widening much in front ; thorax 



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