COLLECTED AT SINGAPORE AND MALACCA. 
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femoribus anterioribus testaceis apice nigris, poaticis baai teBtaceis, alia sub- 
cinereis. 
Male and Female. Chalybeous black, slender. Antennae of the male piceous, 
of the female tawny. Abdomen with three dull interrupted testaceous 
bands, slightly compressed for three-quarters of the length in the male. 
Legs black ; anterior femora testaceous with black tips ; hind femora tes- 
taceous at the base. Wings greyish ; veins and stigma black. Halteres 
testaceous. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 
Singapore. 
65. Syrphus TRimGATtrs, n. s., mas. Flavus gracilis, antennis fulvis, thoracis 
disco chalybeo-nigro, pectore et metathorace nigris, abdominis fasciis qua- 
tuor latis quatuorque angustis nigris, femoribus posticis nigro latb fasciatis, 
tibiis tarsisque posticis nigris, alis subcinereis. 
Male. Pale yellow, rather slender. Antennae tawny. Disk of the thorax 
chalybeous black. Pectus and metathorax mostly black. Abdomen with 
eight black bands which are alternately broad and narrow. Hind femora 
with a broad black band ; hind tibiae and hind tarsi black. Wings greyish ; 
stigma brown j veins black. Halteres pale testaceous. Length of the body 
44 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 
Mount Opliir. 
Pam. MTJSCID^E, Lair. 
Subfam. Tachinides, Walk. 
Gen. Echinomyia, Dvmeril . 
66, Echinomyia bbetipexnis, n. s., mas. Nigra, capite antice albo, fronta- 
libus ferrugineis, seutello abdominisque fasciis testaceis, alis subcinereis 
parvis basi limpidis. 
Male. Black, stout. Head white, with white hairs beneath ; front and vertex 
black, sinning ; frontalia ferruginous, slightly widening from the vertex to 
the antennae; epistoma slightly prominent. Antennae extending to two- 
thirds of the length of the face ; 3rd joint truncated, not much longer than 
broad, much broader and shorter than the 2nd ; arista stout, tapering fi-om 
its two indistinct basal joints, full twice the length of the 3rd joint. Sou- 
tellum testaceous. Abdomen elongate-oval, longer than the thorax. Wings 
greyish, rather short, limpid towards the base; veins black, testaceous 
towards the base ; prae brachial vein forming a very slightly acute angle at 
its flexure, near which it is very deeply curved inward, and is thence straight 
to its tip which joins the tip of the costal ; discal transverse vein straight, 
parted by much less than its length from the border, and by little more 
than half its length from the flexure of the praebrachial. Alulae greyish, 
with testaceous borders. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 9 Knee. 
Mount Ophir, at the height of 4000 feet. 
Gen. Tachina, Fabr. 
67. Tachina Ophirica, n. $., foem. Cinerea, latiuscula, capite argenteo, fron- 
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