. Diptera Brachycera. Brachycera. 132 SYRPHIByE. stripes very obvious ; scutellum coneolorous, bind margia very narrowly brownisli-yello*'; dorsum witli a few sbort black hairs; sides of thorax coneolorous, a little pale yellow hair about pleurae and base of wings. Abdomen blackish, Isl segment pale whitish- yellow except for the dark posterior corners; 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments each with a pair of well separated oblong yellowish spots (about as wide as one-third the length of the segment), placed towards but not on the anterior margin, their extremities attaining the lateral margins of the se
. Diptera Brachycera. Brachycera. 132 SYRPHIByE. stripes very obvious ; scutellum coneolorous, bind margia very narrowly brownisli-yello*'; dorsum witli a few sbort black hairs; sides of thorax coneolorous, a little pale yellow hair about pleurae and base of wings. Abdomen blackish, Isl segment pale whitish- yellow except for the dark posterior corners; 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments each with a pair of well separated oblong yellowish spots (about as wide as one-third the length of the segment), placed towards but not on the anterior margin, their extremities attaining the lateral margins of the segments ; a little yellowish hair at the sides of the abdomen, basally ; venter blackish. Legs brownish- yellow ; coxae and extreme base of femora black; tips of tarsi a little brown ; femora with a very little pale hair. Wings clear yellowish-grey ; stigmatic region of subcostal cell yellowish; tegul^e brown with yellow fringe ; halteres brownish-j^ellow. Length, 8 mm. Described from one 5 in the Indian Museum from Dibrugarh, Assam, 17. xi. 1911 {Kemp). 106. Ehingia laticincta, Brun. li/iinf/ia hiti'chicta, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 58 (1908); i, pi. xi, fig-. 7, abdomen (1907). (S 2 • H^iid : snout tawny ; lower part of head shining grey ; antennae tawny ; eyes quite contiguous as far as vertex ; frons in $ of about the usual width in the genus, cinereous-grey. Thorax with aeneous reflections and soft black and grey hiiir; four blackish longitudinal stripes, not always very distinct, the two outer ones interrupted at the suture, the two inner ones close together on the front, diverging widely posteriorly, where. Fig. 28 ff.—Bhiiigia laticincta, Bran., typical form S 9' abdomen. they become diffused and meet the ends of the outer pair just iu front of the scutellum. Scutellum unicolorous, similarly haired, a row of stiff black hairs on posterior edge, from wliich a fringe of soft pale yellow hair hangs down. Abdomen bright tawny, with soft yellow hair
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