. Diptera Brachycera. Brachycera. 222 pubescence extends over the sides also. Scutelluni nearly the full width of thorax, tawny, darker at base, covered with thick yellow liair. Abdomen black, moderately shining, with very short, rather thick black liair. On the sides of the 2nd segment, a very large pale aeneous trinngular spot, covered witli yellowish- grey hair; extreme edge of abdomen, except just before tip, with a fringe of short bright yellow hair. Legs wholly brown, with yellow hair on outer side of all tibiae, on the coxae and on hind femora; latter with a fringe of brown
. Diptera Brachycera. Brachycera. 222 pubescence extends over the sides also. Scutelluni nearly the full width of thorax, tawny, darker at base, covered with thick yellow liair. Abdomen black, moderately shining, with very short, rather thick black liair. On the sides of the 2nd segment, a very large pale aeneous trinngular spot, covered witli yellowish- grey hair; extreme edge of abdomen, except just before tip, with a fringe of short bright yellow hair. Legs wholly brown, with yellow hair on outer side of all tibiae, on the coxae and on hind femora; latter with a fringe of brown hair on more than apical half below. Wings yellow, veins tawny-brown, stigma tawny- brown, placed near tip of wing; halteres and tegulae yello\\isli- brown. Length, 14 mm. Described from the ti/pe J in the Indian Museum collection, from Margherita, Assam. A second d" from Singla, Darjiling District, 1500 ft., iv. 1913 (Lord CarmichaeVs collector). Tlie inflexed portions of the 3rd and 4th longitudinal veins are considerably curved, exactly as in 21erodon. A. hifascia is closely allied to scuteUaris but is quite distinct, the differences lying in the rather less prominent face, the aeneous spots en the 2nd abdominal segment (which since my description of the species have become very faded), the distinctly broader apical part of the abdomen (which in scuteUaris is bluntly conical), the yellow pubescence at the sides of the abdomen (which is whitish in scuteUaris) and the tmiformly brown legs, which in scuteUaris are black with the basal half of the posterior tibia) yellow. Genus AXONA, WaUc. Axona, Walker, Proc. Linn. Soc Lond. vii, p. 211 (1864). Genotype, Eristalis clialcopygus, Wied., described by Walker as A. voluceUoides, sp. nov. Body subfusiform. Bead prominent, shortly conical, very little. Fig. 43.—Axona cijanea, Urun., c?. iiiirrower than thorax. Eyes in J very closely contiguous for a long distance, vertical triangle small, space con\ex,. Please note th
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