_Male and Female._ Black; head yellow, with an elongate black spot above the antennæ, and with another above the epistoma; mouth black; palpi and antennæ reddish; thorax with two yellow stripes; each of its sides in front with a large yellow spot, the latter connected with a band across the pectus; two yellow bands, the 1st interrupted; scutellum bordered with yellow; pectus with two yellow bands on each side; abdomen with three yellow bands and with three chalybeous bands; 3rd yellow band slightly interrupted; legs luteous; femora striped beneath with black; tarsi black, with luteous tips; wings grey, brown along the costa; veins black; halteres yellow. _Male._ Abdomen with a subapical interrupted band; 1st band notched on the hind side. _Female._ First abdominal band slightly interrupted. Length of the body 8-9 lines; of the wings 14-16 lines. Gen. GRAPTOMYZA, _Wied._ 85. GRAPTOMYZA TIBIALIS, _Wlk._ See Vol. II. p. 95. _Foem.?_ Lutea, crassa, lata, pubescens, vertice et epistomatis linea nigris, thoracis maculis duabus, disco postico, scutelli pectorisque discis cupreo-nigris, abdomine fasciis tribus nigris, femoribus anterioribus tibiisque nigro fasciatis. _Female?_ Luteous, pubescent, broad, thick; vertex black; epistoma conical, forked at the tip, with a black line; proboscis longer than the thorax, black towards the base; arista plumose; two large spots on the thorax, its disk hindward, disk of the scutellum and disk of the pectus cupreous black; abdomen highly arched, with three black bands which are produced and slightly interrupted in the middle; apical band very broad; tibiæ and anterior femora with black bands; wings with a luteous stigma. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 8 lines. Gen. ERISTALIS, _Latr._ 86. Eristalis crassus, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ IV. 281, 12. Inhabits also Hindostan. 87. Eristalis Æsepus, _Wlk. Cat. Dipt._ pt. 3, 625. Inhabits also China. 88. ERISTALIS BOMBOIDES, n. s. _Mas._ Ater, capite albo, arista nuda, thorace pubescente fascia cinerea fasciaque chalybeo-nigra, pectore cinereo, abdomine fasciis quatuor chalybeo-nigris, vittis duabus ventralibus latis albidis; tibiis basi flavis, alis nigricante-fuscis cinereo marginatis, halteribus flavis. _Male._ Deep black; head with black hairs on the front and with white tomentum in front and behind; arista simple; thorax thickly pubescent, having in front a cinereous band which is tawny on each side, and a chalybeous black hinder band; scutellum chalybeous-black; pectus cinereous; abdomen with four chalybeous-black bands; the 1st widely interrupted; under side with a broad short whitish stripe on each side; hind (and anterior?) tibiæ yellow at the base; wings blackish-brown, cinereous towards the tips and along the hind border; veins black; halteres yellow. Length of the body 5-1/2 lines; of the wings 11 lines. Gen. HELOPHILUS, _Meigen_. The two following _Helophili_ may be merely varieties of _H. quadrivittatus_.