A colourful bug/beetle and a black fly to be identified

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Apr 29, 2012

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This insect is spotted very occasionally in my garden. Can someone help identify this?

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The black fly which was much larger than the ordinary housefly by many folds flew in two days ago.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Apr 29, 2012

The beetle is a flower scarab (subfamily Cetoniinae) - see http://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/167580.jpg
The fly is a bee fly - http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rYgleXxkfX8/Tndv-msrX_I/AAAAAAAAEQE/LV2zR47IS3I/s640/beefly1.JPG

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Jul 15, 2012

I checked up again today and found that there are hundreds of genera of this Bee Fly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombyliidae
Even The Scarab beetle seems to have a vast variety.

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