THREE NEW SPECIES OF TWO-WINGED FLIES OF THE 

 FAMILY BOMBYLIIDAE FROM INDIA 



By J. M. Aldrich 



Assockite Cuiaior, Division of Inserts, United states yntioiwl Musevm 



The following new species of Bombyliidae were reared by C. P. 

 Clausen as secondary parasites on Hymenoptera of the genus Tiphia, 

 which were parasites of scarabaeid beetles of the subfamily Rutelinae 

 in India. Mr. Clausen also reared HyperoJlonia oenomaus Rondani 

 with the same habits and in the same region. 



APHOEBANTUS CLAUSENI, new species 



Male. — Ground color black except femora and tibiae. Head glo- 

 bose, hind margin of eye with the usual deep notch and bisection; 

 occiput with deep cleft behind vertex ; front at vertex twice as wide 

 as ocellar triangle, gradually Avidening to antennae, where it is about 

 one-fourth of the head width; face receding; front and face with 

 black hairs, the former with golden appressed scales, the latter with 

 erect yellow hairs mixed with the black; antennae short, the third 

 joint obliquely onion-shaped, the basal enlarged part shorter than 

 second joint, the stjde about equal to half the slender part of the 

 joint. Dorsum of thorax and scutellum thinly covered with ap- 

 pressed deep golden tangled hairs mixed with erect slender black 

 ones; a collar of yellow hairs next to head; pleurae glaucous, meso- 

 pleura Vvith abundant yellow hairs; three rather large black bristles 

 before base of wing and several on postalar callus; scutellum with 

 four pairs of black bristles on margin, equally spaced. Abdomen 

 with same golden appressed hair as mesonotum, mixed with black 

 hairs not so erect; first segment with dense brush on each side of 

 erect blunt yellow hairs. Legs yellow, the coxae, base of front 

 femora, tip of hind femora above, and tarsi black; all the tibiae with 

 rows of small spines; pulvilli normal; hind femur without row of 

 bristles on lower hind edge. Halteres yellow, distal part of stem 

 and base of knob infuscated. Wings brown, gradually paler poste- 

 riorly; second vein branching from third opposite extreme base of 



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