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the frons along the eye-margius, clothed with stiff black hairs aud 

 small yellow scales and some short bright yellow hairs around 

 the yellowish mouth-opening ; proboscis black ; antennjB black ; 

 occiput black, with small yellow scales, at least near eye-margins, 

 probably extending much further hindwards also, with a fringe of 

 yellow hairs on the hinder margin. Thorax dark olive-brown, 

 nearly black ; anterior margin with thickly placed, long orange- 

 yellow scales; a bunch of reddish-orange scales below the 

 shouldei's, and also apparently in the same places as they occur 

 in H.flaviventris : short yellow hairs above the wings aud on hind 

 margin of dorsum ; posterior calli reddish brown ; scutellum red- 

 brown, base more or less black, hind margin with short yellow 

 hairs; macrochjeta? of thorax and scutellum as in H.flaviventris. 

 Abdomen black, with a slight violet tinge ; a bunch of elongate 

 oraiige scales at sides of 1st segment aud traces of a few silvery- 

 white scales on 6th towards the sides ; venter black, with some 

 scale-like yelloAv hairs and much longer fine yellow hairs, forming 

 together a median stripe; genitalia very dark brown, shining, 

 knob-like, with a row of spines at tip. Legs dark yellowish 

 brown ; femora and tibiae with small bristles, strongest on hind 

 tibiae; femora with closely applied small concolorous scales. 

 Wings rather dark brown ; outer fourth of marginal cell and the 

 three outer submarginal cells wholly or nearly wholly pale grey; 

 alula? and alar squamae with a fringe of dark brown scales; 

 halteres blackish brown, tips of knobs paler. 



Length, ll-12i mm. 



Redescribed from one d in the Indian Museum from Tenmalai, 

 Travancore, 22. xi. 1908 {Annandale). 



135. Hyperalonia tantalus, F. 



Anthrax tantalus, Fabricius, Eut. Svst. iv, p. 260 (1794) ; Wiede- 

 mauD, Auss. Zweili. i, p. 255 (1828); Macquart, tlist. Nat. Dipt, 

 i, p. 40] (1834). ^ ' ^ > i> 



Eroprosopu tantalm, Macquart, Dipt. Exot. ii, 1, p. 37 a840) ; 



Kert«5sz, Kat. Pala^arc. Dipt, ii, p. 169; de Meiiere, Tiid. V. Ent. 



1, p. 239 (1907). r r , j , j 



Hyperalonia tantaluK, Rondani, Ann. Mus. Geuova, vii, p. 453 



(J 875); Bnuietti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 438 (1909). 

 Anthrax cceruleopeiinis, Doleschall, Nat. Tiid. Ned. Ind. xiv, n. 400. 



pi. ix, fig. 2 (1867). '1 ' 



6 5 . Head with frons barely one-third the width of the head 

 above antenna;, narrowing to two-thirds of this Avidth at vertex; 

 black, with black hairs on upper part, aud with black hairs mixed 

 with yellow scale-like hairs on lower part ; face reddish brown, 

 witli a blackish median longitudinal stripe, irregular in extent; 

 mouth-border varying from reddish brown to yellowish white; 

 proboscis and palpi black, concealed; antennae wholly black; 

 occiput black, with small yellow depressed hairs. Thorax black, 

 Mith black pubescence, bearing bright orange or yellowish-orange 

 scaly hairs on anterior margin and in bunches and patches as in 



