182 BOMBYLIID^. 



H. JJnvivenir is and chrysolamjns, and yellow hairs above wing-base- 

 and on hind margin of dorsum ; macrochtette as in those species ; 

 posterior calli reddish brown. Scutellum reddish brown, base 

 more or less black, with black pubescence and with a row of spines- 

 and short yellow hairs on hind margin. Abdomen almost entirely 

 as in B. chrysolampis, but the silvery-white scale-spots on 6th and 

 7th segments more elongate, nearl}^ attniuiug the side-margins ; 

 .1 median yentral stripe of small whitish scaly hairs, no yellow 

 hair whatever being present ; genitalia concealed, yeUowish brown, 

 with black bristles in (5 , and yellowish with an apical circlet of 

 short black spines in $ . Ler/s black, sometimes a veiT dark 

 brown tinge to the tibiae; vestitui'e as mH. chrysolampis. Wings- 

 very dark brown, with a violet tiuge? ahiLT, alar squamae, and 

 halteres as in //. chi-ysolampis. 



Length, 13-16 mm. 



Kedescribed from several specimens in the Indian Museum. 



Eanjitsing, Darjiliug Distr. ; Kliatgodam, Naini Tal Distr., 

 23. ix. 1915; Katmandu and Soondrijal, Nepal; Sadiya and 

 Sibsagar, Assam ; Tranquebar ; Tenasserim ; Sumatra ; Java ;, 

 Berlinhafen, Papua ; Borneo ; Celebes ; Cluiia ; Japan. 



Type in the Wiedemann collection. 



136. Hyperalonia chrysolampis, Jaen. 



Exopyosopa chri/soJmnpis, Jaeunicke, Abh. Senck. Nat. Ges, vi, 



p. 344, pi. xliii, fig. 8 (1867). 

 Hi/peraJonia chn/solmnpis, Enmetti. liec. Iiid. Mus. ii, p. 439 (1909) ;. 



de Meijere, Tijd. y. Ent. liv, p. 295 (1911). 



S 2 . Head with frous barely one-third width of head above 

 antennae, narrowing to two-thirds of this width at vertex ; dark 

 olive-brown, with short black pubescence, with which is mixed on 

 the lower half small bright yellow scnle-like hairs ; ocellar triangle 

 small, reddish brown : face darker, blackish, more or less reddish 

 brown along inner margin of eyes, clothed with more bristly black 

 hairs than the frons, and yellow scale-like hairs ; mouth-opening 

 with short yellow hairs; proboscis atid palpi black; 1st antennal 

 joint reddish brown, 2nd and 3rd black, two basal joints 

 bristly; occiput with short yellow hairs, its hind border with a 

 fringe of similarly coloured hairs. T'/jorrt.r black, with short black 

 pubescence ; thick bright orange-yellow scale-like hairs on an- 

 terior margin, and bunches or patches of concolorous hairs 

 situated as in H. jlavivcntris, a few short yellow hairs above the 

 wing-base and on hind mai'gin of dorsum ; sides and lower part 

 black ; scLitellum black, with posterior part more or less dull 

 reddish brown, black pubescent, hind margin with short yellow 

 hairs and a row of spines. Macrochcetae as in H. faviventris. 

 Abdomen black, with short black depressed pubescence ; 3rd 

 segment with a distinct basal band of small silvery-white narrow 

 scales, which is narrowest in middle, and more than half the 

 length of the segment towards tlie sides ; a basal spot of similar 



