186 BOMBYLIIDiE, 



Eedescribed from a c? from Peshoke Spur, Darjiling Distr. 

 (Lister); 3 2 2 from Eungpo, Sikkim, 1400 ft., 6! ix. 1909 ; 2 

 § 2 from "Sikkim"; 1 $ from Mergui; and two d6 from 

 Sadiya — all in tlie Indian Museum; Sarawak; Philippines. 



Tupe in Genoa Museum. 



139. Hyperalonia aiirantiaca, Gner. 



Anthrax auraniiaca, Giierin, Icon. Regne Anim. iii (Ins.), p. 539, 



pi. xcv, fio-. 6 (? 1843). 

 Iliiperalonia aiirautiaca, Brunetti, Kec. lud. Mus. ii, p. 440 (1909). 



Head with f rons a little narrower on vertex than above antennse, 

 where it is barelj' one-third the width of the head ; dark olive- 

 brown with black juibescence, intermixed with small narroAV 

 bright yellow scale-like hairs, which are most numerous on the 

 lower part; face yellowish, becoming pale creamy white about 

 mouth-opening and on lower part of head; ralher closely covered 

 with similar yellow pubescence to that of the frons, but more 

 hair-like, especially round the mouth-opening; proboscis as long 

 as height of head, blackish brown, with a few whitish hairs ; 

 antennie black, 1st and 2nd joints bristly ; occiput black, with 

 short yellow scale-like hairs around eye-margins. Thorax black, 

 with bright yellow pubescence as in H. sphinx ; paler hairs on 

 sternopleurfe ; posterior calli dark reddisli brown ; scutellum dark 

 reddish brown, blackish at base, covered with short yellow hair, 

 and the usual marginal row of spines. Abdomen black, with black 

 pubescence, clothed almost entirely with yellow scale-like hairs,. 

 which are apparently absent from a broad median space from base 

 to tip ; a bunch of concolorous elongate scales at each side of 

 base of abdomen, and a patch of silvery-white scale-like hairs at 

 each side, contiguous to the margins, of the tjth and 7th segments ; 

 sides of abdomen with coarse black hairs. Yenter black, with 

 silvery-white scales; almost wholly covering 2nd and 3rd seg- 

 ments and continued broadly in the median line over 4th and 5th 

 segments, a median line also of sparse long fint! wliite hairs ; 

 genitalia concealed, apparently normal. Legs very dark brown, 

 nearly black; coxa? ash-grey, with long pale yellowish hairs and 

 some strong long black spines ; femora and tibia? with small 

 closely applied grey scales, diihcult to perceive on middle femora 

 and fore tibice ; fore femora and tibite without obvious bristles, 

 but these are present on posterior femora and tibise ; tarsi black, 

 pubescent. Wimjs moderately dark brown on anterior lialf, the 

 colour fading to grey posteriorly, with a violet iridescence in 

 certain lights ; sometimes the discs of the cells on tlie hinder 

 half of wing a little pnler; 2nd poslerior cell distinctly wider at 

 base than tip; halteres brownish yellow: alar squamae with a 

 fringe of long yellow scales. 



Length, 11-13 mm. 



Eedescribed from a perfect $ from Siripur, Saran, Korth 

 Bengal, 25. ix. 1010 : it occurs also at Chapra, Jiei) gal (Jlacl-enzie). 



