1 S8 BOMBYLIID^. 



(Gravel ij); Trivandruni, 13. xi. 1908 (Amiandah) ; Coimbatore, 

 S. India, 29. vii. 1912 ; Colombo, 1. vii. 1904 {Bninetti), vi. 1894 

 (E. E. Green) ; Trinconiali, 17. vii. 1890 {CoJ. Yerhunj). 

 Types in Fabricius's and Wiedemann's collections. 



141. Hyperalonia siiJBTusipennis, Brun. (PI. Ill, fig. J.) 



Ilyperalonia sitffusipennis, Bruiietti, Rec. Iiid. Mus. ii, p. 462 

 (1909). 



Head witli vertex dark grej'^ to blackish ; frons orange, paling 

 gradually to the yellow face, or face also all orange, both with 

 elongate chrome-yellow scales, with black hairs intermixed ou 

 upper part of frons ; lower part of frons and the face with yellow 

 pubescence ; mouth-opening with pale yellow hairs ; proboscis 

 blackish brown ; palpi long, thin, yellow ; antennae orauge-red, 

 1st and 2nd joints with bristly yellow hairs on each side and some 

 short black bristles above ; 3rd joint black. Thorax blacdi, with 

 rather thick short yellowish depressed hairs on dorsum, and thick 

 long bristly whitish hairs below the wings ; elongate yellowish 

 scales thickly ou anterior margin, below shoulders, and on posterior 

 calli ; scutellum tawny brown, with sliort thick yellow hairs and 

 a row of stiff long black spines on posterior border. Abdomen 

 blackish, dark reddish towards the sides of the 2nd and 3rd 

 segments ; dorsum covered with moderately thick yellowish scale- 

 like hairs, intermixed with black pubescence ; a large fan-like 

 bunch of elongate dirty yellowisli scales at sides of 1st and 2nd 

 segments ; venter with whitish hairs. Legs brownish tawny, 

 00X36 with whitish hairs, tarsi nearly black. Wings pale grey, 

 dai'ker and more yellowisli on anterior margin and at base ; a 

 slight but distinct suffusion at nearly all the junctures of the 

 veins and cross-veins; halteres pale yellowish white; alulae and 

 alar squamte with a thick fringe of yellow scales. 



Length, 15 mm. 



Described from two $ $ in good condition, in the Indian 

 Museum, from the Purneah District, India, and one from 

 Jaulasal, jS^aini Tal Distr., 11. iv. 1910; a fourth specimen from 

 Dehra Dun, v. 1914 (Chatierjee) • and a darker variety from 

 Coorg, S. India, 1. xi. 1915 {Hannyngton). 



A very distinct species. 



142. Hyperalonia semifuscata. Bran. (PL III, fig. 2.) 



Hyperalonia s^cmifnscata, Erunetti, Rec. lud. Mus. vii, p. 266 

 (1912). 



$ . Head much developed behijal eyes ; frons one-third of 

 width of head at level of antennae, nan-owing at vertex to half 

 this width, blackish, with yellowish scales and long black hairs; 

 face with brighter and thicker yellow hairs ; mouth-border broadly 

 orange-yellow, with yellow hairs ; proboscis dark brown ; antennae 

 reddish brown,* 3rd joint very elongate-conical, with a distinct 



* The 2ncl and 3rcl joints df the antennae have since tui'ned blackish. 



