192 BOMBYLIIDiE. 



reddish brown ; wing clear, costal and 

 subcostal cells pale yellowish grey; 

 venter with soft snow-white hairs in 



middle vitrca, Big., p. 210. 



Antenn;e black, i'erriiginous at base ; 

 "thorax with tawny hairs"; scutellum 

 and thorax ferruginous ; dorsum of abdo- 

 men with fringe of pale yellow hairs on 

 fore border of each segment, and " more 

 completely clothed on the underside " ; 



wings a little greyish, slightly tawny at [p. 211, 



base and on fore border , hasifascia, Walk., 



143. Exoprosopa flavipennis, Bnin. 



Exopvosopa Jlavipennis, Briuietti, Rec. Ind. Mus, ii, p. 4G5 (1909J. 



5 . Head with frons and ocelli as in jiammea ; frons orange, 

 with close short golden-orange hairs; mouth-border yellow: 

 proboscis brown, shorter than the head; eyes reddish brown, 

 bare, with small, uniform facets ; back of head reddish orange, 

 bare, considerably prominent, with a narrow fringe of very short 

 bright vellow hairs on the margin of the cavity behind. Antenna? 

 orange; first two joints sub-cylindrical, wider at tip, with yellow 

 hairs ; 2nd shorter than 1st ; 3rd joint twice as long as first two 

 together, bai-e, the upper side quite straight, the underside rapidly 

 narrowing from base to tip, a very distinct cylindrical style at 

 tip. Thorax ferruginous orange, with black dorsum and bluckisli- 

 grey underside ; a fringe of long yellow hair-like scales on 

 anterior margin ; a bunch of fiery orange-red bristly scale-like 

 hairs on shoulders, and shorter similar oues on the humeral calli ; 

 the dorsum clothed with moderately close, short orange hairs ; 

 several long fiery orange-red bristles, directed backwards on the 

 posterior calli ; underside nearly bare, a few blackish liairs here 

 and there. Scutellum orange-red, covered with short, similarly 

 coloured pubescence ; posterior margin with a horizontal row of 

 concolorous strong bristles. Abdomen sub-conical ; ground-colour 

 black, apparently with short, close, black pubescence. A bunch 

 of elongate orange-red scales at the shoulders of the 1st segment ; 

 sides of 2nd segment dull reddish ; venter black, unmarked ; 

 genital apparatus in one specimen, orange, subspherical, slightly 

 protruding, and apparently twisted to the left. Ler/s with coxie 

 and feujora dark brown : anterior tibiae bro\\nish yellow, hind 

 pair black : all the knees pale : tarsi black ; fore legs practically 

 hare, posterior ones minutely pubescent and with distinct black 

 bristles, which are stronger on the hind pair; posterior tarsi 

 closely pubescent, with black bristles on underside. Wings with 

 first pos<"erior cell closed some distance before the border ; rather 

 more than the proximal half bright orange-yellow, apical part and 

 a narrow border along the posterior margin almost to the base, 

 quite clear; an intermediate dark brown, ill-defiued cross-band, 

 commencing at the upper edge of the marginal cell opposite tip 



