244 BOMBYLIID.^. 



6000 ft., 4.x. 1907, and a $ from Xaini Tal, 6300 ft., 11. v. 1911 

 {Kemp), both in rather inferior condition but with all the charac- 

 ters fairly obvious, and both in the Indian Museum, as are also 

 two others — one named by Bigot from Dehra Dun, the other 

 from the Garhwal Distr., 21. x. 1907. These two specimens have 

 been compared by Mr. P. W. Edwards with the types in the 

 British Museum, where the species also figures from Dehra Dun, 

 xi. Id^^i [Lt.-Col. Wi/viUe Thomson), and the Khasi Hills, Assam. 

 Type in the British Museum. 



189. Anthrax approximata, Urun. 



Anthrax approximccta, Bruiietti, Rec. Ind. Mus. xiii, p. 74 (1917). 



5 . This species is very close to A. clara, "Walk., yet certainly 

 distinct. The scales on the frons and face vary from yellow to 

 snow-white, in one specimen only being yellow on both parts, 

 in others yellow on frons and white on face, those of the latter 

 colour encroaching to some extent on lower part of frons ; in one 

 example snow-white on practically tlie whole of both frons and 

 face ; sometimes some yellow stales around the mouth-parts amidst 

 the white ones. Abdomen not uniformly pubescent, as is pro- 

 bably the case in clara, but with distinct transverse bands of 

 yellow or whitish scales at base of segments, those on the 2nd and 

 4th being widest, extending on the former segment nearly to the 

 middle, and on the latter much further, especially towards the 

 sides ; hind borders of 6th segment with conspicuous snow-white 

 scales and a large bunch of longer ones on about tlie hinder half 

 of each side; sides of 5th segment and anterior half or more of 

 6th with long very dark blackish-brown scales ; dorsum of abdo- 

 men, except for the transverse hands, with black scales, wholly 

 covered with soft fine pubescence, and with a row of black bristles 

 on hind borders of 5th, 6th, and 7tli segments, becoming stronger 

 on each successive segment ; a row of fine yellow hairs before the 

 hind border on first four segments and a few fine yellow hairs on 

 dorsum of basal segments. Costal cell clear or faintly obscured ; 

 subcostal cell dark brown, the colour not extending further hind- 

 wards ; anterior ci*oss-vein a little before middle of discal cell, 

 the exact position apparently rather variable. In all else as in 

 A. clara. 



Described from five S 6 in the Indian Museum : Simla, 7000- 

 8000 ft., 28. V. 1914, ty^e (Capt. Evans), and 16. v. 1909 ; Sihguri, 

 base of Darjiling Hills, 28. iii. 1910 ; Dawna Hills. Tenasserim, 

 2000-3000 ft., 2-3. iii. 1908; Kawkareik, Amherst Distr., Tenas- 

 serim, 5. iii. 1908,* and 23. iii. 1910 (Annandale). In the British 

 Museum from Khasi Hills, 1878 (GheimcU); Trincomali, Ceylon, 

 12. X. 1890, 12. xi. 1890 (CV. Yerbnry); Nilaveli, Ceylon, 

 19. vii. 1891 {Col. Yerhury). 



* Erroneously quoted as 5. ii. 1908 in Eec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 474. 



