268 IJOMBTLIIU.E. 



black, 1st joint about 2^ times leugtli of 2nd, with some fine 

 yellowish-white hairs, 2ud with very tew short black bristles, 3rd 

 more than double length oi: 1st and 2ud together ; underside of 

 head with soft snow-white hairs ; occiput with lone: snow-white 

 scales. In $ , frous forming one-third of head at level of antennae, 

 barely narrower at vertex. ; covered, as face is also, with long 

 snow-white scales, intermixed with long wliite or yellowish-white 

 bristly hairs. Thorax black ; a pair of faint bluish well-separated 

 narrow stripes visible on the denuded surface ; dorsum covered 

 towards all sides with narrow fiat-lying iiair-like scales, and a 

 further clothing of long scale-like bristly snow-white pubescence ; 

 probably in perfect specimens the whole dorsum thus covered, 

 possibly less densely in middle ; a large fan-shaped bunch of 

 bristly white hairs behind and belo^- wing-base. Scutelhim large, 

 subtriangular, apparently clothed like thorax. Abdomen black, 

 with microscopic flat-lying black scales ancl a row of dark brown 

 bristly hairs on hind margins of 2ik1 and 3rd segments, intermixed 

 on 3rd segment with long yellow bristles ; 4th and 5rh segments 

 with yellow bristles on hind margins ; from the 2nd segment 

 onwards a large patch of small snow-white scales at the base 

 towards each side, and from at least the 3rd segment onward a 

 similar patch in the middle of each segment's hind margin ; at 

 sides of 2nd segment (Jtehind the white scale-spot) and extending 

 over the whole side of the 3rd segment (beyond the white scale- 

 spot) a bunch of long dark brown bristly, almost scale-like, 

 pubescence ; black hairs surround the tip of the abdomen. Legs 

 black ; coxa3 with long whitish bristly hairs in front ; femora 

 more or less clothed with white scales, tibije with traces of them 

 Wings clear ; costal cell yellowish, whole base of wing as far as 

 humeral cross-vein dark brown ; some white scales at base of 

 costa in addition to the usual patch of dark brown ones ; thoracic 

 squamae dark brown, with a long fringe of snow-white bristly 

 pubescence ; alar squama and adjoining hind margin of wing for 

 a short distance with small pale brownish or yellow scales ; 

 lialteres black. 



Length, 6-7 mm. 



Kedescribed from one J and two $ $ in the Indian Museum 

 from Cliatrapur, and Balighai, near Puri, 16-20. viii. 1911. 

 Specimens seen from Bellarv, 31. viii. 1912, and Coimbatore, 

 8. India, l.vii. & 7. viii. 1912 (Fletcher). 



Type in Fabricius's collection. 



210. Bombylius comastes, Bnin. 



Bombylius comastes, Brimetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. iii, p. 225 (1909). 



S . Head with eyes contiguous for a short distance (about 

 10 facets); vertex blackish grey, with erect long stiff black hairs, 

 ocelli shining brownish yellow ; frous densely covered with long 

 black bristles, a small patch of elongate snow-white scales on each 

 side contiguous to upper eye-margin ; face with long black bristles 



