272 bombyliid.t:. 



with yellowish-gre}' hairs ; femora, tibiae, and base of tarsi pale 

 tawuy ; extreme base of femora and apical half of tarsi black ; 

 anterior femora with only a very little soft hair below, hind pair 

 with a row of six or seven moderately strong black spines below ; 

 all the tibia) irregularly beset with short black bristles, which 

 become spinose on the hind pair ; and all the tibiae have a circlet 

 of very short black spines at the tip. Wim/s hyaline ; upper 

 basal cell only a little, but distinctly longer than the lower one ; 

 costal cell aiid base of wing as far as the origin of the basal cells 

 tawny yellowish ; the colour then, gaining an admixture of 

 blackish, extends to three-fourths of the upper and the whole of 

 the lower basal cell, leaving the whole discal cell quite clear ; thence 

 extending to the posterior margin of the wing, filling the basal 

 halves of the anal and axillary cells and the whole of the alulce ; 

 the discal cross-vein is almost imperceptibl)'^ suffused. The first 

 posterior cell is closed just before the border. 



Lenr/tJi, 5-6 mm. 



Described from a perfect single specimen in the Pusa collection, 

 captured by Mr. F. M. Howlett at Allahabad, 19. x. 1905. Other 

 specimens from Belgaum, Bombay, 11. ii. 1912 (Fletcher) ; Lahore, 

 Talewaddi, 3-10. x. 1916, and Castle Eock, 11-26. x. 1916, both 

 N. Kanara Distr. (Kemj)). 



Though I cannot be absolutely sui-e of the identity, I think the 

 present specimens are almost certainly Bigot's species. 



215. Bombylius propinquiis, Brim. 



Bomhylius jiropinquus, Brunetti, Eec. Ind. Mus. iii, p. 226 (1909). 



S $ . This species closely resembles terminalis, mihi, but, 

 intermixed with the yellowish-brown soft hairs on the front part 

 of the head, are numerous long black bristly hairs ; there is no 

 snow-white pile around the antennae ; the lower part of the head 

 is brownish yellow (not white), and without white hairs, the base 

 of the proboscis is yellow-, and there is no snow-white pile at the 

 tip of the abdomen. The wings have a blackish-brown baso-costal 

 band, occupying nearly half the surface of the wing ; fst posterior 

 cell closed at some distance from the border. The proboscis is 

 4 mm. long ; the whole insect only 5 mm. 



Ttfj^e in my collection ; taken at Ilaragama, Ceylon, i. 1908. 



Three in the British Museinn from Trincomali, 24. ii. 1891, and 

 Mahagany, 8. ii. 1891 and 20. xii. 1891, Ceylon (Col. Yerhury). 



This species is also allied to fuJvlpcs, Big., but the different 

 marking of the wing at once separates them. Described originally 

 from a c? in my collection from Ceylon. I stated that the all- 

 black antennae separated it readily from vicinus ; but though this 

 is the case in the type, four males from Guindy, Madras, un- 

 doubtedly belonging to the same species, show that the antennae 

 are normally more or less pale on at least the underside of the 

 1st and 2nd joints, and vary from wholly pale to blackish on the 



