CRIORRIIINA. 



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black hair, which on under sides becomes louger and bristly. All 

 the tibite with short stiff hlack hairs. Tarsi with short black 

 hair, mixed with some yellowish ones ; under side of hind tarsi 

 rich golden-brown. Wings brown ; anterior half and basal half 

 nuich darker ; centre of 1st and 2nd posterior cells very slightly 

 clearer. Halteres yellow. 



Length, 18 mm. without snout. 



Described from one 6 in the Indian Museum collection. The 

 species \\as described by me under the manuscript ijaine given it 

 by Bigot. It almost certainly comes from British India. 



218. Criorrhina imitator, Brun. (Text-lig. -'^4, p. 281.) 



Criorhina imitator, Biunetti, Kec. Ind. ]\Ius. xi, p. 230, pi. xiii, 

 Mg. 14, full insect (1915). 



S $ . Head. In 6 , eyes very approximate for a short space only 

 but by no means touching, vertical triangle black, with rather long 

 pubescence which mav be wholly brownish-yellow, or the pubes- 

 cence itself may be orange on its basal half with the remainder 

 black ; ocelli blackish. Fronto-antennal prominence moderately 

 large ; frons below rather deeply cut away, face prominent, rather 

 large, descending almost vertically to a length equrd to about the 

 height of the eyes. Erons and face covered with yellowisb-grey 

 toiwentum or dust, with a little pale yellow pubescence on former 

 and on upper sides of latter ; cheeks wholly shining black, bare, 

 as is also tip of epistome. Palpi nearly as long as proboscis, slender, 

 tips onlv slightly dilated, pale broun, nearly bare. Antennal 1st 

 and 2ud" joints black, as is extreme anterior tip of frons ; 3rd joint 

 short and deep, reddish-orange, a little white-dusted, front edge 

 blacldsh, arista black. Occiput moderately dusted with ligiit grey, 

 with long, rather shaggy pale or brownish-yellow pubescence. 

 In $ , frons and face diverging rapidly ; at vertex about J; width 

 of head, but much more than ^ width of head at level of eyes ; 

 all dusted with yelio\vi.sh-grey, distinctly more yellowish than in o' 

 and scantier on upper side of epistome. Thorax shining black, 

 greyish tinged anreriorly, where it is covered down to the suture 

 with dense yellowi.sh hair, whicli also occupies the hind' inargui 

 more narrowlv but with equal density; intermediate surface of 

 dorsum with dense black hair; pleurae with similar pubescence, 

 which is yellowish in J and black in ^ ; scutellum with very long, 

 dense, similar, yellowish pubescence. Abdomen: ground-colour 

 mainly black, more or less dark grey basally, its whole surtaco 

 with long, den.se pubescence varying considerably in colour with the 

 individual, the basal third a paler or deeper yellowish or reddish- 

 yellow, the remainder may be wholly black, or the middle third 

 black, with the apical third bright orange-red. In one d the whole 

 pubescence of the abdomen is yellowish, a little more reddish 

 apically. Normal form probably with yellowish basal put)escence, 

 and the remainder either all black or black on about middle third. 



