DIPTEJIA. '-20 1 



clothed with bUick liairs: abdomen obconical, much lon2:er than tlie chest, 

 adorned on each side with tiifts of black hairs and near the lip with a tuft 

 of white hairs : legs black : wings whitish ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, 

 tawny towards the base; poisers black. Length of the body 4 lines ; of 

 the wings 8 lines. 



Group L.— C. D. B. M. 284. 



Characters of Group A. The little cross-vein somewhat beyond one- 

 third of the length of the discoidal areolet. 



BOMBYLIUS socius, Feui. 



Niger, fulvo-hirtus, capite suhtus albo-hirto, scutello rufo, abdominis late- 

 ribus apiceqtie nigro-setosis, pedibus fulvis, alis subcinereis basi 

 fulvis. 



Black, very thickly clothed with pale tawny hairs : head mostly 

 clothed above with black hairs, clothed beneath with white hairs : mnuth 

 rather shorter than the body : scutcheon red : sides and tip of the abdomen 

 beset with black bristles : legs tawny ; feet pitchy towards the tips : icings 

 pale gray, taicny at the base ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the 

 base and along the fore border ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4i — 5 

 lines; of the wings 1 1—12 lines. 



East Indies. 



Group M.— C. D. B. M. 28t;. 



Characters of Group A. Head very broad. The little cross-vein at 

 one-third of the length of the discoidalnircolet. 



BoMBYLIUS DISTINCTUS, Fcm. 



Aiger, falro-hirius, scutello thoracisque postici lateribus fulris, antcnnis 

 nigris basi piceis, pedibus fulvis, alls subcinereis ad costam fulvis. 



Black, thickly clothed with bright tawny hairs above and with yellowish 

 white hairs beneath: head nearly as broad as the chest : sucker rather thick 

 towards the tip, hardly half the length of the chest : first and second joints 

 ol the feelers pitchy, clothed with tawny hairs: scutcheon and sides of the 



