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Described from a single & in good condition, Darjiling, looo 



3000 ft., June, 1912. A very handsome species and totally 



unlike anything described from the East. 



TABANIDAE. 



All the specimens of this family are in bad condition through 

 immersion in spirit, three species being present, one, which though 

 I cannot identify it, appears to fall in Miss Ricardo's " group 

 IX," represented by a short series of examples in less inferior 

 condition than the remainder, 



BOMBYLIDAE. 

 Hyperalonia tantalus, F. 



Several from Darjiling, 1000—3000 ft. 



H. flaviventris, Dol. or oenomaus, Rond. 



One cf from Darjihng, 1000—3000 ft., July, 1912, is probably 

 one or other of these species. 



Argyramoeba distigma, W. 

 Three from Darjiling, 1000—3000 ft., and Singla. 



MYDASIDAE. 

 Mydas carmichaeli, mihi, sp. nov. 



cT 5 Darjiling District. Long, cf 25, $ 27 mm. 



Head black, frons slightly wider than one-third of the head, 

 slightly wrinkled, with a moderate amount of blackisii-brown 

 pubescence; a small tuft of greyish hairs on each side of the. 

 mouth opening. Proboscis rather less than the height of the head, 

 dark brown; palpi slender, black, reaching as far forward as a 

 vertical line drawn through the antennal prominence, which latter 

 is small and black. Antennae normal, black, bare, about as long 

 •as from the vertex to the tip of the proboscis. Occiput black, 

 shortly pubescent ; a little grey tomentum behind the eye border. 



Thorax wholly dull velvet black with very short sparse black 

 pubescence, which is a Httle longer below the wings. 



Abdomen shining black with a slight indigo-blue tinge, and 

 very short pubescence; in & subcylindrical, as long as head and 

 thorax together and barely as wide ; in 9 a little broader and 

 longer and much more bulky. The cf genitalia consist of a 

 hollow triangular piece, hairy above, with a deep keel, a pair of 

 dark reddish-brown, nearly bare, moderately long, narrow, finger- 

 like claspers (only one joint being visible, the organs being 

 somewhat withdrawn), and a curved ventral plate, with black 

 pubescence on its lower side. The 9 genitaha appear to consist 



