1917-] B. Brunetti : Dipiera of the Simla District. 75 



ing on the former segment nearly to the middle, and on the 

 latter much further, especially towards the sides. Hind borders 

 of 6th segment with conspicuous snow white scales and a large 

 bunch of longer ones on about the hinder half of each side. Sides 

 of 5th segment and anterior half or more of 6th with long very 

 dark blackish brown scales. Dorsum of abdomen, except for the 

 transverse bands, with black scales, wholly covered with soft fine 

 pubescence, and with a row of black bristles on hind border of 5th, 

 6th and 7th segments ; becoming stronger on each successive seg- 

 ment : a row of fine yellow hairs before the hind border on first 

 four segments and a few fine yellow hairs on dorsum of basal seg- 

 ments. Costal cell clear or faintly obscured, subcostal cell dark 

 brown, the colour not extending further hind ward : anterior cross 

 vein a little before middle of discal cell, the exact position ap- 

 parently rather variable. In all else as in clara. 



Described from five females in the Indian Museum. Simla, 

 7-8,000 ft , 28-V-14, type {Capt. Evans) ; Simla, 7,000 ft., 16-V-09; 

 Siliguri, base of Darjiling Hills, 28-iii-io ; Dawna Hills, Tenasserim, 

 2,000-3,000 ft., 2 — 3-iii-o8 ; Kawkareik, Amherst Distr., Tenas- 

 serim, 5-iii-o8 ' ; 23-iii-io (all N. Annandale). In the British 

 Museum from the Khasi Hills, 1878 (Chennell) ; Trincomalee, 

 Ce5don, 12-X-90 ; i2-xi-90 {Col. Yerhury) ; Nilaveli, Ceylon, 19-vii- 

 91 {Col. Yerhury). The two specimens alluded to by me in my 

 first paper on Bombylidae as allied to clara. Walk., are amongst 

 those now referred to approximata. 



Anthrax fuscolimbata, sp. nov. 



$ . Western Himalayas. Long. 15 mm. 



Head. Frons forming one-third the width of the head at 

 level of antennae, less than half as wide at vertex ; covered 

 with yellowish impressed scales and black pubescence, the scales 

 in the neighbourhood of the antennae sometimes becoming gradu- 

 ally whitish. On the face they are, in the three examples present, 

 wholly snow white in the type, and yellowish white and yellowish 

 respectively in the other two specimens. Antennae black, ist joint 

 with long black bristles, 2nd with a ring of shorter bristles, 3rd 

 elongate conical, tapering to a rather long style. Proboscis dull 

 yellowish or obscure. Occiput with a border of snow white 

 minute scaly pubescence behind eyes, some small yellow scales on 

 upper part. 



Thorax black, covered more or less with small impressed 

 yellow scales; anterior and side margins, shoulders and pleurae 

 covered with dense brownish yellow elongate scales which are paler 

 on the meso- and sternopleurae, or sometimes altogether paler. A 

 fine rather short sparse black pubescence present on dorsum, 

 sometimes remaining after nearly all the yellow scales have been 

 worn off. Scutellum black, with small yellow impressed scales. 



' Erroneously quoted as 5-ii-o8 in Rec. lud. Mks. II, p. 474. 



