368 Records of tJic Indian Museum. [Vol,. IV, 



From Bombay. : ,M. Fontanier. Museum. Macq., Dipt. exot. 

 Suppl. iv, p. 322. 



A species with a comparatively short proboscis, about the 

 length of the whole insect, with a reddish yellow abdomen marked 

 with median black spots and white or yellowish segmentations on 

 the apical segments. Thorax blackish with two well-marked 

 stripes. Antennae and legs reddish yellow. Palpi with the second 

 joint shorter than the first (female). Length (without proboscis) 

 males 14 — 17 mm.^ females 13 — 18 mm. 



cf . Face black, protuberant, covered more or less with greyish 

 tomentum, cheeks black but densely covered with greyish yellow 

 tomentum and with yellow hairs. Palpi brown, the second joint 

 nearly as long as the first joint, slightly pointed, with short black 

 hairs, first joint with some longer yellow hairs at its base. Beard 

 pale yellowish or white. Antennae bright reddish yellow, the first 

 two joints dull yellowish grey, with some long yellow hairs, the 

 third joint bare. Forehead covered with yellowish grey tomentum 

 and with pale pubescence. Eyes not quite contiguous. Thorax 

 blackish brown with yellowish sides and two yellowish grey tomen- 

 tose narrow stripes, these and the whole dorsum with fairly thick 

 yellow pubescence, sides and breast with yellowish pubescence. 

 Scutellum blackish brown with a yellowish grey tomentose outer bor- 

 der and with yellow pubescence. Abdomen pale reddish yellow, the 

 first segment with a median black spot which extends anteriorly to 

 the sides, the second and third with broad transverse black marks, 

 the fourth with a narrower one, the last two almost wholly black, 

 with whitish grey or yellowish segmentations, on the second and 

 third these are slightly indicated on the centre, all segmentations 

 with yellow hairs, which are white on the last two or three, some 

 scanty black pubescence appears even on the yellow parts and also 

 on the black parts ; under side paler, only blackish at extreme apex, 

 segmentations with white hairs. Legs light reddish yellow, coxae 

 black, posterior tibiae and all tarsi at apex brownish, pubescence 

 on femora yellowish, elsewhere chiefly black. Wings hyaUne, fore 

 border pale yellowish, veins brown, first posterior cell open. 



2 . Palpi brown, the first joint long, narrow, about one and a 

 half times as long as the second joint, which is slightly incrassate 

 and awl-shaped. Forehead almost twice as broad anteriorly as it 

 is at vertex, covered with yellowish grey tomentum and with two 

 distinct brown stripes which start from vertex and reach more 

 than half-way towards .antennae, pubescence anteriorly black, 

 posteriorly yellow. 



The species is at once distinguished from C. longirosiris , 

 Hardw., by the shorter proboscis which is rarely longer than the 

 body. 



Pangonia amboinensis, Fabr. 



vSyst. Antl., p. 91 (1805) ; Latr., Bncy clop. Method., viii, p. 704 

 (1811); Wied., Dipt, exot., i, p. 53 (1821), et Auss. zweifl. Ins., i, 

 p. 92 (1828) ; Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), p. 167 (1900). 



