138 BOMBYLIIDJE. 



(Gravely}-, Trivandrum, 13. xi. 1908 (Annandale) ; Coimbatore, 

 S.India, 29. vii. 1912; Colombo, 1. vii. 1904 (Brunetti), vi. 1894 

 (E. E. Green) \ Trincomali, 17. vii. 1890 (Col. Yerbury). 

 Types in Fabricius's and Wiedemann's collections. 



141. Hyperalonia suffusipennis, Brun. (PL III, fig. 1 .) 

 Hyperalonia suffusipennis, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 462 



(1909). 



Head with vertex dark grey to blackish ; frons orange, paling 

 gradually to the yellow face, or face also all orange, both with 

 elongate chrome-yellow scales, with black hairs intermixed on 

 upper part of frons ; lower part of frons and the face with yellow 

 pubescence ; mouth-opening with pale yellow hairs ; proboscis 

 blackish brown ; palpi long, thin, yellow ; antennae orange-red, 

 1st and 2nd joints with bristly yellow hairs on each side and some 

 short black bristles above ; 3rd joint black. Thorax black, with 

 rather thick short yellowish depressed hairs on dorsum, and thick- 

 long bristly whitish hairs below the wings ; elongate yellowish 

 scales thickly on anterior margin, below shoulders, and on posterior 

 calli ; scutellum tawny brown, with short thick yellow hairs and 

 a row of stiff long black spines on posterior border. Abdomen 

 blackish, dark reddish towards the sides of the 2nd and 3rd 

 segments ; dorsum covered with moderately thick yellowish scale- 

 like hairs, intermixed with black pubescence ; a large fan-like 

 bunch of elongate dirty yellowish scales at sides of 1st and 2nd 

 segments ; venter with whitish hairs. Legs brownish tawny, 

 coxae with whitish hairs, tarsi nearly black. Wings pale grey, 

 darker and more yellowish on anterior margin and at base ; a 

 slight but distinct suffusion at nearly all the junctures of the 

 veins and cross-veins; halteres pale yellowish white; alulae and 

 alar squarn with a thick fringe of yellow scales. 



Length, 15 mm. 



Described from two $ $ in good condition, in the Indian 

 Museum, from the Purneah District, India, and one from 

 Jaulasal, Nairn Tal Distr., 11. iv. 1910; a fourth specimen from 

 Dehra Dun, v. 1914 ( Chatto-jee) and a darker variety from 

 Coorg, S. India, 1. xi. 1915 (Hannyngton). 



A very distinct species. 



142. Hyperalonia semifuscata, Brim. (PI. Ill, fig. 2.) 



Hyperalonia semifuscata, Brunetti, Eec. Ind. Mus. vii, p. 266 

 (1912). 



$ . Head much developed behind eyes ; frons one-third of 

 width of head at level of antennae, narrowing at vertex to half 

 this width, blackish, with yellowish scales and long black hairs; 

 face with brighter and thicker yellow hairs ; mouth-border broadly 

 orange-yellow, with yellow hairs ; proboscis dark brown ; antenna? 

 reddish brown,* 3rd joint very elongate-conical, with a distinct 

 * The 2nd and 3rd joints of the antennae haTe since turned blackish. 



