222 BOMBYLIIDJE. 



blackish grey, though covered with white scales and pale 

 pubescence. 



Length, 6 mm. 



Described from two specimens in good condition in the Indian 

 Museum from Puri, Orissa Coast, 24-28. i. 1918 (type) (Annan- 

 dale and Gravely) ; Allahabad, iii. 1916 (Hoivlett). Two other 

 specimens in bad condition in the British Museum are from 

 Trincomali, 24. ix. 1891 (Yerbury). 



The four examples in the Indian Museum from Allahabad differ 

 from the typical form by the sides of at least the 2nd and 3rd 

 abdominal segments being more or less yellowish ; and by all the 

 legs being yellow, except the black band at the base of the fore 

 femora and a broad apical or subapical one on the hind femora. 

 The specimens are also slightly larger. 



Two 5 5 in the Indian Museum differ from typical Intermedia 

 only in all the legs being orange, with at most the extreme tip of 

 the hind femora on the upper side with a very small black streak 

 and a few tiny black bristles. The wings are wholly clear, the 

 costal cell pale yellowish. In one specimen a faint basal suffusion, 

 extending only a short distance, is apparent. The 1st antennal 

 joint is as in true intermedia. 



170. Argyr amoeba bigoti, nona. nov. 



Argyramceba ajipendiculata, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Eut. Fr. Ixi, p. 347 

 (1892). 



" Antenna?, face, and frons black ; thorax black, with a little 

 grey pile and some black hairs, bright in front as well as on the 

 sides ; scutellum dark brown, with a little grey pile ; halteres 

 tawny, knobs yellowish white. Abdomen (denuded) black, some 

 black hairs at tip, also at sides ; legs reddish, except the femora, 

 which are black nearly to the tip. AVings hyaline, at base broadly 

 dark brown, this colour extending to two-thirds of the anal cell, 

 covering by a light extension the external transverse vein ; the 

 angles formed by the 3rd vein and the forking of the 4th 

 (Roridani)* with rather long appendices. 



" Pondicherry, 2 specimens." 



Type in the Bigot collection. 



The name appendiculata has been used twice before in this 

 genus, on both occasions by Macquart, firstly in 1849 for an 

 Algerian species described as a Lomatia, and secondly in 1855 for 

 a species from North China under the genus Anthrax. 



171. Argyramceba gestroi, Srun. (PI. Ill, fig. 12.) 



Argyramceba qestroi, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. vii, p. 470, 

 pi. xxxvii, fig. 7 (1912). 



d 1 . Head: froris immediately above antenna? one-third the 

 width of the head, diminishing to half that width at vertex, 

 * Meaning Rondani's terminology. 



