228 BOMBYLIIDJ2. 



hoary, clothed with whitish hairs: abdomen grey, obconical, a 

 little shorter than the chest, beset with a few black bristles, 

 clothed on each side and at the base with dull pale yellow hairs ; 

 legs black, clothed with short black hairs and bristles; shanks 

 pitchy, thighs tinged with grey ; wings grey, rather long and 

 narrow, adorned Avith four brown spots which cloud the cross- 

 veins ; wing-ribs pitchy, veins black, pitchy at the base and along 

 the fore border; poisers pitchy, witlrtawny knobs. 



"Length of body 3| to 4| lines, of the wings 10-12 lines. 

 East India." (Walker.) 



Type in the British Museum. 



176. Argyramceba claripennis, Brun. 



Argyramaiba claripennis, Brunetti, Kec. Ind. Mus. iii, p. 218 (1909). 

 Argyramceba hottentotta, L., var. claripennis, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. 



Mus. ii, p. 452 (1909). 



cJ . Head : frous one-fourth width of head at vertex, broadening 

 at level of antennae to one-third, dark grey, with yellowish hairs,, 

 which on the face become greyish or nearly white ; ocellar triangle 

 inconspicuous. Antennae black, with the uppersides of the joints 

 greyish ; basal joints with rather thick hairs ; bisection of style 

 obvious, pencil of hairs small. Proboscis dark, withdrawn; 

 occiput dark grey, with thick yellowish -grey hairs in the middle. 

 Thorax blackish grey, with short yellow hairs, of which a bunch 

 of a paler colour is placed on each shoulder ; a long and a shorter 

 yellow spine in front of each wing, and five or six long yellow 

 bristles towards each posterior corner, also some yellow bristles- 

 towards posterior margin of dorsum. Scutellum dark grey, with 

 short yellow hair, and some yellow bristles on posterior margin. 

 Sides of thorax ash-grey, white-dusted, with a bunch of greyish- 

 white hairs below each shoulder and whitish hairs below this 

 again. Abdomen blackish, hardly shining; posterior margins of 

 segments with rather wide, light brown bands ; whole dorsal 

 surface apparently covered with short, soft, bright yellow hairs, 

 which become longest towards the sides on the posterior margin 

 of the anal segments, where the brown segmental margins are 

 also widened. Venter blackish grey, with minute elongated 

 whitish scales, and becoming reddish yellow towards tip ; there are 

 two long pendent bristles towards the posterior margin about the 

 middle of each ventral segment. Genitalia not conspicuous, 

 but withdrawn. Legs uniformly pale yellow, except the blackish 

 tips of the tarsi ; the coxae and femora rather thickly, the 

 tibiae slightly, covered with minute whitish woolly scales, the 

 tibiae bearing moderately short black bristles in addition, as do 

 also the hind femora near the tip ; there is a row of microscopic 

 bristles on the hinder side of the hind tibiae. Wings quite clear ; 

 submarginal cell brownish yellow ; appendiculation not obvious ; 

 2nd vein originating half-way between base of discal cell and 

 anterior cross-vein, its upper branch forming a very distinct 

 downward loop towards its end ; halteres yellow. 

 Length, 7 mm. 



