BOMBTLIUS.] 271 



proboscis black, 3 mm. long; back of head with short yellowish 

 hairs above and white hairs below. Thorax thickly clothed with 

 yellowish-grey hairs ; scutelluni similar, the dark body-colour 

 being visible through the hairs on both thorax and scutellum ; 

 sides of thorax with similar hairs, which become whitish on the 

 underside. Abdomen with thick yellowish-grey hairs, which are 

 thinnest on the dorsum and thickest at the sides, becoming 

 whitish towards the tip of the abdomen, the last two segments of 

 which are covered with brilliant snow-white silvery pile and some 

 whitish hairs ; venter with yellowish-grey hairs, white towards 

 tip. Leys pale yellow 7 , the femora and tibiae showing a slight 

 whitish reflection in certain lights ; tips of all the tarsi black, the 

 hind tarsi mainly brownish ; a few soft hairs below the femora 

 and a row of about six well -separated spines on underside of hind 

 pair; tibiae with minute spines, which are longest on hind pair. 

 Winys clear, veins towards base yellowish ; discal transverse vein 

 placed at one-third of the discal cell ; first posterior cell closed 

 half-way between border and origin of fork of fourth longitudinal 

 vein ; halteres yellowish white. 



Length, 5 mm. 



Described from a 3 in the Pusa collection, captured by 

 Mr. F. W. Hewlett at Allahabad, 3. iv. 1906 ; a second <J from 

 Lahore, iii. 1908. 



So far as his brief description goes, my species agrees fairly 

 well with Bigot's albosparsus, but he distinctly says " legs and 

 halteres black," which makes it appear to be a different species. 



214. Bombylius fulvipes, Big. 



Sombyliusfulvipes, Bigot, Ann. Sue. Ent. France. Ixi, p. 362 (1892) ; 

 Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ii, pp. 457, 478 (1909). 



$ . Bead : frons at the level of the antennas occupying one-third 

 the width of the head, narrowing at vertex to one-fourth, clothed 

 with short golden-yellow pubescence and some longer brownish- 

 yellow hairs ; underside of face with rather close golden-yellow 

 hairs of moderate length; month-border bright lemon-yellow, 

 with moderately long yellow hairs. Antennae black ; 1st joint 

 rather long, sub-cylindrical, widening gradually to the tip, with 

 some long yellow hairs on outer side ; 2nd joint sub-cylindrical, 

 barely half as long as the 1st, with short black hairs ; 3rd joint 

 twice as long as 1st, bare, partly flattened vertically, and "pinched'' 

 just before the middle, terminating in a very short whitish blunt 

 style. Ocelli on a small prominence on the absolute vertex, equi- 

 distant ; eyes black, bare, facets small, uniform: back of head 

 covered with rather long bright yellow hairs. Thorax covered 

 with rather long yellowish-grey hairs, extending entirely over the 

 sides and scutellum ; ground-colour of both dorsum and scutellum 

 black. Abdomen densely covered with pale yellowish-grey hairs, 

 which become whitish on the tip ; ground-colour blackish ; venter 

 with close, pale yellowish-grey hairs. Legs : coxa? closely clothed 



