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the frons along the eye-margins, clothed with stiff black liairs and 

 small yellow scales and some short bright yellow hairs around 

 the yellowish mouth-opening; proboscis black; antennae black; 

 occiput black, with small yellow scales, at least near eye-margins, 

 probably extending much farther hindwards also, with a fringe of 

 yellow hairs on the hinder margin. Thorax dark olive-brown, 

 nearly black ; anterior margin with thickly placed, long orange- 

 yellow scales ; a bunch of reddish-orange scales below the 

 shoulders, and also apparently in the same places as they occur 

 in H.flaviventris: short yellow hairs above the wings and on hind 

 margin of dorsum ; posterior calli reddish brown ; scutellum red- 

 brown, base more or less black, hind margin with short yellow 

 hairs; macrocha?ta? of thorax and scutellum as in H.flaviventris. 

 Abdomen black, with a slight violet tinge ; a bunch of elongate 

 orange scales at sides of 1st segment and traces of a few silvery- 

 white scales on 6th towards the sides ; venter black, with some 

 scale-like yellow hairs and much longer fine yellow hairs, forming 

 together a median stripe; genitalia very dark brown, shining, 

 knob-like, with a row of spines at tip. Legs dark yellowish 

 brown ; femora and tibia? with small bristles, strongest on hind 

 tibia? ; femora witli closely applied small concolorous scales. 

 Wings rather dark brown ; outer fourth of marginal cell and the 

 three outer submarginal cells wholly or nearly wholly pale grey; 

 alula? and alar squama? with a fringe of dark brown scales ; 

 halteres blackish brown, tips of knobs paler. 



Length, 11-12^ mm. 



Redesmbed from one S in the Indian Museum from Tenmalai, 

 Travancore, 22. xi. 190S (Annandale). 



135. Hyperalonia tantalus, F. 



Anthrax tantalus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iv, p. 260 (1794) ; Wiede- 

 mann, Auss. Zweifi. i, p. 255 (1828); Macquart, Hist, Nat. Dipt, 

 i, p. 401 (1834). 



Exoprosopa tantalus, Macquart, Dipt. Exot. ii, 1, p. 37 (1840) ; 

 Kert<5sz, Kat. Pala?arc. Dipt, ii, p. 169 ; de Meijere, Tijd. v. Ent. 

 1, p. 239 (1907). 



Hyperalonia tantalus, Rondani, Ann. Mus. Genova, vii, p. 453 

 (1875) ; Brunetti, Eec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 438 (1909). 



Anthrax cceruleopennis, Doleschall, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. xiv, p. 400, 

 pi. ix, fig. 2 (1857). 



S $ • Head with frons barely one-third the width of the head 

 above antenna?, narrowing to two-thirds of this width at vertex ; 

 black, with black liairs on upper part, and with black hairs mixed 

 with yellow scale-like hairs on lower part ; face reddish brown, 

 with a blackish median longitudinal stripe, irregular in extent; 

 mouth- border varying from reddish brown to yellowish white ; 

 proboscis and palpi black, concealed; antenna? wholly black; 

 occiput black, with small yellow depressed hairs. Thorax black, 

 with black pubescence, bearing bright orange or yellowish-orange 

 scaly hairs on anterior margin and in bunches and patches as in 



