188 BOMBYLIIDiE. 



(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. J.) 



Hypercdonia suffusipennis, Brunetti, Bee. 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 or frons ; lower part of frons and the face with yellow 

 pubescence ; mouth-opening with pale yellow hairs ; proboscis 

 blackish brown ; palpi long, thin, yellow ; antennas 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 

 ealli ; scutelluin 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, 

 coxa? 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 ; alula? and 

 alar squama? with a thick fringe of 3 r ellow scales. 



Length, 15 mm. 



Described from two $ $ m Rood condition, in the Indian 

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

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

 Dehra Dun, v. 1914 (Chatterjee) • and a darker variety from 

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



A very distinct species. 



142. Hyperalonia semifuscata, Brun. (PL III, fig. 2.) 



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

 (1912). 



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

 width of head at level of antenna?, 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-} r ellow, with yellow hairs ; proboscis dark brown ; antenna? 

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



* The 2nd and 3rd joints of the antennas have since turned blackish. 



