192 bombyliim;. 



reddish brown ; wing clear, costal and 

 subcostal cells pale yellowish grey; 

 venter with soft snow-white hairs in 



middle vitrea, Big., p. 210. 



Antennae black, ferruginous at base; 

 ft thorax with tawny hairs " ; scutellum 

 and thorax ferruginous ; dorsum of abdo- 

 men with fringe of pale yellow hairs on 

 fore border of each segment, and " more 

 completely clothed on the underside " ; 



wings a little greyish, slightly tawny at [p. 21 1. 



base and on fore border , basifascia, Walk., 



143. Exoprosopa fiavipermis, Brun. 



Exoprosopajlavipennis, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 465 (1909). 



$ . Head with frons and ocelli as in flammea ; frons orange, 

 with close short golden-orange hairs ; mouth-border yellow ; 

 proboscis brown, shorter than the head; eyes reddish brown, 

 bare, with small, uniform facets ; back of head reddish orange, 

 bare, considerably prominent, with a narrow fringe of very short 

 bright yellow hairs on the margin of the cavity behind. Antenna? 

 orange ; first two joints sub-cylindrical, wider at tip, with yellow 

 hairs ; 2nd shorter than 1st ; 3rd joint twice as long as first two 

 together, bare, the upper side quite straight, the underside rapidly 

 narrowing from base to tip, a very distinct cylindrical style at 

 tip. Thorax ferruginous orange, with black dorsum and blackish- 

 grey underside ; a fringe of long yellow hair-like scales on 

 anterior margin ; a bunch of fiery orange-red bristly scale-like 

 hairs on shoulders, and shorter similar ones on the humeral calli ; 

 the dorsum clothed with moderately close, short orange hairs ; 

 several long fiery orange-red bristles, directed backwards on the 

 posterior calli; underside nearly bare, a few blackish hairs here 

 and there. Scutellum orange-red, covered with short, similarly 

 coloured pubescence ; posterior margin with a horizontal row of 

 concolorous strong bristles. Abdomen sub-conical ; ground-colour 

 black, apparently with short, close, black pubescence. A bunch 

 of elongate orange-red scales at the shoulders of the 1st segment ; 

 sides of 2nd segment dull reddish ; venter black, unmarked ; 

 genital apparatus in one specimen, orange, subspherica), slightly 

 protruding, and apparently twisted to the left. Legs with coxa? 

 and femora dark brown ; anterior tibia? brownish yellow, hind 

 pair black ; all the knees pale : tarsi black ; fore legs practically 

 bare, posterior ones minutely pubescent and with distinct black 

 bristles, which are stronger on the hind pair; posterior tarsi 

 closely pubescent, with black bristles on underside. Wings with 

 first posterior cell closed some distance before the border ; rather 

 more than the proximal half bright orange-yellow, apical part and 

 a narrow border along the posterior margin almost to the base, 

 quite clear; an intermediate dark brown, ill-defined cross-band, 

 commencing at the upper edge of the marginal cell opposite tip 



