194 bombyliidjE. 



not well-defined black transverse band on 3rd segment, which is 

 repeated less distinctly on the following two or three segments. 

 The extreme posterior border of all the segments is reddish 

 brown, and the whole dorsum is covered lightly with short, 

 bright orange hairs, which become brightest, longest, and fiery red 

 at the abdominal tip ; a bunch of fiery-orange elongate scales at 

 sides of 1st segment. Venter cinereous, covered with short orange 

 hairs; posterior borders of all the segments orauge-yellow. 

 Legs with coxae, femora, and most of the tibiae reddish orange ; 

 the tibiae towards the tips (especially the hind pair) and all the 

 tarsi black ; the middle femora have a few black short spines 

 below, the hind pair a row of stronger ones ; the posterior tibiae 

 are beset with short black bristles (longer on the hind pair) and 

 have a circlet of strong black spines at the tip, and the whole 

 legs, especially the tibiae and tarsi, are minutely but densely 

 spinose. Wings clear ; first posterior cell closed at some distance 

 before the border, the 4th longitudinal vein joining the 3rd half- 

 way between fork of latter and the wing-border. Two broad 

 dark brown bands ; base of wing bright orange-yellow, the colour 

 extending across the wing from the costa to (and including) tho 

 alula, and reaching distally to just within the two basal cells ; the 

 costal cell orange-yellowish, also a spot on and over the discal 

 cross-vein, and another small spot in the centre of the upper 

 basal cell. The first brown band begins in the upper basal cell, 

 which it fills, extending posteriorly, filling the 2nd basal cell 

 and basal fourth of discal cell, thence narrowing to the hind 

 border of the wing, leaving about the distal fourth of both the 

 anal and axillary cells clear ; the second band begins approximately 

 on the costa, blending with the orange colour of the costal cell, 

 fills three-fourths of the 1st submarginal and 1st posterior cells, 

 thence narrowing somewhat, it fills nearly the distal half of the 

 discal cell and terminates distinctly clear of the posterior margin 

 of wing, entering the 2nd and 3rd posterior cells ; a small round 

 quite clear spot is in the extreme upper angle of the lower basal 

 cell. A few very short stiff black bristles at the base of the- 

 costa, and some short close yellowish-orange hairs on the margin 

 of the alulae and the orange tegulae ; halteres yellow. 



Length, 18 mm. 



Described from a single 5 (now headless) in the Indian Museum 

 collection, taken at Pusa, Bengal, 17. iv. 1907; other specimens 

 are from Pusa, 1. v. 1911, at light (Hoivlett) ; Pusa, 3. iv. 1914; 

 Trincomali, Ceylon, 25. vi. 1891 (Col. Yerbury). 



This species closely resembles JE. lar, P., in the shape of the 

 wing-markings. 



145. Exoprosopa lar, F. (PI. Ill, fig. 3.) 



Bibio lar, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. ii, p. 414 (1781). 

 Anthrax lar, Wiedemann, Auss. Zweifl. i, p. 268 (1828). 

 Anthrax collaris, Wiedemann. Auss. Zweifl. i, p. 271 (1828) 

 Walker, List Dipt. Brit. Mus. ii, p. 247, 2 (1849). 



