EXOPROSOPA. 211 



Valley, Satara District, Bombay Presidency, 2000 ft., 28-30. iv. 

 1912, and several others of both sexes from other localities in the 

 same neighbourhood, up to 3500 ft., and from the 23rd to the 

 30th ; Khemsa, Western GJ-hats, 2650 ft., 5. v. 1913. 



The amount of yellow hair on the abdomen and the extent of 

 the white scales are both variable. 



159. Exoprosopa basifascia, Walk. 



Anthrax basifascia, Walker, List Dipt. Brit. Mus. ii,p. 248 (1849). 



" Head tawny and clothed with tawny hairs ; mouth black ; 

 eyes piceous ; feelers black, ferruginous at the base ; chest piceous, 

 clothed with tawny hairs, which form a fringe along the fore 

 border and on each side ; scutcheon and breast ferruginous, the 

 latter clothed with tawny hairs ; abdomen dark piceous, with a 

 fringe of pale yellow hairs on the fore border of each segment 

 and more completely clothed on the underside ; legs black, thighs 

 piceous ; wings slightly grey, tawny at the base and on the fore 

 borders and along the margins of the veins; wing-ribs and veins 

 ferruginous, the latter piceous towards the tips ; poisers tawny. 



" Length of body 8 lines, of the wings 18 lines. ]N"orth Bengal/' 



Type in the British Museum ; unique. 



The following four species are probably from India, although 

 recorded by Walker merely from the " East Indies " : — 



160. Exoprosopa alexon, Walk. 



Anthrax alexon, Walker, List Dipt. Brit. Mus. ii, p 246 (1849). 



" Body ferruginous ; head and chest piceous ; head thickly 

 covered with ferruginous down ; eyes very dark red ; feelers 

 tawny ; chest clothed with tawny hairs ; breast with longer pale 

 yellow hairs ; scutcheon ferruginous ; back of the abdomen clothed 

 with tawny and white hairs, and along the hind borders of the 

 segment with piceous hairs and thereby banded; underside rather 

 paler and clothed with white hairs ; legs ferruginous; thighs and 

 shanks clothed with very short pale yellow hairs and beset with 

 black bristles; feet piceous, clothed beneath with short black 

 bristles ; wings brown, which colour passes into brownish grey 

 towards the hind border near the base, and the disks of some of 

 the areolets in the middle of the wing are also grey ; the brown 

 has likewise a very oblique branch, which becomes grey and 

 irregular as it approaches the hind border, which, like the tips of 

 the wings, is grey, with the following exceptions : a brown spot 

 on the 1st and sometimes another on the second of the longitu- 

 dinal veins where their upward curve approaches the fore border ; 

 two brown spots on the cross-veins near the tip, one of them 

 mostly on the brown part, from which it is distinguished by its 

 darker colour ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous ; poisers tawny. 



" Length 5 lines, expanse of the wings 13 lines. East Indies. 



" From Archdeacon Clerk's collection." 



Type in the British Museum. 



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