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and hind shanks black ; wings whitish, yellow at the base and 

 along the fore border ; disks of the areolets very pale grey ; an 

 irregular very oblique grey band extending from three-fourths of 

 the fore border to one-sixth ot: the hind border, on approaching 

 which it becomes very indistinct ; wing-ribs tawny; veins black, 

 tawny towards the base and along the fore border ; poisers pale 

 yellow. Length of the body 9 lines, of the wings 16 lines. East 

 Indies." 



Genus SPOGOSTYLUM, Macq. 



Spogostylum, Macquart, Dipt. Exot, ii, 1, p. 63 (1840). 

 Spongostyhmi, Kertesz, Oat. Dipt, v, p. 58 (1909). 



Genotype, Spogostylum mystaceum, Macq. 



2 . Generic characters of Anthrax. Face not prominent, with 

 rather short hairs: irons tomentose ; 3rd antennal joint short, 

 tip rounded, style of two distinct segments, cylindrical ; 1st joint 

 as long as 3rd, 2nd rather shorter, with a few hairs at tip. 

 Wings three times as long as abdomen ; three submarginal cells, 

 1st and 2nd cells with an appendix. 



Mange. North Africa, Asia Minor, India, Chile. 



Macquart specially notes the " moustache " covering the face, 

 the antennal style, the shortness of the abdomen, and the length 

 of the wings. The genus is allied to Exoprosopa by the three 

 submarginal ceils and to Argyramceba by the antennal style, the 

 shortened abdomen, and the long wing. 



164. Spogostylum austeni, sp. nov. 



*? $ . Head : in profile, frons and face only slightly projecting ; 

 former at level of antenna? rather less than one-third the width of 

 the head, diminishing to two-thirds of that width at vertex ; black 

 (or blackish grey ?), covered with depressed small brownish-yellow 

 scales and rather dense stiff black hair; face blackish, with dense, 

 very elongate yellowish-grey scales and long bristly pubescence 

 intermixed; mouth-opening large, proboscis short, labella large; 

 antennae black, 3rd joint short, onion-shaped, style black ; occiput 

 yellowish, upper and side eye-margins with a broad fringe of 

 minute yellowish-grey scales. Thorax blackish, dorsum (appar- 

 ently) covered with minute depressed brownish-yellow hair-like 

 scales ; anterior margin with a rather thin collar of very narrow 

 and elongate milk-white scales ; humeri with black bristles, and 

 behind these a number of strong black well-curved bristles and 

 spines nearly reaching to the wing-roots ; further strong bristles 

 occur along margin of thorax from wing-roots to hind corners ; * 

 a number of bristles curving hindwards along posterior margin of 

 dorsum ; pleurae with grey pubescence intermixed with black 

 bristles. Scutellurn with brownish-yellow minute depressed 



* There are probably in perfect specimens some very strong spines on the 

 posterior calli, and the scars of these are visible in the present example. 



