218 bombyliidjE. 



part for three-fourths of their length, the colour gradually 

 diminishing in intensity hindwards to the wing-margin, which is 

 dark grey ; halteres dark brown. 



Length, 15-16 mm. 



Described from four S <S and two $ $ in the Indian Museum ? 

 mostly in inferior condition, from Karachi, Calcutta, and Purneah 

 (Bengal); also seen from Kumaon, v. 1910 (Chatter jee) ; Pusa, 

 Bengal, 16. vi. 1909, 3. vii. 1906 ; Chapra, Bengal ; Surat, Bombay,. 

 14. hi. 1904 ; Assam, v. 1913 ; Konau Kuppara, 16-20. vi. 1913. 

 This is a very marked species, and cannot be confused with any 

 other in the family. 



Types in the Copenhagen and Vienna Museums. 



166. Argyramoeba distigma, Wied. (PI. Ill, fig. 10.) 



Anthrax distigma, Wiedemann, Auss. Zweifl. i, p. 309 (1828). 

 Spor/ostt/lum distigma, Coquillett, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi r 



p. 318(1898). 

 Argyramoeba distigma, de Meijere, Tijd. v. Ent. 1, p. 241 (1907) 



Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 449 (1909). 

 Anthrax argi/ropyga, Doleschall, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. xiv, p. 401 



(1857) and xvh," p. 93 (1858). 

 Anthrax tripunctata, Wulp, Tijd. v. Ent. xi, p. 109, pi. iv, fig. 1 



(1867) ; Osten-Sacken, Ann. Mus. Gen. xvi, p. 433 (1882). 



cJ 5 . Head : frons a little more than one-third the width of the 

 head above antennae, about three-fifths of this width at vertex, 

 blackish grey, with black pubescence, and over more than the lower 

 half the usual small grey scales ; face dark grey, with fine black 

 hairs at sides and bristly hairs around mouth-border, which latter 

 is yellowish white ; proboscis dark brown, with large dark brown 

 labella ; occiput blackish grey, with greyish-white scales near eye- 

 margins and a fringe of dark brown hair on hind border. Antennas- 

 black; 1st and 2nd joints very short, with black bristles ; 3rd short, 

 stumpy onion-shaped, the produced part very narrow at base,, 

 cylindrical ; the style distinct, rather long, with a conspicuous 

 pencil of hairs at tip. Thorax black ; dorsum wholly covered with 

 minute adpressed hairs like grey scales ; a rather thick collar on 

 anterior margin of elongate very narrow grey scales, behind which 

 are numerous rather long bristly black hairs ; a large patch of 

 similar elongate grey scales over the humeral region and in front 

 of the wing-base : hind margin of dorsum with a little longer grey 

 pubescence mixed with bristly black hairs, and a row of curved 

 black bristles near the edge ; black bristles of various sizes occur 

 along both side-margins of the dorsum, whilst the hind corners of 

 the thorax bear fine powerful black spines directed backwards ; 

 pleurae covered with short grey pubescence, with black bristly 

 hairs intermixed. Scutellum black, with minute adpressed grey 

 hair-like scales and a row of ten or more strong black bristles on 

 hind margin, besides numerous irregularly-placed black hairs. 

 Abdomen black ; 1st segment rather dark bluish grey, with fine 

 black pubescence, and at each anterior corner a large conspicuous- 



