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small impressed scales, with the addition of black hairs on the 

 former : antennae all black ; apical end of proboscis brown ; 

 occiput (apparently) with minute yellow impressed scales and 

 very short concolorous pubescence ; a fringe of such pubescence 

 on bind margin of occiput. Thorax black, with small bright 

 chrome-yellow impressed scales on dorsum and with bright 

 concolorous long scaly pubescence on anterior and side margins 

 aud on pleura?, where it is a little paler below shoulders and 

 wings. Scutellum black (denuded), apparently with small yellow 

 scales as on thorax and a row of black bristles on hind margin. 

 Abdomen black, surface apparently covered with minute black 

 impressed scales, which are longest on the 2nd segment ; an upper 

 clothing of bright yellow small impressed scales ; sides of first 

 four segments with bunches of concolorous elongate scales ; sides 

 of oth and most of the sides of the 6th with elongate black scales, 

 hind part of sides of 6th with bright yellow elongate scales; 7th 

 segment with elongate black scales on hind margin. Venter 

 black, with minute black scales ; some fine yellow hairs at base 

 and small yellow scales on hind margins of most of the segments. 

 Legs black ; coxae with some fine yellow hairs ; femora and tibiae 

 with traces of small yellow scales (mostly denuded) and the usual 

 black bristles; middle femora with some pale fine hairs on inner 

 side. Wings wholly dark brown, the anterior part still darker; 

 anterior cross-vein distinctly before middle of discal cell ; anal 

 cell narrowly open ; halteres creamy yellow. 



Length, 12 mm. 



Described from a unique S from Mysore, 4400 ft., 25. iii.- 

 29. v., sent for examination by Mr. T. Baiubrigge Fletcher, and 

 presented by him to the British Museum. 



183. Anthrax guttatipeimis, sp. nov. 



Head : f rons at level of antenna? one-third width of the head, 

 diminishing to one-third as wide at vertex, black, covered 

 (apparently), as is the face also^ with bright chrome-yellow 

 elongate scaly pubescence, intermixed (at least on frons) with 

 long black hairs ; antennae black, 1st joint bristly, 3rd short 

 onion-shaped, with long style ; occiput black, with minute greyish- 

 white scales on eye-margins. Thorax black (denuded), with 

 bright chrome-yellow scaly pubescence forming a collar and 

 towards sides of dorsum, covering shoulders and extending over 

 pleura ; scutellum black, with minute bright yellow scales on 

 posterior margin and some concolorous bristles, with which are 

 mixed some long black ones. Abdomen black ; 1st segment with 

 a little ragged bright yellow bristly pubescence ; all segments 

 except 4th * with broad basal bands of depressed small bright 

 yellow scales, the bands narrowest at the centre of each segment ; 

 rest of dorsal surface apparently covered with depressed small 



* Possibly an individual aberration. 



