238 BOMBYLIIDJE. 



dull black scales ; a few long black bristles on hind margins 

 of at least last two segments ; sides of first four segments with 

 long shaggy bright yellow scaly pubescence ; venter black, basal 

 half covered with small depressed bright yellow scales and some- 

 what longer concolorous pubescence, and apparently two or more 

 narrow transverse rows of similar scales on apical half. Legs 

 black; coxae with long yellowish hairs and black bristles at tip, 

 directed backwards ; femora, at least on hinder side, with minute 

 pale yellowish adpressed scales and a few black bristles below ; 

 tibia? with some yellow scales on hinder side, rest of surface with 

 closely-impressed, very dark brown scales and the usual bristles ; 

 tarsi black. Wings dark brown, darker anteriorly ; centre of 

 both basal cells, discal cell, and 3rd and 4th posterior cells 

 narrowly pale ; a small elongate pale streak in marginal cell just 

 before bifurcation of praefurca, and another towards tip of that 

 cell; two similar streaks in 1st submarginal cell; halteres 

 yellowish. 



Length, 13 mm. 



Described from a unique specimen (sex uncertain) in the British 

 Museum from Trincomali Hot Wells, Ceylon, 15. x. 1891 

 ( Yerbury). 



184. Anthrax him alay anus, Brun. 



Anthrax himalayanus, Brunetti, Rec. Lid. Mus. ii, p. 222, figs. 1, 2 



(1909). 

 Anthrax maura, Brunetti, op. cit. ii, p. 451 (1909). 



S § . Head black : frons in S and $ full}'" or over one-third 

 width of the head at level of antennae, between one-third and one- 

 fourth this width at vertex in $ and about two-fifths in $ ; frons 

 and face with prominent long black pubescence and minute 

 elongate yellow scales, which latter are rather longer on face, where 

 there are also a few yellow hairs ■, antennae black, 3rd joint short 

 onion-shaped, with a long style ; proboscis black, withdrawn ; 

 occiput, black, with minute yellowish-white scales. Thorax black, 

 Avith rather long, fine, very dark brown hairs; the surface apparently 

 sparsely covered with minute depressed elongate yellow scales ; 

 anterior margin with a row or fringe of long brownish-yellow 

 scales ; side margins with long, pale yellow, almost scale-like 

 pubescence. Sides of thorax light grey, with elongate brownish- 

 yellow scales and concolorous pubescence on lower part ; an elon- 

 gate bunch of long black scales below shoulders and a fringe of 

 similar scales in the centre of the lower anterior margin, imme- 

 diately below bead, with elongate brownish-yellow scales on each 

 side. Scutellum black, with minute orange-yellow depressed 

 scales on dorsum and with fine black hairs ; a row of black 

 bristles on hind margin. Abdomen black ; 1st segment with 

 some long yellowish-grey scaly pubescence towards sides, which 

 stretches across the anterior margin also, posterior margin with a 



