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row of black bristles on biud margin. Abdomen black, with trans- 

 verse bands of small yellowish, yellowish-grey, or whitish scales, 

 broadest on 2nd and 4th segments, where, especially towards sides, 

 they reach up to and beyond middle of segment ; a narrow basal 

 band on 3rd segment and a narrow band on hind margins of 5th 

 and 6th ; a large bunch of elongate brownish-yellow scales towards 

 and on sides of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd segments ; dorsum of 1st with 

 sparse concolorous fine hairs. Sides of 3rd and 4th segments 

 with elongate brownish-yellow scaly pubescence, which is paler 

 on the latter; sides of 5th and 6th segments with numerous 

 elongate dark brown scales and long black bristles ; posterior part 

 of side of 6th segment with a conspicuous bunch of elongate 

 snow-white scales ; 7th segment with black scales only ; all the 

 dorsal surface of abdomen, not occupied by pale scales, covered 

 with minute impressed black scales ; sparse fine pale hairs on 

 about basal half of dorsal surface, replaced on posterior half by 

 black ones ; hind margins of segments with a row of black bristles. 

 Venter with a broad transverse band of yellowish scales beyond 

 middle ; remaining segments with white scales ; whole surface of 

 venter plentifully covered with long yellowish or yellowish-grey 

 hairs, with fine black hairs towards tip. Genitalia brownish 

 yellow, with a circlet of blunt reddish-brown spines and black 

 pubescence. Legs black, coxae with rather long grey or whitish 

 pubescence; femora and tibiae with small white or yellowish-grey 

 scales and rows of black bristles. Wings nearly clear, the brown 

 suffusion on anterior part in type-specimen limited to subcostal 

 cell ; in 2nd and 3rd specimens extending from costa up to but 

 not encroaching on discal cell, dying away towards tip ; anterior 

 cross-vein just before middle of discal cell ; halteres cream- 

 yellow. 



Described from three paratype § $ in the Indian Museum, 

 neither one being in sufficiently good condition to regard as the 

 ultimate type ; Simla, 7000-8000 ft., 26. v. 1914 (Capt Evans); 

 Mussoorie, 6500 ft. (Bond) : Guindy, Madras (Capt. Pattori). 



192. Anthrax hottentotta, L., var. claripennis, Brim. 



Anthrax hottentotta var. claripennis, Brunetti, Itec. Ind. Mus. ii, 

 p. 452 (1909). 



5 . Head : f rons half as wide at vertex as at level of antennas, 

 where it is one-third of the head, black, covered (at least on lower 

 part) with minute yellow impressed scales, and wholly covered 

 with stiff black pubescence ; face black, wholly covered with dense 

 elongate yellowish-white scales ; antennae black, 3rd joint con- 

 siderably elongate ; proboscis obscure, withdrawn ; occiput black, 

 apparently covered with minute scales, which are yellow behind 

 the vertex and white near the lower eye-margins. Thorax black, 

 dorsum (apparently) cuvei'ed with minute elongate yellow scale- 

 like depressed pubescence ; anterior margin, sides of dorsum, and 

 the shoulders with dense elongate upright brownish-yellow scales; 



