250 bombyliidjE. 



and long yellow hairs on basal corners, besides conspicuous black 

 pubescence. Venter black, white scales on 4th, 5th, and 6th 

 segments, less abundant on 7th ; hind margins of segments more 

 or less with a narrow band of yellow scales and hairs ; ovipositor 

 orange. 



Length, normally 12 mm., varying from 10 to 14 mm. 



Naiui Tal, 6000-7000 ft. (R. E. Lloyd). One specimen in the 

 Indian Museum from Simla, x. 1906 (Lefroy). 



The above description is an abbreviated one from Verrall, as the 

 only Indian specimen and the three European specimens before 

 me are in very indifferent condition, though there seems no doubt 

 as to the identity of the species. 



194. Anthrax dia, Wied. 



Anthrax dia, Wiedemann, Anal. Ent. p. 28 (1824) ; id., Auss. 

 Zweifl. i, p. 293 (1828). 



" S • Antennae black (3rd joint missing). Epistoma and frons 

 sparsely, the vertex a little more densely clothed with grey hairs. 

 Occiput blackish, grey-haired, margins of eyes white. Collar 

 grey; thorax with reddish-brown pile and grey hairs, mixed at 

 sides with whitish hairs. Scutellum blackish, with traces of 

 reddish-brown pile ; sides of thorax with whitish hairs. The 

 1st abdominal segment with reddish-brown pile on the hind 

 margin, with whitish hairs at sides ; 2nd reddish brown with 

 whitish band at base ; 3rd with a narrow band across the middle ; 

 4th with a very broad whitish band, so that only the reddish 

 brown hind border remains ; 5th and 6th whitish, only at the 

 base narrowly reddish brown ; 7th and 8th, on the contrary, only 

 whitish at sides ; venter blackish, with whitish hairs. Wings 

 quite clear ; brownish at extreme base and in the costal cell, the 

 colour extending a little below this cell ; halteres yellow. Legs 

 black, with yellowish pile. Length 5| lines. Tranquebar." 

 ( Weidemann.) 



Type in Westermann's collection. 



195. Anthrax baluchianus, sp. now 



3 5 . Head : frons in S from a quarter to one-fifth, in $ one- 

 third, as wide at vertex as at just above antennas, black, covered 

 with yellowish-grey depressed scales and erect long fine black 

 hairs ; ocelli dull reddish brown ; face clothed similarly to frons,. 

 but the scales longer and with yellow hairs instead of black ; 

 proboscis reddish brown; antenna? black, 1st joint with long 

 black bristles, 2nd with shorter ones, 3rd elongate onion-shaped, 

 with moderately long style, which becomes reddish brown towards 

 tip ; occiput covered exclusively with short depressed yellowish- 

 grey scales. Thorax blackish, dorsum covered with minute 

 yellowish-grey depressed scales ; a thick collar of long yellowish 

 scaly pubescence on anterior margin ; side margins and the whole 

 of the pleurae similarly clothed ; sides of dorsal margins with long 



