252 bombtliid^e. 



Scutellum concolorous with dorsum, with minute yellow depressed 

 scales and some longer pubescence and a row of yellow bristles on 

 hind border. Abdomen dark grey or blackish, wholly covered with 

 minute yellow depressed elongate scale-like pubescence ; a large 

 fan-shaped bunch of nearly white long scaly pubescence towards 

 sides of 1st segment, extending inwards across the disc ; sides of 

 rest of segments with soft whitish outstanding hairs; ground- 

 colour of sides of first five segments more or less orange or 

 brownish yellow, the colour sometimes entirely absent. Venter 

 varying from pale yellowish to dark grey, with darker marks, 

 some depressed minute white scales and some longer whitish 

 hairs ; genitalia large, brownish yellow, with long pale hairs. 

 Legs yellowish ; coxa? more or less bluish grey, with a little 

 whitish pubescence ; in the <5 the basal half of the anterior 

 femora and nearly all the hind femora black, with minute whitish 

 scales ; in the $ basal half of fore pair narrowly at base in 

 middle pair, and apical half or less of hind femora black, with 

 minute whitish scales ; apical third or half of tarsi in both sexes 

 blackish. Wings clear, subcostal cell yellowish ; 2nd longitudinal 

 vein normally with a distinct upward curve, followed by a distinct 

 downward one just before tip ; anterior cross-vein at one-third 

 (or a little beyond) of discal cell, placed some distance beyond tip 

 of praefurca ; anal cell rather narrowly open. 



Venation rather variable: in one specimen from Allahabad the 

 anal cell is very broad, and equally so for the whole of its length 

 to the wing-border ; in others the degree of curvature on apical 

 half of 2nd vein varies considerably, as does also the exact 

 position of the anterior cross-vein in its relation to the discal 

 cell. 



Length, 4g-6j mm. 



Described from several specimens of both sexes in the Indian 

 Museum and Pusa collections. 



Type in the British Museum (the head missing). 



197. Anthrax aureohirta, Brun. 



Anthrax aureohirta, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. iii, p. 223 (1909). 



$ . Head: frons at vertex one-eighth width of head, widening 

 to barely double this width at the level of the antennae, black, 

 slightly shining ; ocelli on small raised tubercle ; face black ; some 

 white dust on each margin of the lower pai't of frons and of the 

 face, and yellow and black short hairs intermixed above and below 

 the antennae, which are wholly black, the first two joints bearing 

 some stiff black hairs, the third with soft white microscopic 

 pubescence ; proboscis somewhat large, blackish at base, brownish 

 towards tip, with some hairs ; eye-margins rather deeply cut 

 away at the middle of the side; occiput considerably puffed out, 

 black, with golden-yellow hairs at the sides and a fringe of stiff 

 bright yellow hairs at the back, and with microscopic black hairs 

 on the remaining portions. Thorax black, with short, not thick, 



