BOMBYLIUS. 263 



7. Snow-white pile and hairs at tip of abdo- 



men ; 3rd antennal joint nearly double 



as long as 1st and 2nd together terminalis, Brim., p. 270. 



No white hairs on abdomen 8. 



8. Wings clear, brown at base, nearly up to 



anterior cross-vein fulvipes, Big., p. 271. 



Basal half of wing diagonally brown, the 



colour dying away gradually propinquus, Brim., p. 272, 



In comparisons between the length of the proboscis or abdomen 

 relatively to that of the thorax the scutellum is not included. 



205. Bombylius orientalis, Macq. 



Bombylius orientalis, Macquart, Dipt. Exot. ii, pt. 1, p. 90, pi. vi, 



fig. 2 (1840) ; Brunetti, Bee. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 456 (1909). 

 Bombylius tricolor, Guerin, Icon. Regne Anim. hi, p. 538, pi. xcv 

 (1829-1838). 



<S $ • Head : in J, vertex very small, black, with black hairs ; 

 frons and face black, former with long whitish or yellowish- 

 white hairs, similar hairs adorning each side of the face ; lower 

 part of head devoid of pubescence ; occiput with brownish-yellow 

 hairs. Antennae black ; 3rd joint twice as long as 1st and 2nd 

 together, tapering ; 1st joint with long grey hair above and below. 



Fig. 14. — Bombylius orientalis, Macq. 



Proboscis black, as long as from the frons to hind border of thorax ; 

 palpi brownish black. In $ , frons about one-third the width of 

 the head, slightly narrower above, with greyish pubescence ; in all 

 else as in the S • Thorax and scutellum closely covered with 

 rather short brownish-yellow pubescence. Abdomen black, with 

 thick yellowish-grey hairs towards sides and at base, and with the 

 tip covered with whitish hairs ; the remainder of the dorsum 

 covered with fiery -red or orange-red hairs ; the pubescence in the 



