268 BOMBYLIIDiE. 



black, 1st joint about 2£ times length of 2nd, with some fine 

 yellowish-white bairs, 2nd with very few short black bristles, 3rd 

 more than double length of 1st and 2nd together ; underside of 

 head with soft snow-white hairs ; occiput with long snow-white 

 scales. In 5 , frons forming one-third of head at level of antennae, 

 barely narrower at vertex ; covered, as face is also, with long- 

 snow-white scales, intermixed with long white or yellowish-white 

 bristly hairs. Thorax black ; a pair of faint bluish well-separated 

 narrow stripes visible on the denuded surface ; dorsum covered 

 towards all sides with narrow flat-lying hair-like scales, and a 

 further clothing of long scale-like bristly snow-white pubescence ; 

 probably in perfect specimens the whole dorsum thus covered, 

 possibly less densely in middle ; a large fan-shaped bunch of 

 bristly white hairs behind and below wing-base. Scutellum large, 

 snbtriangular, apparently clothed like thorax. Abdomen black, 

 with microscopic flat-lying black scales and a row of dark brown 

 bristly hairs on hind margins of 2nd and 3rd segments, intermixed 

 on 3rd segment with long yellow bristles ; 4th and 5th segments 

 with yellow bristles on bind margins ; from the 2nd segment 

 onwards a large patch of small snow-white scales at the base 

 towards each side, and from at least the 3rd segment onward a 

 similar patch in the middle of each segment's hind margin ; at 

 sides of 2nd segment (behind the white scale-spot) and extending 

 over the whole side of the 3rd segment (beyond the white scale- 

 spot) a bunch of long dark brown bristly, almost scale-like, 

 pubescence ; black hairs surrouud the tip of the abdomen. Legs 

 black ; coxa? with long whitish bristly hairs in front ; femora 

 more or less clothed with white scales, tibia? with traces of them 

 Wings clear ; costal cell yellowish, whole base of wing as far as 

 humeral cross-vein dark brown ; some white scales at base of 

 costa in addition to the usual patch of dark brown ones ; thoracic 

 squama? dark brown, with a long fringe of snow-white bristly 

 pubescence ; alar squama and adjoining hind margin of wing for 

 a short distance with small pale brownish or yellow scales ; 

 halteres black. 



Length, 6-7 mm. 



Eedeseribed from one S find two $ $ in the Indian Museum 

 from Chatrapur, and Balighai, near Puri, 16-20. viii. 1911. 

 Specimens seen from Bellary, 31. viii. 1912, and Coimbatore, 

 8. India, 1. vii. & 7. viii. 1912 (Metcher). 



Type in Fabricius's collection. 



210. Bombylius comastes, Brun. 



Bombylius comastes, Brimetti, Itec. Ind. Mus. iii, p. 225 (1909). 



S- Head with eyes contiguous for a short distance (about 

 10 facets) ; vertex blackish grey, with erect long stiff black hairs, 

 ocelli shining brownish yellow ; frons densely covered with long 

 black bristles, a small patch of elongate snow-white scales on each 

 side contiguous to upper eye-margin ; face with long black bristles 



