BOMBYLIUS.] 271 



proboscis black, 3 mm. long ; back of head with short yellowish 

 hairs above and white hairs below. Thorax thickly clothed with 

 yellowish-grey hairs ; scutellum similar, the dark body-colour 

 being visible through the hairs on both thorax and scutellnm ; 

 sides of thoi'ax with similar hairs, which become whitish on the 

 underside. Abdomen with thick yellowish-grey hairs, which are 

 thinnest on the dorsum and thickest at the sides, becoming- 

 whitish towards the tip of the abdomen, the last two segments of 

 which are covered with brilliant snow-white silvery pile and some 

 whitish hairs ; venter with yellowish-grey hairs, white towards 

 tip. Legs pale yellow, the femora and tibiae showing a slight 

 whitish reflection in certain lights ; tips of all the tarsi black, the 

 hind tarsi mainly brownish ; a few soft hairs below the femora 

 and a row T of about six well-separated spines on underside of hind 

 pair ; tibiae with minute spines, which are longest on hind pair. 

 Wings clear, veins towards base yellowish ; discal transverse vein 

 placed at one-third of the discal cell ; first posterior cell closed 

 half-way between border and origin of fork of fourth longitudinal 

 vein ; halteres yellowish white. 



Length, 5 mm. 



Described from a S in the Pusa collection, captured by 

 Mr. E. W. Howlett at Allahabad, 3. iv. 1906 ; a second 6 from 

 Lahore, iii. 1908. 



So far as his brief description goes, my species agrees fairly 

 well with Bigot's albosparsus, but he distinctly says " legs and 

 halteres black," which makes it appear to be a different species. 



214. Bombylius fulvipes, Big. 



Bombylius fulvipes, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, Ixi, p. 362 (1892) ; 

 Brunetti, Rec. Tnd. Mus. ii, pp. 457, 478 (1909). 



2 . Bead : frons at the level of the antennae occupying one-third 

 the width of the head, narrowing at vertex to one-fourth, clothed 

 with short golden-yellow pubescence and some longer brownish- 

 yellow hairs ; underside of face with rather close golden-yellow 

 hairs of moderate length; mouth-border bright lemon-yellow, 

 with moderately long yellow hairs. Antennas black ; 1st joint 

 rather long, sub-cylindrical, widening gradually to the tip, with 

 some long yellow hairs on outer side ; 2nd joint sub-cylindrical, 

 barely half as long as the 1st, with short black hairs ; 3rd joint 

 twice as long as 1st, bare, partly flattened vertically, and "pinched" 

 just before the middle, terminating in a very short whitish blunt 

 style. Ocelli on a small prominence on the absolute vertex, equi- 

 distant : eyes black, bare, facets small, uniform; back of head 

 covered with rather long bright yellow hairs. Thorax covered 

 with rather long yellowish-grey hairs, extending entirely over the 

 sides and scutellum ; ground-colour of both dorsum and scutellum 

 black. Abdomen densely covered with pale yellowish-grey hairs, 

 which become whitish on the tip ; ground-colour blackish ; venter 

 with close, pale yellowish-grey hairs. Legs : coxae closely clothed 



