472 E. Brunetti : Oriental Bombylidce. [Voi,. II, 



Dorsum nearly bare, some microscopic black hairs on the black 

 part. Genitalia rounded, inconspicuous, rather large, tawny, mainl}' 

 withdrawn within the body. 



Legs. — Uniformly tawny yellow, with minute bristles and 

 hairs ; coxse ash-grey, with whitish hairs ; tarsi dark brown. 



Wings. — Grey, costal cell yellowish, mediastinal cell black- 

 ish for its whole length. Second longitudinal vein with rather a 

 deep loop towards its tip : fork of the third vein with a distinct 

 appendix, the vein parallel to the second. A small greyish black 

 mark in the upper corner of the lower basal cell, and a similar one 

 on the strong vein just above it. Halteres yellowish, knobs yellow- 

 ish white, with a black mark above. 



Described from three specimens taken by Mr. Green at Kandy, 

 Ceylon, in October and November 1907, all in fairl}^ good condi- 

 tion ; also from three in the Pusa collection taken from 3-vii-07 

 to 24-viii-07 at Pusa. Type in my collection. It bears some 

 resemblance to Doleschall's " Anthrax " angustata from Amboina, 

 but is twice the size of that species, which, by the way, does not 

 seem to have been seen since its author first met with it. 



Argyramoeba niveisquamis, mihi, sp. nov. 



$ . Baluchistan. L^ong. 7-8 mm. 



Head. — Frons widening gradually from one-fifth the width of 

 the head on the moderatel^^ wide vertex (where the ocelli are very 

 close together on a very reduced tubercle), to fully one- third the 

 width at the level of the antennse. Frons and face densely covered 

 with long drooping snow-white scales ; a few longer, thin black 

 hairs intermixed, also (more numerously) white bristles, which 

 are longer than the scales. Oral orifice oblong, white ; proboscis 

 (in one specimen, the other is headless) wholly withdrawn. Anten- 

 nse black, second joint very short, third blackish grey, onion- 

 shaped, tip drawn out into a blunt definite style. (There is no 

 trace of the usual pencil of hairs, but the antennse, of which only 

 one remains, may be incomplete.) Back of head and under side 

 dark grey, thickly coloured with snow-white scales. 



Thorax. — Black, almost wholly covered with snow-white bristly 

 hair, which is longest in front, below ; in front of the wings and 

 below them. This hair becomes scaly in places and on the posterior 

 border of the scutellum is a moderately thick band of white scales. 



Abdomen. — Black, the segments covered thickly with short 

 creamy white and snow-white scales. A fan-shaped bunch of 

 snow-white, comparatively softer, long hair on the anterior corners. 

 A few long scattered black bristles on the dorsum, and, rather 

 more numerously, along the sides of the abdomen. Belly with 

 scaly and bristly hairs mixed, tip of abdomen with a few rather 

 long brownish yellow bristly hairs with some longer fine black 

 hairs below. 



Legs. — P'emora dark brown with closely set small snow-white 

 scales ; posterior femora with black isolated strong bristles ; tibiae 



