476 K. Brunktti : Oriental Bomhylidt^. [Voi,. II, 



Legs. — Black, femora with some soft long hairs ; tibiae with 

 some apparently irregularly placed, short black bristles; tarsi, 

 minutely pubescent. Hind tibiae with a number of elongated 

 brown scales intermixed with the black bristly spines, which are 

 longest on this pair. 



Wings. — Quite clear. Mediastinal and sub-costal veins with 

 the intervening space dark brown, remaining veins black. The 

 extreme base of the wing is blackish brown. On the wing-shoulder, 

 in front of the costal basal cell, is an elongated patch of erect 

 short silvery white scales, with a fan- shaped bunch of similar longer 

 scales, contiguous, but placed on the adjoining part of the thorax. 

 Halteres pale yellow. 



Described from a specimen I believe to be a 2 in the Indian 

 Museum collection, in perfect condition except that the posterior 

 part of the thorax, and the scutellum, show traces of being partly 

 denuded. 



N.B. — The specimen here described is probably Walker's 

 aperta, it having been compared with the type (from this latter 

 the head is missing) by Mr. Hewlett, but the general description 

 of the author does not appl}^ so well as it might, as he does not 

 mention the conspicuous collar of black bristles on the lower 

 anterior border of the thorax, which (in a headless specimen) ought 

 to have been plainly noticeable. Some minor differences are also 

 to be noted. My redescription will enable the present species 

 to be either confirmed or refuted as Walker's species. 



, Anthrax manifesta, Wlk. 



Redescription. 



$ (?). Long. 14 mm. 



Head. — Frons narrowed considerably on vertex (as in aperta) 

 on which is the small protuberance bearing the ocelli, not touching 

 the eyes ; frons at widest part (base of antennae) equal to one-third 

 the width of the head ; black, clothed with short stiff black hair, 

 which becomes longest and thickest round the base of the antennae, 

 and is continued along the middle line of the face below, whilst 

 there are scattered black bristly hairs on the face below the anten- 

 nae, intermixed with the thick bright orange-yellow bristly hair 

 which covers the face ; some orange-yellow distinct scales being 

 also present amidst the lower part of this hair. Antennae black, 

 first joint much broader at the tip, and on both the outer and 

 inner sides a closely set row of strong long black spines ; second 

 joint bead-like, short, with a few bristles ; third conical, bare, 

 shining, elongated into a long style. Back of head black, with 

 microscopic black pubescence. 



Thorax.— Or omiA colour black. The anterior border, the shoul- 

 ders and the sides, as far as the wings, clothed with dense, long, 

 bright orange-yellow hair. A thick tuft of similar hair on the 

 posterior calli, just behind the tegulae, it being paler on the lower 



