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part. Dorsum with soft short black hair which is replaced on the 

 posterior border by yellowish grey, rather longer hair. Scutellum 

 black, with soft blackish brown hair. 



Abdomen. — Broad as thorax, linear, tip rounded. Black, 

 the dorsum occupied with rather sparse black and brown hairs, 

 with which, towards the base, are mixed some pale 3^ellow hairs. 

 The sides from the base to the tip are clothed with dense, soft, 

 bright orange-yellow hair, which is interrupted just before the 

 tip by a tuft of thick soft black hair on each side. The extreme tip 

 of the abdomen bears only a few black hairs, and the yellow hairs 

 on each side of these are much paler. Belly covered with paler 

 yellow hairs. 



Legs. — Black. Femora with a little soft black hair, tibise 

 with a few short black irregularly placed spines, posterior tibife 

 with a circlet of short spines at the tip. Hind tibiae with strong 

 long black spines, intermixed with black and brown elongated 

 scales which are rather numerous. All the femora have on the 

 upper and hinder sides, and the anterior tibiae on the hinder sides, 

 small scattered orange-yellow scales, lying close to the surface. 



Wings. — Very pale gre3^ Extreme base (barely encroach- 

 ing on basal and anal cells) dark brown, which colour extends 

 deeply along the costa to the end of the sub-costal vein (first longi- 

 tudinal), and in a slightly paler shade to the fourth longitudinal 

 vein, and distally to just beyond the origin of the second vein, which 

 is almost opposite the discal transverse vein, the marginal cell being 

 similarly coloured for about its basal half. Halteres pale yellowish 

 white. Tegulae brownish, with a fringe of long orange scales. 



Described from three specimens taken by Mr. Howlett at Mus- 

 soorie (W. Himalayas). 



N.B. — This species was compared by the above gentleman 

 with Walker's type at the British Museum, and as that author's 

 description agrees very well, I have accepted the identification 

 and redescribed the species. 



Anthrax clausa, mihi, sp. nov. 



cf . lyower Burma. lyong. 8|- mm. 



Head. — Slightly broader than thorax and abdomen. Frons 

 and face black, clothed with dense short black hair. Eyes dis- 

 tinctly separated at vertex, the ocelli being placed well forward, 

 the frons widening very rapidly, until at the insertion of the anten- 

 nae it occupies half the width of the head. Antennae black ; 

 first joint cylindrical, second sub-spherical, much shorter than 

 first ; third onion-shaped, with long style, small, narrower and 

 shorter than second. Under side of face uniformly black, pro- 

 boscis almost invisible. Back of head dark grey with a few whitish 

 hairs. 



Thorax. — Ground colour duU black ; anterior border with a 

 rather thick fringe of grey hairs, which apparently cover both 

 dorsum and sides. 



