^'E W AND LITTLE KNOWN INDIAN BOMBYLIIDM. 
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Exoprosopa tamerlan, Portachinsky. 
Horae Soc. Entom. Ross, Vol. XXI, p. 185. 
^ 9 Head, including antennae, thorax, and abdomen mainly or entirely 
red, covered ■with rufous scales and rather sparse pubescence of similar colour ; 
3rd abdominal segment bears a small spot of white scales on each Side, but this 
is often obsolete or abraded ; legs mainly black, wings with a broad yellow bases 
costal band, margined posteriorly by a brown band, the latter varying consider- 
ably in width and intensity, apical and posterior margin hyaline ; 1st posterior 
cell closed, the 4th vein meeting the 3rd nearly half way between the fork of the 
latter and the wing border. 
Length 18-21 mm. 
This fine species is common at Quetta, where I obtained nine specimens which 
agree well with Portschinsky’s description, and also vdth the figure given in 
Becker’s Persische Dipteren. 
Originally described from Mei v, and Becker records it from Persian Baluchistan. 
Exoprosopa inter stilialis, n. sp. 
. Head ; frons at level of antennae rather more than one-third the width 
of head, not much narrowed at vertex ; upper mouth edge protruding, viewed 
in profile fully half the short diameter of the eye ; vertex black, with short stiff 
black hairs which extend nearly to the antennae, frons and face yellowish, covered 
with yellowish grey scales, below which a black spot is visible just above the upper 
mouth edge ; lower mouth edge very pale testaceous ; antennae brownish black, 
1st and 2nd joints with stiff black haii-s, 3rd joint, excluding style, as long as the 
first two combined, gradually tapering, with style | of its length; proboscis rather 
long, blackish, palpi dark brown ; occiput blackish, with a fringe of white scales 
along eye margins. 
Thorax black, with a collar of pale yellowish grey scaly hairs, extending back 
towards the wing bases; disc covered with yellowish grey scales, bristles at base 
of ■wings and on postalar calli pale yellow ; mesopleurae with grey pubescence, 
scutellun reddish brown, with scales similar to those on the thorax ; marginal 
bristles pale. 
Abdomen mainly brick red, but all the segments are more or less black at base; 
disc with grey scales (partially denuded), and with a few short stiff hairs on apical 
margins of segments, especially towards the sides, which are thickly covered with 
greyish scaly hairs ; venter red, covered with grey scaly hairs. 
Legs chiefly red ; coxae with long grey pubescence, f^ora and tibiae covered 
with grey scales, tarsi bro^wnish, becoming nearly black towards apex ; inter- 
mediate and posterior tibiae with black spinules. 
Wings dark bro^vn, with a flavous tinge at base to beyond humeral cross vein ; 
there is a very ill-defined oblique median darker band, and there are dark suffusions 
on all the cross veins, but the following portions of the wing are sub-hyaline, viz., 
the greater portion of 2nd basal cell, base of anal cell, apical half of discal cell, 
and most of the marginal and posterior cells ; in the apical fourth of wing the 
discs of the cells are darker than in the immediate vicinity of the longitudinal 
veins ; the first posterior cell is closed and long stalked, the 4th longitudinal 
vein joining the 3rd at a right angle, and being interstitial with the cross vein 
connecting 3rd longitudinal vein with the lower branch of the 2nd ; most of the 
larger longitudinal nervures are reddish brown, the smaller ones appearing 
darker ; base of costa with numerous but very short bristles, and some golden 
yellow scales ; halteres pale yellow, fringe of alulae smoky. 
Length 15 mm. 
Described from a single specimen taken at Quetta in May. I cannot find 
among published descriptions any species which combines wing markings as 
described above with a closed 1st posterior cell. 
