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sliort black bristly hairs mixed with white scales ; squamse whitish, with moder- 
ately long white fringe ; halteres yellow ; the 1st posterior cell is unusually wide 
at apex. 
9 . Similar ; the distance between the eyes at vertex about ^ the width of 
head ; the white scales on abdomen, both above and below, less apparent, 
piossibly because the specimen is somewhat rubbed. 
Length 13-14 mm. 
Deesa ; one specimen of each sex. 
This belongs to the group of E. hetrusca Fab., and is nearest to E. vitreicosia. 
Walk., described from a headless type in poor condition. The present species 
is considerably larger, and the colour of the iridescent scales on the black portion 
is bluish-purple ; in vitreicosta they are distinctly of a bronzy black ; the tvpe 
of vitreicosta has hardly indications of white scales on the abdomen. 
Exoprosopa punjabensis, n. sp. 
(J. Head; frons at level of antennse about ^the width of head, lessening to j of 
that width at vertex ; black above, paler below, almost white along mouth edges ; 
frons covered with yellowish white scales, mixed with short black hairs; face with 
yellowish white scales ; facial bump rather small, about J the short diameter of 
the eye ; antennae black, 1st and 2nd joints with black hairs, 3rd gradually taper- 
ing, longer than the 1st and 2nd together, style short; occiput rather broad, with 
snow-white scales. 
Thorax black ; pronotum with a collar of greyish hairs ; dorsum covered with 
long yellowish grey scales ; sides and below with long white hairs ; seutcllum 
with long yellowish grey scales ; bristles at base of wings, on postalar calli, and 
on margin of scutellum black. 
Abdomen black ; 1st segment and the’ bases of the remaining segments thickly 
covered with yellowish grey scales ; apical margins of all the segments except 
the first covered with black scales, which are mixed with longer black hairs on 
the last two segments; venter with the apical margins of segments broadly 
covered with long white scaly hairs; sides of 1st and 2nd segments with rather 
long grey hairs ; genitalia reddish. 
Legs black ; femora with grey scales. 
Wings rather short, hyaline and iridescent ; base and costal margin very pale 
yellowish ; all the nervures testaceous ; 1st posterior and anal cells wide open, 
2nd posterior cell rather wider at apex than at base; base of costa with yellowish 
grey scales, mixed with short black bristly hairs ; halteres very pale testaceous. 
Length 10-12 mm. 
Described from 3 specimens from Ferozepore, Punjab. 
Very near E. vitrea. Big., but there are no bright yellow hairs on either thorax 
or abdomen in the present species, and all the abdominal segments except the 
first have entire black apical bands; from viteipennis, Brun., it differs in the 
antennae being black, and all the wing veins testaceous. 
This species, with its banded abdomen, bears a strong superficial resemblance 
to one or two small species of Andrena which occur in the same locality. Whe’n 
I captured my specimens I was chiefly interested in Hymenoptera, and thought 
I had caught bees until I examined them. 
Exoprosopa auriplura. Walk. 
By a misprint on page 212. Diptera Brachycera, Vol. I, this name is given 
as auriplena. 
Exoprosopa basifascia, Walk. 
E. semilvcida, Walk., should be sunk as a synonym of this species. The 
types of both are in the British Museum, and I can see no difference between 
them, not in Walker’s descriptions. 
