KEW AND LITTLE KNOWN INDIAN BOMBYLIID^E. 
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Exoprosopa disrupta. Walk. 
Entomologist, 1871, p. 261. 
There is a specimen of this species in the B. M., labelled “ Ind.” My own 
specimens are from Lahej near Aden, and it i-eqnires confirmation as Indian. 
The following abridged description should enable the species to be recognised. 
^ 9 . Black ; lower part of frons, antennae, and mouth edge red ; face and frons 
with short black hairs and white scales ; occiput with sparse white scales ; pro- 
notal collar pale yellow, dorsum of thorax with yellowish white scales, sides with 
longer grey scales ; scuteUum and abdomen more or less covered with grey scales, 
forming bands (often denuded) at the base of abdominal segments, which bands 
are usually most conspicuous on the 3rd and 5th segments; abdomen of the ^ more 
or less dark red ; femora and tibiae reddish ; wings with dark baso-costal bands 
and all the veins, but more espeeially the cross veins, broadly suffused. 
Length 8-13 mm. 
(to be continued.) 
