liEir AND LITTLE KNOWN INDIAN BOMBYLIIDM. 
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hairs ; pulvilli large, yellowish white. Abdomen blackish, extreme spices of 
most of the segments lighter ; 1st segment with grey scaly hairs ; 2 — 4 segments 
with black hairs, their margins covered with white scales ; last 3 segments 
thickly covered with white scales, the bristles on their apical margins whitish, 
except for a few black ones in the middle ; venter eovered with white hairs and 
scales. Wmgs hyaline, a little yellowish at base and along costal margin ; slight 
infuscations near base of 3rd longitudinal vein and on cross-veins ; base of 
costa with black bristles and yellowish grey scales. 
L. 16 mm. My specimens are about 12 and 14 mm. 
Anthrax? subnotata, Walk. 
Walker’s description of this species was very meagre, and I have not been able 
to find his type in the B. M. collection. Sack records it with some doubt from 
Persia, and Becker from Persian Baluchistan. I have 3 specimens from Quetta 
which correspond fairly well with Sack’s description. 
Anthrax ? isis. Mg. 
I obtahied at Deesa two specimens which are probably this species. 
Anthrax obscura, Sake. 
(Die palaearktischen Spongostilien, p. 516.) 
I have a specimen from Quetta, and there are in the B. M. five specimens from 
Chaman, captured by Col. Swinhoe in 1880 (“ at Mess, 11 p.m.”). Becker records 
it as common in Persia, Seistan and Persian Baluchistan. I do not thmk it can 
be common at Quetta, as I only obtained one specimen during my two years’ 
stay there, and it is so conspicuous that I could hardly have failed to notice it. 
It need only be contrasted with A. bipunctata P., from which it differs in being 
rather smaller (14- 16mm.), having no white pubescence on 1st abdominal 
segment, and the 1st posterior cell closed. The 3rd joint of the antennae is 
onion-shaped in the present species. 
Anthrax bipunctata, F. 
Brunetti does not mention that the 3rd antennal joint of this species is conica 
and not, like most of the other species of this genus, onion-shaped. 
I have a specimen from Deesa, but have not met with it elsewhere. 
Anthrax, sp. inc. 
There are in the B. M. two specimens of an Anthrax, standing over the name 
of Mm6ra Walk., one of which is labelled “ N. Ind.” I have compared these with 
Walker’s type, and they are certainly not that species, though resembling it 
in size and the colour of the wings. The type of umbra, of which the locality 
was unknown, has the 3rd joint of the antennae onion-shaped. The two spe- 
cimens now referred to have only one antenna left, but the 3rd joint of this is 
conical, and they must thus belong to Sack’s subgenus Satyramceba, which in- 
cludes bipunctata F. and etrusca F. One of the specimens has the abdomen more 
or less denuded, the other has four minute spots of white scales on the 2nd ab- 
dominal segment, and two similar but rather larger spots on each of the remain- 
ing segments. 
If the locality is correctly given, this species will probably turn up at some 
future time in N. India, and I therefore caU attention to it. The B. M. speci- 
mens are not in sufficiently good condition for description. 
Petrorossia, Bezzi. 
The following should certainly be transferred to this genus : — 
Argyramoeba claripennis. Brim., deseribed as having the 2nd longitudinal 
vein originating half way between base of discal cell and anterior cross- vein. 
