
Catalogue of Indian Insects. 
Part 3.—_BOMBYLIIDAS. 
BOMBYLIIDZ:. 
General account: Howlett, Ind. Ins: L., 597-600, figs. ; Will., Dipt. 
N. Amer., 210-213, figs.; Brun., F. I. Dipt. Brachy. I, 173-174 [charac- 
terized]; Verrall, Br. Flies, V, 474=478 [general account and systematic 
order of genera]: Brun.; R. I. M., II, 437-492 frevised cat. of Oriental 
 spp.]; Villen., Ann. S. Ent. Fr. 1905, 304-306 {Meigen’s types in Paris 
-Mus.]. 
BOMBYLIINAS. 
Verrall, Br. Flies, V, 483; Brun.,-F. I. Dipt. Brachy. I, 259. 
1. Empidideicus, Becker. 
Empidideicus, Beck., Zeit. f. Hym. u. Dipt., 
VII, 97, fig. (1907), [Genotype, £. 
carthaginensis, Beck.]; Verr., Br. 
Flies, V, 484, fig. 272; Brun., F. I. 
Dipt. Brachy. I, 260. - 
indicus, Brunetti. 
Empidideicus indicus, Brun., R. I. M., » ? Simla. © 
Pele es figs ck (LOLs. ee iE, 
Dipt. Brachy. I, 260. 
2. Geron, Meigen. 
Geron, Mg., Syst. Besch., II, 223, (1829) 
fGenotype, Bombylius hybridus, Mg:]; 
Sch., F. Aust., I, 68; Cogq., Tr. Amer. 
Ent. Soc., XXI; Mik, Wien. Ent. 
Zeit., XIV, 106 [parasitic on Pyralid ; 
larva]; Ald., Cat. N.-Amer. Dipt, 

