On the Bomlnjli'nl Fa mm of South Africa (Dipt era). 9 



A male from Howick, Natal; another male from Rondebosch 

 (Cape), September, 1883, determined as lateral is by Bigot, and a 

 female from the same locality. Of B. (Triplasius) hivittatus, Loew, 

 I have received a male from Grahamstown (Cape). 



BOMBYLIUS BOMBIFORMIS, Bezz. (ined). 



Easily distinguished from the allies of B. analis on account of 

 the broad, transverse baud of orange hairs across the middle of the 

 abdomen. Originally described from Rhodesia in my work on the 

 Ethiopian Bombylidae of the British Museum, there is a specimen 

 likewise from Rhodesia (Peniba), 1918 (Father Casset). 



BOMBYLIUS HAEMORRHOIDALIS, sp. nov. 



Almost the same as B. analis, Fabr., but distinguished in being 

 of greater size, in having a bi'ight fulvous (not white) terminal tuft 

 on the abdomen, and in the discoidal cell of the wings being acute 

 outwardly. Type $ , from Mashoualand, Salisbury, 1894 (Gr. A. K. 

 Marshall). Salisbury (March 20, 1914), R. Jack. 



(. Length of the body, 17 mm. ; of the wing, 18 mm. ; of wing- 

 spread, 45 mm. Head, its appendages and its furry pile exactly as 

 in analis; thorax, scutellum, squamulae and halteres likewise. The 

 hairs at end of the abdomen have the same length and extension, but 

 they are above and below of a bright fulvous colour, with golden 

 sheen ; in analis they are always of a pure white colour, or there are 

 only some fulvous hairs at base of the tuft on the ventral side alone. 

 Legs and wings as in analis ; but the discoidal cell is acute at its 

 distal end, touching in a point only the second posterior cell, which 

 is thus almost stalked at base ; in the very numerous specimens of 

 analis which I have seen there is always a rather long cross-vein 

 between the above-named cells. Besides, the distinct yellowish tint 

 of the wings of analis is wanting in the present species. 



BOMBYLIUS ACROLEUCUS, sp. nov., $ . 



Near B. Icilimandjaricus, and I formerly considered it to be the 

 female of that species ; but the second longitudinal vein being 

 straight it belongs to the group of analis, and is to be considered 

 as a connecting link between this group and that of ornatus, on 

 account of the elongated body and of the position of the discal 

 cross-vein. 



