10 Ami <.i{* of the Smith A/rii-an Museum. 



Type ? , a single specimen from Van Wyk's Vlei (Cape). 



Length of body, 9'5 mm. ; expanse of wings, 25 mm. Head black, 

 clothed with dense but short white hairs, with some bristly black- 

 hairs near the ocelli ; occipital hairs short ; antennae black, shaped 

 as in analis ; palpi black ; proboscis black, 6 mm. long ; shape and 

 width of the frons as in a nail*. Thorax black, clothed with dens*- 

 and short white hairs, but having on the back three distinct 

 longitudinal stripes of dark hairs ; macrochaetae strong and long, 

 black, but the longest end in a white point ; mesopleural bristles 

 well developed, white ; pleurae and breast with hairs altogether white. 

 Scutellum black, with black hairs and with long black bristles on hind 

 border. Squamae brown, white-fringed ; halteres black. Abdomen 

 black and black-haired at base and on middle, with short white hairs 

 on the sides, and at end with long hairs, black at base and white 

 at end ; venter with long greyish hairs. Legs entirely black and 

 black- spiiiose ; pulvilli yellowish ; hind femora beneath with a 

 complete row of 15-16 strong spines. Wings hyaline, narrowly 

 blackened at the extreme base and distinctly yellowish-brown to the 

 end of the costal cell at the fore border ; alula grey, white-fi-inged 

 behind ; basal comb of middle size, black, with white hairs above. 

 Wing- veins yellowish, but darkened outwardly ; second longitudinal 

 perfectly straight ; first posterior cell broad and obtuse at end ; discal 

 cross-vein on the middle of the discoidal cell, which is rather obtuse 

 outwardly, its external cross-vein being almost as long as the discal 

 cross-vein ; upper branch of the third vein very little retreating 

 at base. 



BOMBYLIUS MUTLLATUS, Sp. 11OV., ^ and 9 



Very like B. deUrnttis, but at once distinguished by the want of the 

 arcuate brown band, which along the sixth longitudinal vein unites the 

 brown of the base with the hind border of the wing. 



Type ^ and type $ , and other specimens of both sexes, from 

 Dunbrody, Uitenhage (Cape), December 19th and March 1st, 1912; 

 Parys, Orange Free State ; January, 1889 ; M'Fongosi, Zululand, 

 March, 1911 (W. E. Jones). 



Length of the body 4-6 mm. Head black and clothed with 

 long black hairs ; eyes of male coalescing for a long distance ; 

 frous of female broad, shining, with a dullish band above the 

 base of the antennae ; ocellar tubercle opaque black ; both sexes 

 have a small silvery spot outside the base of antenna, a cross-band 

 of silvery hairs on the lower part of the face interrupted towards the 

 middle, and a small round silvery spot in the middle of the occipital 



