t/ir Itnnihijliiil I'^i/nin of Smith Affirn ( Ih/i/fru ). 11 



border, near the eves; the face is dull velvety Mack, with long and 

 numerous black hairs: the beard is also black behind; proboscis a 

 little shorter than the body. Antennae rather long and closely set at 

 base ; first joint with long black hairs; second joint globular ; third 

 joint a little longer than the first, not attenuate at end, with parallel 

 sides, ending with a very minute style which is curved upwards. In 

 the female there is a tuft of dark yellowish hairs on the upper part 

 of the occiput, wanting in the male. Thorax entirely clothed with 

 black hairs, even on the pleurae; there are silvery spots on the 

 humeri. before the base of wings and in front of the scutellum ; there 

 is also the beginning of two longitudinal silvery stripes on the fore 

 part of the thorax. Squamae and halteres black. Abdomen entirely 

 black-haired, even on the venter ; there is a row of silvery spots on 

 t-ach side, the spots on the fourth segment being broader than the 

 others, and a median row of smaller silvery spots; there are no 

 bristles on the hind borders of the segment, or only very thin and 

 hair-like ones. Legs entirely black; hind femora with 4-6 strong 

 bristles below ; claws of male not much longer than those of the 

 female. Wings with the discal cross-vein placed much before the 

 middle of the discoidal cell ; first posterior cell unusually narrow, blunt 

 at end and long-stalked; second posterior cell with broad base; 

 marginal cell with broad end ; third posterior cell longer than broad ; 

 alula narrow and long, black. The pattern of the wings is as in 

 ilflin/fii.-i, but with the difference above mentioned. 



BOMBYLIUS KIMMANDJARICUS, Speiser (1910). 



A male from Hex River, December 80th, named by Bigot i. litt. 

 B. nitidipunetatus another male from M'Fongosi, Zululand, March, 

 1911 ( W. E. Jones) ; a female from Kimberley (Cape), November. 

 1913 (J. H. Power). 



I am convinced that the present species is the B. cli-<ju* of 

 Wiedemann on account of the fact that this author compares the 

 species with B. ambustnt, which is indeed very like ; but as Loew has 

 placed decisively B. elegant in the group of mit-atix, I prefer to use 

 the name under which Dr. Speiser has recently redescribed the species. 



The hitherto undescribed female is very like anal in, but is easily 

 distinct in being smaller and in having the discal cross-vein placed 

 on or very little after the middle of the discoidal cell ; besides, the 

 wings are not so intensively black at base, but only brownish ; the 

 hind autemial joint is shorter and less attenuate at end. 



