16 Annals of the South African Museum. 



BOMBYLIUS EURHINATUS, Sp. 11OV., ? . 



Easily distinguished by the long and red proboscis, by the red 

 antennae, scutellum and legs, and by the wings being brownish along 

 the fore border near the base. 



Type ? and another specimen from Namaqualand, O'Okiep (Cape), 

 the smaller one labelled by Bigot with the MS. name which I have 

 retained for the species ; another 9 from Namaqualand, Springbok 

 (Cape), November, 1890 (R. M. Lightfoot). Length of body 8-12 mm. ; 

 of proboscis, 6-10 mm. Entirely clothed with fulvous hairs of 

 moderate length, the bristles of body and legs being also entirely 

 vellow. Head yellowish, with black, grey-dusted occiput ; frons very 

 broad. Face produced ; antennae entirely yellow, approximate at base, 

 with the third joint narrow, long, gradually attenuate, with a very 

 short terminal style ; hairs of the occiput dense and rather long, of a 

 pale yellowish colour, those of frons, face and base of antennae short 

 and more yellowish. Palpi yellow ; proboscis about ;is long as the 

 bodv, red above and below, with a black tip. Thorax entirely dull 

 black, clothed with dense fulvous hairs, and provided with yellow 

 bristles before and behind the base of wings ; pleurae without any 

 black hair. Scutellum red, narrowly black at base, clothed with hairs 

 like those of the thorax and with a row of yellow bristles at the hind 

 border. Squamae and halteres yellowish. Abdomen entirely black, 

 clothed with fulvous hairs with rows of thin, yellow bristles at the 

 hind border of the segments ; venter black, with only the hind border 

 of segments yellow. Legs entirelv yellow, whitish-dusted, with yellow 

 bristles, those of the hind femora well developed and numerous. 

 Wings with the basal mfuscation extending to the second basal cell 

 and to the end of the first longitudinal vein ; marginal cell broad at 

 end ; second submargiual cell at base twice as broad ; first posterior 

 cell broad and not attenuate outwardly ; discal cross-vein situated 

 much before the middle of the discoidal cell ; this cell is broadly 

 obtuse outwardly and much longer than the second posterior cell, 

 which has a broad base. Alula with a very short fringe, like that of 

 the hind border of wings ; basal comb rather long and yellow. Veins 

 and costa yellow, the first vein red but black at end ; ambient vein 

 black. 



BOMBYLIUS BRACHYRRHYNCHUS, sp. nov., $ . 



Allied to the preceding, but distinct by its smaller size, by the very 

 short proboscis, by the shape of the first posterior cell, and by the 

 colour of the antennae. The species is also allied with imaidus and 



