78 BOMBYLID.^. 



soyne pale spots, wJdch are most ferruginous at the base, colourless along 

 the hind borders and. at the tips ; the outline of the black hue is very 

 irregular, aud it extends twice nearly to the hind border : hind borders 

 of the abdominal segments adorned on each side with patches of silvery 

 down. 



Yery rare. In the British Museum. (E.) 



2. fenestrata. Fin. d. s. anthr. 8. 4 (1814); Mg. ; Mq. ; Ztt. ; 

 ZU. ; Gmtl. — inorio,'L. — niawa, WoS:i.; Mg.; Lm. — ornafa, Ct.\ b. e. 

 i. 9. 4. Nigra, capite supra nigro-piloso subtus fidvo-piloso, an- 

 tennis basi fulns, thorace fulvo-piloso ad alas albo-fasciculato, scu- 

 tello rufo, alls nigro-fuscis fulvo et limpido raaculatis apice et margine 

 postico limpidis, abdomiue nigro-piloso albo-bifasciato et apice fascicu- 

 late basi utriuque et subtus rufo, pedibus fid\-is. Long. 4^ ; alar. 

 11 lin. 



Black. Head clothed above with black hairs, beneath -n-ith tawny 

 hairs : sides of the epistoma and of the peristoma tawny ; epistoma very 

 prominent. First and second joints of the antennae clothed \dth. short 

 black hairs. Thorax clothed with tawny hairs ; a large tuft of white 

 hairs at the base of each wing; scutellum red. Wings dark brown for 

 three-fourths of the length, colourless towards the tips and along the 

 hind border ; 5 or 6 colourless and, 2 pale tawny spots in the broicn 

 part; veins black, partly ferruginous. Halteres tawny. Abdomen 

 clothed with black hairs ; 2 interrupted bands of short white hairs on 

 the back, and a tuft at the tip ; sides towards the base and underside 

 red. Legs tawny, covered with yellow scales, beset with short black 

 bristles ; tips of the tarsi black. 



Piare; appears in the south and south-west of England 

 dming August aud September. (E.) 



3. hottentotta, L. fn. 1787 (1761); Shr. ; Fb. ; Fbi. ; LI.; 

 Lm. ; Ct. — circumdatu, Hms. ; Mg. ; Mq. ; Ztt. ; Gmtl. — cingidata, 

 Ahr. ! f. e. iii. f. 19. Nigra, fulvo-pilosa, alis limpidis basi et ad costani 

 fuscis, abdominis apice nigi'o-trifasciculato ; Mas. alis basi argenteo- 

 squamosis, abdominis apice albo-unifasciculato ; Fcem. abdominis 

 apice flavo-unifasciculato. Long. 5-6 ; alar. 11-13 lin. 



Black, thickly clothed with tawny hairs. Head clothed with some 

 black hairs on the crown and on the epistoma. First and second 

 joints of the antennae clothed with black hairs. Wings colourless, pale 

 brown at the base and along three-fourths of the fore border ; the latter 

 is black, and near the base is tufted with black Inistles. Three tufts 

 of black hairs on the tip of the abdomen. Male. A cluster of silveiy 

 scales on the base of each wing. A tuft of white hairs on each side of 

 the middle black tuft at the tip of the abdomen. Fein. Abdomen with 

 2 two tufts of yellow hahs at the tip. 



Eare. (E. t.) 



4. cingulata, Mg. zw. ii. 145. 3 (1820); Mq. ; Ct.; ZU. ; Ztt. 



