﻿10 Ainial-i of the Soiitit African Mii><eiim. 



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



Length of body, 9-5 mm. ; expanse of Avings, 25 mm. Head l)lac'k, 

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

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

 as in analls ; palpi black ; proboscis l)lack, ti mm. long ; shape and 

 width of the frons as in anal is. Thora.v black, clothed with dense 

 and short white hairs, I»ut having on the back three distinct 

 longitudinal stripes of dark hairs ; macrochaetae strong and long, 

 black, but the longest end in a white point ; mesopleiu'al bi-istles 

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

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

 border. Squamae brown, white-fringed ; haltères 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-spinose ; pulvilli yellowish ; hind femora beneath with a 

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

 blackeiieil at the e.\treme base and distinctly yellowish-brown to the 

 end of the costal cell at the fore border : alula grey, white-fringed 

 behind ; basal com!» of middle size, black, with white hairs al)0ve. 

 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 thii-d vein very little retreating 

 at base. 



BoMBYLius MUTiLATus, sp. nov., (^ and 9 . 



Very like B. delicatiis, but at once distinguishevl by the want of the 

 arcuate l)rown band, which along the sixth longitudinal vein unites the 

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



Type (^ and type 9 » ^^^à other specimens of botli sexes, from 

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

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

 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 ; 

 frons of female broad, shining, with a dullish Itand 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 



