﻿<),! fhr Jioinhi/lllil Fdinni nf Soiilli Africt (1 >i pferii). It 



l)(>r<ler, iicui- the eves ; the face is tlull velvety hlack. witli lout;- and 

 numerous lilaek hairs; the beard is also black l)ehind ; proboscis a 

 little shorter than the body. Antennae rather lon^' and closely set at 

 l>use ; tirst joint witli loni;' lilack hairs; second joint i,dobular ; third 

 joint a little lono^er than the first, not attenuate at end, with pai'allel 

 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 entn-ely clothed with 

 l>lack liairs. even on the pleurae; there are silvery spots on the 

 humeri, before the !)ase 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 haltères black. Abdomen entirely 

 l)lackdiaired. even on the venter; thei-e is a row of silvery spots on 

 each side, the spots on the fourth segment being broader than the 

 othei's, and a, UKMlian row of smaller sdvery spots ; thei-e are m> 

 bristles on the hind btn-ders of the segment, or only very thin and 

 hair-like ones. Legs entirely Idack ; liind femora with 4-6 strong 

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

 femalt'. Wings with the discal cross-vein placed much before the 

 middh'of thediscoidal cell; first posterior cell unusually narrow, blunt 

 at end and long-stalked; second posterior cell with l»road base; 

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

 alula narrow and long, black. The })attern of the wing-s is as in. 

 ilrjiiutfifn, but with the difference alnive mentioned. 



BoMHvr.ius Kii,ii\iANDJARicus, Speiser (1'.>1<>). 



A male from Hex River, December :5Uth, named by Bigot i. litt. 

 B. iiUidipiinrtatiis; another male from MTongosi, Zululand. March, 

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

 1918 (J. H. Power). 



I am convinced that the present species is the B. t^leijav.^ of 

 Wiedemann on account of the fact that this author compares the 

 species with B. (n}iJ>i(sfii.-<. which is indeed very like ; l»ut as Loew has 

 placed decisively B. elegant in the group of )it!cath'^, I prefer to use 

 the name under which Dr. Speiser has recently redescril)ed the species. 



The hitherto undescribed female is very like auullf, l)ut is easily 

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

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

 Avings are not so intensively Idack at base, but only Itrowuish ; the 

 hind antennal joint is shorter and less attenuate at end. 



