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a tuft ; tlie bristles are longer tluiii the hairs, black, but those of 1 lie 

 hiud half are mainly yellow. Venter white-dusted and white-haired in 

 the middle, the sides with loni;- and dense yellow bristly hairs, which 

 are strikingly noticeal^le l)etween the black pubescence. Legs with 

 strong, black spines, those of the hind femora numbering 5-7, and 

 very long ; femora black, white-scaled ; til )iae yellow ; tarsi black' with 

 yellowish base. ChiAvs of the male very long, black ; claws of the 

 female more than one-half shorter than those of the male ; pulvilli 

 dark, linear. Wings with the upper l)ranch of the cubital fork 

 thoroughly curved near the base ; first posterior cell short, narrow and 

 rather ol)tuse at end ; discoidal cell broad and obtuse ; second and 

 third posterior cells short and broad ; discal cross-vein placed after the 

 middle of the discoidal cell. Veins Itlack. Base and marginal cell 

 blackened, but the latter with two hyaline spots at end ; black spots 

 placed as in capensls and likewise broad, but those at the base of the 

 second and third posterior cells much broader, and united with the 

 spots on the ends of the veins in the shape of a single angular spot ; 

 at the end of the anal cell there is a. very broad spot, wliich is imited 

 with the one at the end of the second basal cell. 



BOMBYLIUS BRAUNSI, Sp. UOV. 



Allied to the preceding, l)ut distinct by its smaller size, and in 

 Avanting the brown spots at the hind border of wùngs. 



This species was found near Willowmore (Cape) by Dr. Brauns, and 

 will be described by me in a forthcoming paper on the African 

 Bombylidae of the Hungarian Museum. 



BOMBYLIUS PUNCTATELLUS, Sp. nOV., (^ . 



Allied to the three preceding species, but distinct, being the smallest 

 of all, and having the marginal cell completely filled with brown to 

 the end, without any hyaline spot. 



Type (^ , an example from the Cape without special locality. 



Length of body 6 mm. ; wing expanse 18 mm. Head black ; the 

 eyes are more widely separated than in the other males : hairs long 

 and whitish, those on the occiput rather long ; bristles long and black, 

 but those of the peristomial comb yellowish. Proboscis black, 2'5mm. 

 long ; third antennal j(nnt linear, Avitli a rather long terminal style. 

 Thorax and scutellum entirely black, with long yellowish hairs and 

 very long, dark yellow bristles. Abdomen l)lack, with dark yellow 

 hairs on sides and at end with partly black hairs ; bristles longer 

 than the hairs and yellow. Legs yellow, black-spinose ; femora dark, 



