﻿106 Annah of the South African Museum. 



Described by me from Natal in my Avork on the Bombyliidae of the 

 British Museum. There is a specimen from MTongosi, Zuluhmd, 

 May, 1916 (W. E. Jones). 



ToxoPHORA DiPLOPTERA, Speiser (1910). 



A species very like T. maeulata, from which it is distinguished by 

 the bluish-scaled body, and by the infuscated and dark spotted 

 wings. 



Originally described from Usambara, but widely distributed in 

 South Africa. I believe that Loew mistook the present species for 

 maeulata. Damaraland, Grootfontein, December, 1918 (R. M. Light- 

 foot) ; Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia, September ord, 1913; M'Fongosi, Zulu- 

 land (W. E. Jones). The female only has white scales, while in the 

 male those on the middle abdominal stripe are yellow, as also those at 

 the end of the side stripes. 



ToxoPHORA CAERULEivENTRis, Karscli (1887). 



A beautiful species, at once distinguished by the blue and white 

 striped abdomen, and by the blackish fore border of the wings. 



Originally described from Delagoa Bay, there is a male from Bula- 

 wayo, S. Rhodesia, February 11th, 1912. The spines of the legs in the 

 male are typical, but the middle femora have no spines. 



Subfamily CYLLENIINAE. 



NOMALONIA; Rondani (1863). 



The present genus was founded by Rondani on Cijllenia afra Mac- 

 C[uart, non Wiedemann ; and it is very fortunate that the collection 

 contains the two insects of Macquart, which are very different from 

 that of Wiedemann ; we are therefore able to clear up the great con- 

 fusion in Dr. Kertcsz's Catalogue, pp. 69, 70. 



The genus is evidently connected with Cyllenia, with which it 

 agrees apparently in the venation, having, hoAvever, a long praef urea ; 

 but it is distinguished by the broad l)ody, which is devoid of long 

 bristles on the abdomen, by the bare face, the very different shape of 

 the antennae, and the long proboscis. In these characters it agrees 

 with Henica, from which it is sepax'ated here only as a tribvite to the 

 memory of Rondani. 



The principal features of the genus are : Three well-developed 

 ocelli disposed in an equilateral triangle. Frons of the male narrowed 

 at the vertex, but very broad on the fore part ; that of the female 



