﻿Additions to the Bombyliid Fauna of Soidh Africa {Biptera^. 471 



One female specimen from Willowmore (Cape), November, 1920 

 (Dr. H. Brauns). 



9 . Length of body and wing 8 mm. 



Head yellowish, clothed with greyish tomentum, which is darker on 

 the occiput ; ocellar tubercle blackish ; frons about as broad as one 

 eye, clothed with short pale yellowish hairs, and having 4-5 long 

 yellowish bristles on each side ; face with short whitish hairs, and 

 with a long mystax of yellowish, bristle-like hairs at mouth border; 

 peristome narrow and whitish ; beard white ; upper occipital hairs 

 yellowish. Antennae with the 2 basal joints red; the first joint is 

 slender and long, about three times as long as the second joint, 

 clothed above with short and below with long yellowish hairs ; third 

 joint black, slender, more slender than the first, as long as the 2 first 

 joints together, with a short, hair-like terminal style. Palpi blackish, 

 short; proboscis black, 4 mm. long. Thorax black, clothed with 

 golden tomentum on the back, and with whitish tomentum on the 

 pleurae; humeri and notapleural region reddish; a short stripe of 

 white hairs on the sides above the root of the wings ; lateral bristles 

 long, strong, rather numerous, of a reddish colour, but the postalar 

 ones are in part blackish ; mesopleura with long white hairs and with 

 a row of yellowish bristles at the hind border ; sternopleura with 

 short white hairs ; metapleura bare. Scutellum entirely black, clothed 

 with golden tomentum, and having 2-3 rows of long blackish bristles 

 at the hind border. Squamae and haltères whitish, the former with 

 white fringe. Abdomen black, densely clothed with golden tomentum, 

 the last segments reddish at hind border ; the hairs are short, scarce 

 and yellowish, but all the segments except the first have a row of 

 erect blackish bristles at the hind border. Venter reddish, clothed 

 with whitish tomentum and white hairs, which are denser towards the 

 sides, forming a white longitudinal stripe on each side. Legs quite 

 reddish, the last tarsal joint only black at end ; coxae white tomentose, 

 and white pilose ; all the bristles of the femora and the spicules of 

 tibiae are reddish or yellowish, the hind femora having a row of 4-5 

 below near the end, and another row of 2-3 on the outer side at end. 

 Claws black and thin, little curved ; pulvilli whitish and shorter than 

 the claws. Wings yellowish at base and on middle of fore border, 

 grey on the remainder ; the dark spots are on the praefurca, on the 

 discal cross- vein (the largest of all), on base of cubital fork and on 

 the apical cross-vein of the second basal cell ; 2 less developed spots 

 ai"e on the apical cross-vein of the discoidal cell and on the external 

 inner angle of the third posterior cell ; there is no trace of fuscous 

 spot at end of the anal cell. Venation as in A. anomala, with the 



