THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
No. 89.] APRIL, MDCCOLXXI. [Price 6d. 
List of Diptera collected in Egypt and Arabia, by J. K. 
Lorp, Esq.; with Descriptions of the Species new 
to Science, by F. WALKER, Ksq., F.L.S. 
(Continued from p. 263.) 
Gen. ANTHRAX, Fabr. 
35. A. tenuis. Male.—Black, slender, with cinereous tomen- 
tum. Epistoma testaceous in front, not prominent, Antenne 
lanceolate. Thorax with a few white bristles on each side. 
Abdomen tawny beneath and along the hind borders of the 
segments on each side above. Legs piceous. Wings pellu- 
cid; veins black, testaceous towards the base; fore branch of 
the cubital vein deeply undulating ; two submarginal areolets. 
Halteres whitish. Length of the body 4 lines. The specimen 
described is somewhat injured. Harkeko. 
Gen. BomBytius, Linn. 
36. B. sericeus, Meig. Zweifl. ii. 203. Cairo. Inhabits 
Europe. 
37. B. senex? Hoffm. Meig. Zweifl. ii. 216. Mount Sinai. 
Inhabits Europe. 
38. B. miscens. Female.—Black, thickly clothed with silvery 
white hairs. Proboscis much longer than the thorax. Scutel- 
lum red. Abdomen with many black bristles along each side 
and at the tip. Legs tawny, minutely setose ; femora black ; 
fore femora tawny towards the tips. Wings pellucid; veins 
black, tawny or testaceous towards the base and along the 
costa. Halteres testaceous. Length of the body 6 lines. 
Hor Tamanib. Harkeko. 
39. B. nivifrons. Male.—Black, thickly clothed with snow- 
white hairs. Proboscis much longer than the thorax. Scutel- 
lum testaceous, except at the base. Abdomen most densely 
clothed with long hairs on each side and at the tip. Legs 
tawny, minutely setose; femora black. Wings cinereous ; 
veins black, tawny or testaceous towards the base. Halteres 
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