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partly ferruginous along the costa, and with two brown incom- 

 plete bands, the exterior one much broader than the other; 

 halteres testaceous. 



Length of the body 4| lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



Port Natal. 



In Mr. Saunders's collection. 



Genus Bomeylius, Linn. 

 Bombylius areolatus. 



Fuscus, subtus fulvus, capite apud antennas ferrugineo subtus 

 cano, antennis nigris, thorace vittis duabus albis, scutello fer- 

 rugineo, abdomine vittis tribus argenteis, lateribus nigro- 

 pilosis, pedibus halteribusque fulvis, alis subcinereis, basi 

 costdque fuscis. 

 Brown, and clothed with brown hairs, tawny beneath ; head 

 ferruginous about the base of the antennae, hoary beneath: 

 proboscis and antennae black ; thorax with a stripe of white hairs 

 on each side ; scutellum ferruginous ; abdomen with three stripes 

 of silvery white down, and with long lateral and apical black 

 hairs ; legs and halteres tawny ; wings greyish, brown at the base 

 and along the costa till near the tips ; the outline of the brown 

 rather irregular ; veins black. 



Length of the body 3g lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 

 Australia. 



Genus Lepidophora, Westw. 

 Lepidophora vetusta. 



Mas. — Nigra, capite thoraceque cinereo-tomentosis nigro-se- 

 tosis, scutello thoracisque lateribus ferrugineis, abdominis 

 apice dense plumoso, femoribus ex parte ferrugineis, alis ni- 

 gris, apice margineque postico limpidis, halteribus apice albis. 

 Male — Black ; head and thorax with cinereous tomentum, and 

 with short black bristles ; scutellum and borders of the thorax 

 ferruginous ; tip of the abdomen thickly plumed ; femora partly 

 ferruginous ; wings black, limpid at the tips and along the hind 

 border ; halteres with white tips. 



Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 

 Valley of the Amazon. 



Lepidophora secutor. 



Mas. — Nigra, pectore cinereo-tomentoso, abdominis apice plu- 

 moso, alis nigricantibus apice cinereis. 



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