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Genns CONOPHOllUS Meis;;. 

 Conophorus bellus Beck. 



{ZnUrhr.f. a/i-it. frj/m. u. Dipt., Bd. vi. p. 112 (I'.IOl'i) (P/<«« belle,).) 



One c? fi-om Biskra, South Algeria (Hon. L. W. Rothschild ami Dr. E. .T. 0. 

 Hartert). 



The tyi>e of this species was obtained at Tnnis. 



Genns ANASTOECHUS 0. Sack. 

 Anastoechus retrogradus l'>eck. 



(Mdleil. Zu„!. .IAhs. Berlin, ii. Bd., 2. Heft, p. 17 (1302) {Syxluecliu^).) 



One ? from the sonthern portion of the Oned M3'a, Algerian Sahara, 4. v. 1912. 



The typical specimens of .1. retrofjradus were taken at Alexandria, Egypt, at 

 the beginning of May, and Bezzi (Broteria, Ser. XooL, vol. viii. fasc. 2, p. oO, 

 tab. i.x. fig. 37 (1909)), who has published a photographic illn.stration of the species. 

 also records its occurrence at Sidi-Gaber, near Alexandria. Becker floe, cit.) 

 mentions the capture of a ? at Berriane, Southern Algeria (Sahara), on May 2Si 

 (l^rof. Lameere), and the British Museum (Natural History) possesses a S and ¥ 

 from Biskra, Algeria, 13. iv. 1895, " visiting lAmoniastrum guijonianmn, Coss. and 

 Dnr." (Hev. A. E. Eaton). A second ¥ in the National Collection, from Fontaine 

 (Ihaude, S. Algeria, 10. v. 1894 (Rev. A. E. Eaton), either represents a variety of 

 A. retrograding Beck., or, as is perhaps more probable, belongs to a new but closely 

 allied species. It is distinguished from the typical form of .1. retrogradus by its 

 much greater size, measuring 14-5 instead of 11 or 12 mm. in length ; by the first 

 joint of the antennae being pale cinnamon-rufous, instead of black or blackish ; by 

 the third joint of the antennae being diflPerent in shape (suddenly contracted and 

 less tapering) as seen when the head is viewed in profile ; and by the greater 

 development of coarse, ochre-yellow or brown-tipped hairs on the front, and of 

 transverse bands of ochraceous hairs on the abdomen. 



Anastoechus retrogradus Beck, is allied to A. (Bomhi/Ui(s) misrens Walk. 

 {Entomologist, vol. v. p. 271 (1871)), the type of which was obtained at Arkeko, 

 near Massowah, Eritrasa. In A. misceus, however, tlie abdominal bristles are 

 entirely black, the base of the anterior branch of the third longitudinal vein is not 

 rectangular and is devoid of all trace of a recurrent ajtpendix, and the transverse 

 veins arc not suffused with brown. 



Anastoechus hyrcanus (Pall.) Wifd. 



(Zoolnr/ischeK Mar/azlii, Bd. i. Stuck ii. p. 22 (1H1.S) {Bnmbijliux).) 



One S from Biskra (Hon. L. W. Rothschild and Dr. E. J. O. Hartert). 



Genus BOMBYLIUS Linn. 

 Bombylius punctatus I'abr. 



(ICiil. Si/hI. T. iv. p. 40K (17'.I4J.) 



One excellently preserved 6 of this splendid species from Hammam K'lrha, 

 North Algeria, May 1911 (Hon. L. W. Rothschihl and Dr. E. .1. U. Hartert). 



The National (Collection previously possessed specimens of /I. puiirtittiis from 



