76 BOMBYLID^. 



black hairs above the antenna, and with pale yellow hairs below. 

 Wings colourless ; veins black, tawny towards the base. Halteres 

 tawny, with black knobs. Leys tawny, beset with black bristles ; femora, 

 fore tarsi, hinder tarsi towards the tips, and tips of hind tarsi brown. 

 Rare. In Mr. Stephens' s collection. 



5. plebeia, L. fn. 1779 (1761); Fb. ; LI. ; Mg. ; Ztt.fasciata, 

 Dg. ; Mg. kl. strigata, Fb. rustica, Tin. Nigra, antennis articulo 

 tertio lasi ferrugineo, alls subcinereis basi et ad costam fulvis, abdominis 

 segmentorum marginibus posticis auratis, pedibus fulvis, femoribus nigris. 

 Long. 4-^ ; alar. 8 lin. 



Black, thickly clothed with tawny hairs. Head clothed beneath with 

 yellow hairs, on the crown and on each side of the epistoma with black 

 hairs. Proboscis ferruginous. First and second joints of the antenna? 

 clothed with tawny hairs, beset \\ith black bristles ; third joint ferru- 

 ginous at the base. Jf'inys very pale grey, tawny at the base and along 

 the fore border. Halteres tawny ; knobs ferruginous, with a black 

 ring at the base. Hind borders of the abdominal segments gilded. Legs 

 tawny, beset with black bristles ; femora black, clothed with pale tawny 

 hairs ; tips of the tarsi black. 



Not rare. (E.S.I.) 



6. annulata, Fb. s. a. 68. 11 (1805); Fin.; Mg. ; Mq. ; Ztt. ; 

 Lw. anilis, Fb. s. i. ; Shr. ; Mg. kl. ; LI. Mas. Undique niveo- 

 tomentosus. Fcem. Albicans, fronte antice nivea postice fusca, alis 

 albidis, abdomine nigro-annulato. Long. 4 ; alar. 8 lin. 



Body hoary. Head silvery white ; a few black bristles behind the 

 eyes. Proboscis and antenna? black ; first and second joints of the 

 antennas clothed with white hairs and with a few black bristles. Wings 

 whitish ; veins black, tawny towards the base and along the fore 

 border. Halteres tawny. Legs black, beset with black bristles ; 

 femora hoary, clothed with white hairs; tibia? tawny. Male. Body 

 thickly clothed with white hairs. Knobs of the halteres yellow, with a 

 black ring at the base. . Metatarsus tawny, with a black tip ; second 

 joint tawny towards the base. Fern. Crown cinereous. Thorax clothed 

 with cinereous hairs. Knobs of the halteres tawny. Abdomen clothed 

 with hoary hairs. Metatarsus tawny at the base. 



Not rare. It has much resemblance to T. anilis, L., which is 

 distinguished from it and from the preceding species by the open 

 fourth posterior areolet. (E. S. I.) 





Genus II. ANTHRAX. 



ANTHRAX, Mg. zw. ii. 141(1820); LI.; Wdm. ; Fin.; Ztt. Musca 

 p., L. ; Gm. ; Hbst. Asihis p., L. Nemolelus p., Dg. Bibio p., 



