78 BOMBYLID^. 



some pale spots, which are most ferruginous at the base, colourless along 

 the hind borders and at the tips ; the outline of the black hue is very 

 irregular, and it extends twice nearly to the hind border : hind borders 

 of the abdominal segments adorned on each side with patches of silvery 

 down. 



Very rare. In the British Museum. (E.) 



2. fenestrata, Pin. d. s. anthr. 8. 4 (1814); Mg. ; Mq. ; Ztt. ; 

 Zll. ; Gmtl. morio, L. maura, Hbst.; Mg.; Lm. ornata,Ct.\ b. e. 

 i. 9. 4. Nigra, capite supra nigro-piloso subtus fulvo-piloso, an- 

 tennis basi fulvis, thorace fulvo-piloso ad alas albo-fasciculato, scu- 

 tello rufo, alls nigro-fuscis fulvo et limpido maculatis aplce et margine 

 postico limpidis, abdomine nigro-piloso albo-bifasciato et apice fascicu- 

 late basi utrinque et subtus rufo, pedibus fulvis. Long. 4^-; alar. 

 11 lin. 



Black. Head clothed above with black hairs, beneath with tawny 

 hairs ; sides of the epistoma and of the peristoma tawny ; epistoma very 

 prominent. First and second joints of the antenna} clothed with short 

 black hairs. Thorax clothed with tawny hairs ; a large tuft of white 

 hairs at the base of each wing; scutdhmi red. Wings dark brown for 

 three-fourths of the length, colourless towards the tips and along tJie 

 hind border ; 5 or 6 colourless and 2 pale tawny spots in the brown 

 part-, veins black, partly ferruginous. Halteres tawny. Abdomen 

 clothed with black hairs ; 2 interrupted bands of short white hairs on 

 the back, and a tuft at the tip ; sides towards the base and underside 

 red. Legs tawny, covered with yellow scales, beset with short black 

 bristles ; tips of the tarsi black. 



Bare; appears in the south and south-west of England 

 during August and September. (E.) 



3. hottentotta, L. fn. 1787 (1761); Shr. ; Fb. ; Fin.; LL; 

 Lm. ; Ct. circumdata, Hms. ; Mg. ; Mq. ; Ztt. ; Gmtl. cingulata, 

 Ahr. ! f. e. iii. f. 19. Nigra, fulvo-pilosa, alls limpidis basi et ad costam 

 fuscis, abdominis apice nigro-trifasciculato ; Mas. alis basi argenteo- 



squamosis, abdominis apice albo-unifasciculato ; Joem. abdominis 

 apice flavo-unifasciculato. Long. 5-6 ; alar. 11-13 lin. 



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

 black hairs on the crown and on the epistoma. First and second 

 joints of the antennae clothed with black hairs. Wings colourless, pale 

 brown at the base and along three-fourths of the fore border; the latter 

 is black, and near the base is tufted with black bristles. Three tufts 

 of black hairs on the tip of the abdomen. Male. A cluster of silvery 

 scales on the base of each wing. A tuft of white hairs on each side of 

 the middle black tuft at the tip of the abdomen. Fern. Abdomen with 

 2 two tufts of yellow hairs at the tip: 



Rare. (E. I.) 



4. cingulata, Mg. zw. ii. 145. 3 (1820); Mq. ; Ct. ; Zll.; Ztt. 





