72 BOMBYLID.E. 



Grey. Head hoary and clothed with white hairs beneath. Proboscis 

 and palpi black. Palpi clothed with whitish hairs. AntennaB black. 

 Wings very pale grey ; stigma pale brown ; veins black, tawny at the 

 base. Abdomen clothed with short black hairs. Legs black ; tibia? 

 dark tawny towards the base ; fore tibia? paler. Male. Thorax indis- 

 tinctly striped. Halteres yellow. Pern. Paler than the male. Thorax 

 with 3 brown stripes, hoary beneath. Halteres tawny. 



Common in Darenth wood, Kent. (E.) 



Genus V. SPANIA. 



SPANIA, Mg. zw. vi. 335 (1830) ; Hal. ; Mq. 



Corpus parvum, nigrum. Proboscis exserta. Palpi longi, lineares. 



AntennaB stylata? ; articulus tertius longm ; quartm indistinctm vel ob- 



soletus. Halteres longissimi, clavati. 

 Mas. Oculi contigui. Antenna? articulo tertio stylato. 

 Fcem. Oculi remoti. Antenna? articulo tertio lineari, basi crasso. 



Body small, black, rather dull. Proboscis prominent. Palpi exserted, 

 long, linear. Antenna sty late, longer than the head ; first joint short ; 

 second very short ; third long ; fourth indistinct or obsolete. Halteres 

 clavate, very long. Abdomen tapering from the base to the tip. Legs 

 rather short. 



Male. Eyes contiguous. Third joint of the antenna? stylate. 



Fern. Eyes remote. Third joint of the antennae linear, thick at the 

 base. 



1. nigra, Mg.! zw. vi. 335. 1. pi. 66. f. 12 (1830); ^. 

 (famjy Hal. e. m. i. 162. Atra, subtus cinerea, alis nigricantibus, 

 abdomine nigro-fusco, pedibus piceis. Long. 2 ; alar. 5 lin. 



Male. Black, grey beneath, clothed with short black hairs. Wings 

 blackish. Halteres, abdomen, and legs piceous. 



Bare; frequents woods. "In moist places of open groves, 

 hovering about and alighting on leaves of evergreens. North of 

 Ireland and Wicklow." Haliday, MSS. (E. I.) 



FAMILY VII. BOMBYLID./E. 



BOMBYLIARII p. et Tabanii p., Lm. Bombyliarii, Anthracii, et Myda- 

 sii (quoad Tkerevd), LI. gen. Tanystoma p., LI. r. a. Anthracina p., 

 E-fn. Sclerostoma p. et Aplocera p., Dmr. Bombyliarii et Anthra- 

 cides, Fin. ; Ztt. Homfylida, Anthracida, et Mydasydts (quoad The- 



