LIST OP DIPTERA. 275 



Bombylius suffusus, n. s., fem. Niger, thorace pilis fulvis vestito, 

 pectore pilis albis et nonnullis nigris vestito, abdomine pilis 

 nigris vestito fasciculisque uno fulvo duobusque albis apice ornato, 

 antennis pedibusque nigris illis basi fulvis, alis limpidis, basi 

 nigro-fuscis, costa venarumque marginibus fulvis. 



Body black : head clothed above with pale tawny hairs, and in 

 front with silvery hairs ; sides of the mouth piceous : mouth black, 

 about half the length of the body : feelers black, tawny at the base : 

 eyes piceous : chest clothed with pale tawny hairs : breast clothed 

 with white hairs, and having a few black hairs about the base of the 

 legs : abdomen clothed with black hairs, which are most thick on 

 each side ; its tip adorned with two large tufts of white hairs, and 

 having also beneath a small tuft of bright tawny hairs : legs black : 

 wings slightly gray, tawny on the fore borders and along the sides 

 of the veins, blackish brown at the base ; veins tawny ; wing-ribs 

 and poisers piceous ; the former having each a tuft of white hairs 

 in the front. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Kev. D. F. Morgan. 



Bombylius subluna, n. s., mas. Niger, pilis albis vestitus, scutello 

 ferrugineo, pectore pilis nigris vestito alboque bifasciculato, ab- 

 domine pilis vestito, dorso albo quinquemaculato, ventre vitta 

 arcuata alba utrinque ornata, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis 

 limpidis basi nigro-fuscis costaque fuscis. 



Body black : front of the head clothed with white hairs : sides 

 of the mouth and eyes piceous : mouth black, half the length of the 

 body : feelers black, beset towards the base with black hairs and 

 bristles : chest thickly clothed with white hairs, which have a tawny 

 tinge on the disk ; breast clothed with black hairs, and having a tuft 

 of white hairs on each side ; scutcheon dark ferruginous, piceous on 

 the base : abdomen clothed with black hairs, and having five spots 

 of snow-white hairs, one on each side at the base, and three in a 

 row along the back ; under-side adorned on each side with a curved 

 stripe, formed by four spots of snow-white hairs : legs black, thinly 

 beset with black bristles : wings colourless, blackish brown at the 

 base, brown along the fore borders for three-fourths of the length 

 and full half the breadth ; wing-ribs piceous, each with a tuft 

 of white hairs in front ; veins tawny ; poisers piceous. Length of 

 the body 7 lines ; of the wings 17 lines. 



a. Odessa. Presented by Dr. Dowler. 



Bombylius flaviceps, Macq. Dipt. Exot. ii. 1, 88, 4, pi. 6, f. 4, pi. 



7, f. 5. 

 a. West Africa. Presented by Sir E. Belcher. 



