LIST OF DIPTERA. 277 



disk clouded with brown ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 5 

 lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. 



a. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



Bombylius, ruficeps, Macq. Dipt. Exot. ii. 1, 88, 5, pi. 7, /. 5. 



a. South Africa. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



b. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



c. South Africa ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Bombylius tinctus, n. s., fem. Niger, pilisfulvis nigrisque vestitus, 

 subtus cano alboque pilosus, scutello thoracisque lateribus rufo- 

 pilosis, antennis nigris, pedibus ferrugineis, basi costaque nigro- 

 fuscis. 



Head black, and clothed with long black hairs above and 

 in front, and with short red hairs about the base of the feelers, hoary 

 and clothed with white hairs behind and beneath ; hypostoma tawny : 

 eyes red, with a bronze tinge : mouth black, a little shorter than the 

 chest : feelers black, as long as the head ; first joint thickly beset 

 with hairs ; second joint short; third joint slightly tapering from 

 the base to the tip, longer than the first and the second ; fourth 

 joint very small: chest rich brown, clothed with short reddish 

 brown hairs, and having a stripe of white hairs on each side ; scutch- 

 eon adorned with red hairs: breast and under-side of abdomen 

 hoary, and clothed with white hairs, the former having a tuft of red 

 hairs on each side by the base of the wing : abdomen black, clothed 

 with tawny hairs and with black. bristles, which are most frequent 

 towards the tip : legs ferruginous, clothed with white hairs and 

 black bristles, the latter chiefly on the shanks ; feet pubescent, 

 piceous towards the tips : wings slightly gray, blackish brown at the 

 base and along the fore borders ; the dark colour occupies less than 

 half the surface, its border is not clearly defined, and it blends im- 

 perceptibly with the gray ; wing-ribs and veins piceous, the latter 

 black towards the tips ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 3 lines ; 

 of the wings 10 lines. 



E. The little cross-vein somewhat beyond one half of the length of the 

 discoidal areolet. 



Bombylius diagonalis, Hoffmansegg, Meig. Dipt. ii. 189, 4, vii. 6, 

 7. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 377, 2. Gim. Bull. Soc. Imp. 

 Nat.Mosc. 1847, 1,216,1. 



