278 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Bombylius inornatus, n. s., fern. Niger, abdomine ferruyineo vitta 

 dorsali nigra, antennis nigris basi ferrugineis, pedibus ferru- 

 gineis, genubus tarsisque piceis, alis subcinereis, basi et ad costam 

 fulvis. 



Body black : head clothed with ferruginous hairs : mouth and 

 feelers black ; the former more than half the length of the body ; the 

 latter ferruginous at the base; first joint moderately long ; second 

 joint short; third joint linear, nearly twice the length of the first : 

 chest and breast clothed with a few tawny hairs ; the latter covered 

 with a slight hoary bloom: abdomen ferruginous, with a black 

 stripe on the back ; this stripe is much dilated at the base of the 

 abdomen, and somewhat less so on the borders of the second seg- 

 ment : legs ferruginous, thinly beset with short hairs and bristles ; 

 knees and feet piceous, the latter pubescent ; wings slightly gray, 

 tawny along the fore borders, and especially towards the base ; 

 wing-ribs and veins ferruginous, the latter piceous towards the tips ; 

 poisers yellow. Length of the body 4i lines ; of the wings 1 1 

 lines. 



a. 



F. The little cross-vein at Jive-eighths of the length of the discoidal 

 areolet. 



Bombylius Servillei, Macq. Dipt. Exot. ii. 1, 88,3, pi. 7, /. 5. 

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



Bombylius nanus, n. s. Niger, pilis fulvis rufisque vestitus, pectore 

 albo piloso, abdomine pilis flavis rufisque vestito subtus cano, an- 

 tennis nigris apice piceis, femoribus flavis, tibiis ferrugineis, 

 tarsis piceis, alis subcinereis, basi et ad costam fuscis. 



Body black, thickly clothed with bright tawny and red hairs : 

 a tuft of black bristles on the crown of the head, whose front 

 is thickly clothed with shining pale yellow hairs : feelers nearly as 

 long as the head ; first and second joints black, and thickly beset 

 with black bristles ; second joint much shorter than the first ; third 

 joint piceous, spindle-shaped, nearly as long as the first and the se- 

 cond ; fourth joint very small, with two or three bristles at the tip : 

 mouth black, shorter than the chest : eyes piceous : breast clothed 

 with white hairs : abdomen with alternate bands of bright pale yel- 

 low and red hairs : under-side hoary : legs slightly clothed with 

 bristles and hairs ; thighs yellow, having a ferruginous stripe from 

 near the base to the tips, which like the shanks, are also ferru- 

 ginous ; feet piceous ; wings slightly gray, brown at the base and 



