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along the fore borders till near the tips ; the brown eolour occupies 

 rather less than half the surface of the wing; wing-ribs and veins 

 piceous, the latter black towards the tips : poisers tawny. Length 

 of the body 2^ lines ; of the wings 6| lines. 

 a. West Australia. From Mr. Clifton's collection. 



G. The little cross-vein at half the lenyth of the discoidal areolet. 



Bombylius medius, Linn, Syst. Nat. ii. 1009. Faun. Suec. 1919. 

 Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. v. 2902, 2. Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 473, 3. 

 Ent. Syst. iv. 408, 3. Syst. Antl. 129, 5. Mull. Naturs. v. 

 1008. Beg. Ins. vi. 107, 2, pi. 15, /. 12. Schrank. Ins. Austr. 

 1003. Faun. Boic. iii. 2578. Berk. Syn. i. 167. Don. Brit. 

 Ins. v. 5, pi. 146, 1. Stew. El. 274. Turt. iii. 681. Latr. 

 Gen. Crust, iv. 313. Lam. Anim. sans Vert. iii. 407, 2. Fall. 

 Dipt. Suec. Bomb. 10, 2. Meig. Dipt. ii. ]96, 13. Macq. 

 Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 378. Zelt. Dipt. Scand. i. 189, 2. Bomby- 

 lius, Harris, Ex. pi. 47, /. 1. B. major, Sam. Ent. Comp. 

 295, pi. 9, /. 10. Wood, III. Lin. Gen. Ins. ii. 106, pi. 71. 

 B. discolor, Mikan. Monogr. 27, pi. 2, /. 1. Meig. Klass. 

 Zweif.i. 178, I, pi. 10, /. 8. 



a. England. 



b. France. 



Bombylius concolor, Mikan, Monogr. 30, pi. 2, /. 2. Schceff. 

 Icon. pi. 78, f 3. Latr. Gen. Cr. iv. 314. Meig. Dipt. ii. 197, 

 14. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 378, 7. 



a. France ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



b. Albania. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 

 e. ? 



Bombylius intermedius, n. s. Niger, pilis fulvis, setisque nonnullis 

 nigris vestitus, abdominis apice pilis rufescentibus ornato, pedi- 

 bus rufis, antennis femoribusque nigris, alis limpidis fusco de- 

 cem-maculatis necnon basi et ad costam flavo-fuscis. 



Nearly allied to B. medius, but the mouth is a little longer : 

 body black, thickly clothed with tawny hairs, among which a few 

 longer and slender black bristles are scattered, especially towards 

 the tip of the abdomen : head clothed with black hairs, and having 

 some tawny hairs on the front : mouth black, as long as the body : 

 feelers black : eyes piceous : tip of the abdomen adorned with a tuft 

 of reddish hairs : legs red, beset with black bristles ; hips and 

 thighs black, the latter red at the tips : wings colourless, yellowish 



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