LIST OF DIPTERA. 285 



Bombylius nitidulus, Fair. Ent. Syst. iv. 409, 8. Syst. And. 132, 

 15. Meig. Dipt. ii. 202, 22, pi. 18, /. 5, 6. Macq. Hist. Nat. 

 Dipt. i. 382, 19. Gim. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1847, 1, 

 222, 14. B. Diadema, Meig. Klass. Zweif. i. 182, 8. B. cau- 

 datus, Meig. Klass. Zweif. i. 184, 12. 



Bombylius hypoleucus, Wied. Dipt. Exot. i. 168, 15. Auss. Zweif. 



i. 340, 16. 

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



Bombylius stylicornis, Macq. Hist. Nat. Ins. Dipt. i. 381, 18. 



Dipt. Exot. ii. 1, 92, 14, pi. 7, /. 2. 

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



Bombylius latifrons, Macq. Webb, et Berth. Hist. Nat. des Carr. 



Dipt. Exot. ii. 1, 94, 20, pi. 6, /. 6, pi. 7, /. 2. 

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



Bombylius hircanus, Pallas, Wied. Zool. Mag. ii. 22. Dipt. Exot. 



i. 166, 11. Auss. Zweif. i. 338, 12. 

 a. ? 



Bombylius pallidulus, n. s., mas. Niger, pilis flavis vestitus, ca- 

 pite supra pilis fuscis ornato, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, 

 tarsis piceis, alis limpidis. 



Body black, very thickly clothed with pale yellow hairs, which 

 are longer on the abdomen than on the head and on the chest : head 

 covered with pale silky down, having some black hairs on the crown, 

 and clothed with pale brown hairs on the front : eyes bronze : mouth 

 as long as the chest; lip black : feelers black ; first joint linear; 

 second joint not half the length of the first ; third joint tapering 

 from the base to the tip, a little longer than the first: legs pale 

 tawny, clothed with very short hairs of the same colour ; feet pi- 

 ceous, tawny at the base : wings colourless ; wing-ribs and veins 

 ferruginous, the latter piceous towards the tips ; poisers pale tawny. 

 Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



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



