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and more slightly so along the fore borders for three-fourths of the 

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

 the tips ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 

 16 lines. 



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



Bombylius crassus, n. s., fem. Cinereus, pills flams vestitus, an- 

 tennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, alis cinereis, basi costd maculisque 

 quatuor nigro-fuscis. 



Body gray, thickly clothed with pale yellow hairs : eyes dark 

 red : feelers black, as long as the head ; first and second joints 

 thickly clothed with yellow hairs; second joint much shorter than 

 the first; third joint much longer than the first and the second, 

 spindle-shaped for two-thirds of its length, linear thence and very 

 slender to the tip : mouth black, half the length of the body ; max- 

 illae yellow; hypostoma tawny: legs tawny, clothed with yellow 

 hairs and black bristles ; hips gray ; feet black towards the tips : 

 wings gray, blackish brown at the base and along the fore borders 

 to the tips, which are paler ; four small blackish spots cloud the 

 veins in the gray of the wings ; wing-ribs and veins piceous, the 

 latter black towards the tips ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 

 4 — 5 lines ; of the wings 10 — 12 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



M. The little cross-vein somewhat before one-third of the length of 

 the discoidal areolet. 



Bombylius scutellatus, Macq. Dipt. JExot. ii. 1, 94, 18, pi. 7,f. 2. 

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



One wing of the specimen of this species has the areolet at the 

 tip of the wing subdivided by a little cross-vain. 



Bombylius cephalotes, n. s., fem. Niger, pilis fulvis subtus palli- 

 dioribus vestitus, capitis vertice pilis nigris fasciato, antennis 

 nigris, pedibus fulvis, femoribus nigris, alis subcinereis, basi et 

 ad costam fulvis. 



Eesembles B. hircanus. Body black : head very broad, thickly 

 clothed with long tawny hairs, and having a band of black hairs 

 between the eyes ; under-side clothed with white hairs : eyes pi- 

 ceous : mouth black, much shorter than the chest : feelers black ; 

 third joint slightly tapering from the base to the tip, shorter than 

 the first and the second joints : chest thickly clothed with rather 

 dark tawny hairs ; breast clothed with white and pale yellow hairs, 



