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and the sides having hairs of an intermediate colour : abdomen also 

 thickly clothed with long dark tawny hairs, which form tufts on each 

 side and at the tip, where they are most mixed with long black 

 hairs ; the under-side has on each side of the base a thick tuft of 

 shining pale yellow hairs : legs tawny, beset with bristles of the 

 same colour ; hips and thighs black ; tips of the latter tawny ; feet 

 darker than the shanks : wings slightly gray, tawny at the base and 

 along the fore borders ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous, the latter 

 piceous towards the tips. Length of the body 3| lines ; of the wings 

 10 lines. 



Bombylius solitus, n. s. Niger, pilisflavis vestitus, capite pilis ni- 

 gris vario, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, tibiis apice piceis, tar- 

 sis nigris, alis limpidis. 



Body black, thickly clothed with shining pale yellow hairs, 

 which are longest on the abdomen : crown of the head and clypeus 

 beset with black hairs : eyes very dark red : mouth much longer 

 than the chest; tips black: feelers black ; first and second joints 

 linear ; second joint about half the length of the first ; third joint 

 spindle-shaped for two-thirds of the length, thence to the tip com- 

 pressed and linear, and ending in a spine : legs tawny ; thighs and 

 shanks clothed with short pale yellow hairs, and armed with black 

 spines ; tips of the shanks piceous ; feet black, clothed with short 

 black hairs and bristles : wings colourless ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; 

 veins piceous, ferruginous at the base, black towards the tips ; poi- 

 sers pale tawny. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 8 

 lines. 



a. Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



ff Discoidal areolet open. 



Bombylius altus, n. s., fern. Cinereus, pilis fulvis et nonnullis ru- 

 fis nigrisque vestitus, subtus albo pilosus, antennis nigris, pedi- 

 bus ferrugineis, tarsis piceis, alis cinereis basi et ad eostam 

 fulvis. 



Body gray : head clothed with tawny hairs, and having a few 

 black hairs on the crown ; under-side thickly covered with white 

 hairs : feelers and mouth black, the latter about half the length of 

 the chest : chest very thickly covered with short tawny hairs, which 

 are paler on each side as they approach the white hairs of the 

 breast ; the sides are also adorned with red hairs, and a few red and 

 black hairs are scattered over the chest and the breast : abdomen 



