290 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



it is white: eyes green, with a bronze tinge: feelers black, like 

 those of B. crassus, gray at the base : mouth black, rather shorter 

 than the chest, dark ferruginous at the base : chest and abdomen 

 clothed with orange hairs, which are longest, brightest, and thickest 

 on each side of the tip of the latter, where they are mingled with 

 black hairs : under-side hoary, and clothed with pale yellow hairs ; 

 scutcheon red ; a stripe of pale yellow shining hairs on the back of 

 the abdomen : legs bright tawny, clothed with short yellow hairs, 

 and beset with a few red bristles : wings rather dark gray, having at 

 the base a ferruginous tinge, which may be slightly traced along the 

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

 wards the tips ; poisers tawny, with brighter tips. Length of the 

 body 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Sydney, New South Wales. Presented by Dr. A. Sinclair. 



Bombylius pinguis, n. s., mas. Cinereus, pilis rufo-albidis vestitus, 

 scutello ferrugineo, abdomine pilis fulvis nonnultisque nigris 

 longioribus vestito, antennis nigris basi cinereis, pedibus rufis, 

 femoribus plerumque nigris, alis cinereis basi fulvis. 



Body gray : head hoary, clothed with reddish white hairs, hav- 

 ing a tuft of black hairs on the crown, and another of tawny hairs on 

 the front, while long black and reddish hairs are mingled with the 

 white hairs which cover the under-side: eyes piceous : feelers black, 

 nearly as long as the head ; first and second joints gray ; second 

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

 from the base to the tip, longer than the first and tire second : 

 mouth black, half the length of the chest : chest clothed with red- 

 dish white hairs ; scutcheon ferruginous : breast clothed with yel- 

 lowish white hairs : abdomen clothed with tawny hairs, which are 

 thickest on each side, and longer black hairs are scattered among 

 them, especially towards the tip ; under-side mostly clothed with 

 whitish hairs : legs red, covered with yellow hairs and black 

 bristles ; hips, knees, fore thighs, and middle thighs for two-thirds 

 of the length, and hind thighs at the base black : wings gray, tawny 

 at the base, and along the sides of the veins on the fore borders ; 

 this tinge disappears at the tips and along the hind borders : wing- 

 ribs and veins piceous, the latter darker towards the tips ; poisers 

 tawny. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 11 lines. 



a. Swan River. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



