Head brown. Antennæ the length of the thorax, which is also brown. Wings nearly transparent. Abdomen black, with four yellow spots placed on the upper side. Legs brown.
I have employed the Fabrician specific name in preference to that precedently employed by Drury, as being more appropriate, there being other species of the genus named 6-maculata and 2-maculata.
BOMBYLIUS PLUMIPES.
Plate [XXXIX]. fig. 3.
Order: Diptera. Section: Tanystoma. Family: Bombyliidæ, Leach.
Genus. Bombylius, Linn. &c.
Bombylius Plumipes. Flavido hirtus, alarum basi costâque brunneis, tarsis posticis basi lobatis. (Long. Corp. 5½ lin.)
Syn. Bombylius plumipes, Drury, App. vol. 2. Wiedemann Auss. Zw. Ins. 1. 351.
Habitat: Jamaica.
Head brown; and from the mouth extends a very slender proboscis, through which the insect obtains its food; being almost as long as the whole body. Antennæ short, and like hairs. Wings transparent, but along the anterior edges brown. Legs long, the hinder ones furnished at the base of the tarsi with two remarkable flaps.