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.