Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilides. ETE 
The description of this species is very meagre, as follows:— 
Black. Head white. Abdomen with the three anterior 
-segments yellow-haired. Tibi externally chestnut. Wings 
reddish. 
Length, ?, 16 mm. 
Thorax denuded, sides with ashy-grey tomentum. Coxe, 
femora, and tibiz with whitish hairs below. Wings with a 
grey streak in the first submarginal cell. 
From Senegal. 
Females from Sierra Leone (W. G. Clements), 93, 20; 
Freetown, 20.ix.1899 (H. EH. Austen) ; Kumasi, Ashanti ; 
W. Africa, 23.v.1907 (Dr. W. M. Graham), 19 8, 245 ; 
Ruwe, Lualaba R., Congo Free State (Dr. Yale Massey), 
1906, 98; Unyoro, 3400 feet ; Uganda, 11-15. xii. 1911 ; 
W. shores of Victoria Nyanza, Buddu, 3700 feet; Toro, 
Daro or Durro Forest, 4000-4500 feet (all S. A. Neave), 1912. 
12.3; and one female from ‘lero Forest, Uganda, 4.v. 1911 
(C. C. Gowdey), 1914, 7, answer on the whole to this descrip- 
tion, though they are larger, and the white hairs on legs 
are replaced by bright yellow hairs. 
The following description is given for identification :— 
A large robust species with practically black legs and 
bright yellow pubescence on abdomen and legs, belonging 
to the P. fasciatus group. 
Length, ?, 22-28 mm. 
Female.—Face blackish covered with yellow tomentum. 
Moustache of yellow and black hairs. Palpi with yellow 
and black hairs. Thorax with black pubescence and bristles. 
Scutellum with yellow hairs and weak black bristles. Addo- 
men black, with bright yellow hairs on the first three seg- 
ments and on the sides of the others ; ovipositor very short; 
underside with bright yellow hairs. Legs black, the chest- 
nut colour of tibisee is hardly noticeable ; coxze and femora 
with long bright yellow hairs; tibiz with shorter similar 
ones, and also with black hairs, the hind pairs with black 
hairs only ; the middle femora are incrassate, armed with a 
bunch of numerous black bristles, the fore pair with only 
a few black hairs, the hind pair with short black bristles. 
Wings streaked with brown. 
Promachus fasciatus, Fabr. 
Syst. Ent. p. 793 (Astlus} (1775); see Kertesz, Cat. for further 
references. 
Promachus equalis, Loew, Dipt. Stidafrik. i. p. 127, pl. i. fig. 50 
(1860). 
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