Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 173 
long strong yellow bristles forming a doublerow. Abdomen 
with the usual dark spots and yellow bristly hairs on the 
posterior borders of segments and on the first segment ; 
hairs on the spots black, at sides yellow. Genitalia black, 
slender, club-shaped, the under lamelle small but nearly 
half the length of the upper ones, the underside of the last 
segment produced somewhat and fringed with short black 
and yellow hairs. Pubescence on genitalia black, with a 
tuft of white hairs above. Legs xanthine-orange, with short 
white or yellow pubescence and black bristles; the black 
colour is confined almost wholly to the apices of femora 
and tibiz, but the tarsi are wholly black, fore and middle 
coxee each armed with one black bristle. Wings clear with 
reddish-yellow veins. 
Female identical, but the pubescence on the black abdo- 
minal spots is yellow. Ovipositor about the length of the 
last segment. 
Promachus rufescens, sp. 0. 
Type (male) from Sierra Leone, 58-166, and another 
male. 
Type (female) from Moyamba, Sierra Leone, Feb. 26 
(G. C. Dudgeon), 1906, 67. 
This species might possibly be identical with Asilus 
scutellatus, Macq., described from Senegal. A small blackish 
species with reddish-yellow legs, reddish thorax, and scu- 
tellum covered with greyish-yellow tomentum. Genitalia 
with a very small tuft of white hairs. 
Hensth,. 4 to, 9 V7‘mm: 
Male.—Face covered with glistening yellow tomentum. 
Moustache of scanty yellowish hairs. Palpi black with 
yellow bristles. Beard white. Antenne black. Forehead 
with black hairs. Hind part of head with black bristles, 
some yellow ones intermixed. Thorax brownish with darker 
stripes; shoulders, sides, and posterior part of dorsum 
reddish, covered with yellowish tomentum ; pubescence 
black, some yellow hairs at sides ; bristles black. Scutellum 
reddish with yellowish tomentum, and covered with fairly 
numerous long whitish hairs, one or two black bristles 
present. Abdomen reddish, with whitish-yellow tomentum 
and the usual large black spot on each segment ; pubescence 
black, whitish on the light parts; underside paler, with 
white hairs. Legs reddish yellow, the femora with a black 
stripe above and darker altogether ; pubescence on legs 
white, thick ; bristles black, with yellow ones intermixed on 
