Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 175 
femora with black stripes ; the hind pair only black at their 
apices ; fore tibi# black below on the apical half and wholly 
-at apex, the others black at apices, tarsi black; pubescence 
yellowish, short on femora, some long white hairs on the 
tibie, a fringe of yellow appressed hairs on the hind tibie, 
bristles chiefly black. Wings clear, with yellowish veins. 
Female identical. Moustache more yellow than white with 
a few black bristles. Scutellum in some specimens with two 
or more black bristles. Ovipositor with the under lamellz 
joined below to the upper triangular pair. 
Table of Promachus Species from South Africa, 
including the Transvaal, 
1. Legs black, with white hairs. Scutellum 
with whitish hairs and bristles.......... scalaris, Loew. 
Legs reddish ; femora usually with a black 
UCI eB 5 2.4 2b) of aura fod Ba Een Maer 2 2. 
2, Antennze wholly blackish................ 3. 
Antenne with the second joint yellow orred. 4. 
3. Legs with usually a short black stripe on 
under side of femora. Genitalia small. 
Moustache black in male, black and yellow 
Ee AISNE rere A hsts OP aes: isd Sa ees weer amastrus, W1k. 
Legs with the black stripe on upper side of 
femora. Genitalia large. Moustache 
POON ttc s tah fe Baca Ween hey a1 2 ole albicinctus, Ricardo. 
4, Small species. Legs reddish ............ venerabilis, W1k. 
Large species. Legs reddish. Femora with 
a blaek stripe below .o. oie. ccc cs enees'e dorso, W1k. 
Other species from this part of Africa are P. fasciatus, a 
widely distributed species, P. caffer, Macq., a variety pre- 
sumably of the former, with yellow or white bristles on the 
legs and the moustache yellow, described from Kaffraria, 
and P. vagator, Wied., from S. Africa and Somaliland, with 
red-yellow tibiz and long white hairs on the scutellum, said 
by Wiedemann to have the third joint thickened at the top, 
but Schiner declares it to be a true Promachus species. 
Promachas scalaris, Loew. 
Ofvers. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Férhandl. xiv. 1857, p. 359 (1858) ; et Dipt. 
Siidafrik. i. p. 180 (1860). 
Males and females from Karonga, Brit. E. Africa, 7. vii. 
1910 (7. A. Neave), in the Brit. Mus. Coll. 
A male and female from junction Crocodile and Marico 
Rivers, Transvaal, in the Cape Museum Coll. 
In spite of Loew’s type being described as from Kaffraria, 
