Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidee. hits 
these are wholly or partly black. Scwtellum with usually 
black bristles (some yellow ones are present in some speci- 
mens) and with white hairs. Legs reddish, usually with a 
short black stripe on under side of femora, apices of femora 
and tibiz sometimes black ; the tarsi appear darker, being 
dark at the joints. Moustache with yellow and black bristles. 
Length, g¢ 16-18, 2 18-23 mm. 
Promachus albicinctus, Ricardo. 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vi. p. 173 (1900). 
Type (male) and type (female) from Pretoria (W. L. 
Distant). 
Two females from Pretoria (Distant). 
One male from Pretoria, 28.x. 1913 (H. K. Munro), 1904, 
263. 
One female from Transvaal, Sept., Nov. 1896 (Young), 
97, 166. 
Male and female from Zululand in Cape Museum Coll. 
Distinguished from P. venerabilis, Wlk., by the black 
antenne, from P. amastrus, W\k., by the black stripe on the 
upper side of femora, it is very similar in general appearance 
to this last species. 
Promachus fulvipes, Macq. 
Dipt. Exot. i. (2) p. 209 [ Trupanea] (1838) ; Loew, Dipt. Siidafrik, 
p. 132 (1860). 
Promachus venerabilis, Wik. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. n, ser. iv. p. 129 
[ Trupanea] (1857). 
From Loew’s detailed description there is little doubt that 
Walker’s species is the same as Macquart’s species, which is 
recorded from South and HK. Africa. 
Walker’s type, a male, came from Port Natal. 
Males from Estcourt, Natal, Sept. and Oct. 1896 (G. A. 
K. Marshall), 1903, 17, and one female. A male from Piet 
Retief, Transvaal, 30.x.1903 (R. Crawshay), 19038, 850. 
One male and one female from Estcourt. One female from 
Krantzkopf, Natal. One male from Mt. Fongosi, Zululand 
(W. E. Jones), in Cape Museum Coll. 
A small neat species near P. amastrus, Wlk., but smaller ; 
the black bristles on the scutellum are mixed with white 
hairs and have occasionally some white bristles. Legs more 
wholly reddish and tarsi reddish, the hairs on the abdomen, 
more especially in the male, are black, not white on the 
black part. The second joint of antenne is yellowish. 
Length 9-15 mm., 17 mm. is given by Loew. 
