Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidee. 181 
pale yellowish ; the femora and tibiz with yellow pubescence, 
thickest and brightest in colour on the fore legs, lower side 
of tibize with black short hairs ; middle and hind femora 
armed with black bristles, those on the tibice and tarsi strong 
and numerous. Wings clear, with grey streaks on apex on 
fore border. 
Female identical. Ovipositor short. 
Prumachus adamsti, Ricardo. 
Promachus flanbarbis, Adams, Kansas Uniy. Sci. Bull. iii. p, 152 
(1805), nomen bis lectum, 
Females from Kabulumiro, Uganda, 1909 (Col. Sir D. 
Bruce, A.M.S.), 1909, 83; Bululu, Uganda, 6.i1.1911 (C. 
C. Gowdey), 1914, 7; Nyasaland, Nov. 1892 (H. H. John- 
ston), 94, 12; Uchweni Forest near Witu, British E. Africa, 
25-27. 1. 1912 (S. A. Neave), 1912, 193; three females 
from Valley of Kafu River, Unyoro, 3400 feet, 23-28. xii. 
1911 (S. A. Neave), 1912, 193, all in Brit. Mus. Coll. 
Males and females in coitu, from Uchweni Forest near 
Witu, 25-27. xi. 1912 (S. A. Neave), in I. E. BE. Coll. 
These species answer in every particular to Adams’s 
description. He described one female from near Fort 
Salisbury, Rhodesia, and gives the length as 27 mm. 
The two black bristles on the scutedlum are only present 
in one or two of the above specimens. Ovipositor of female 
long, composed of three segments. Genitalia of male black, 
shining, the forceps large, club-shaped, ending in broad 
flattened apices, with no projections or teeth; the lower 
lamellz short and small, the border of the under part of 
last segment produced with yellow and black hairs ; pubes- 
cence on genitalia black, with tufts of white hairs above. 
Length, ¢ 21-23, ? 25-27 mm. 
Promachus ugandiensis, sp. 0. 
Type (male) from Semliki Plains near south shore of Lake 
Albert, 2200 feet ; Uganda (S. A. Neave), 1912, 193. 
Type (female) from Kotakota, Nyasaland (Dr. J. S. Old), 
191], 221. 
A male from 150-200 miles west of Kambove, 3500-4500 
feet; Uganda (S. A. Neave), 1907, 230; amale from Blantyre, 
Nyasaland (Dr. J. S. Old), 1912, 401, and a female. 
A species with a yellowish moustache and black bristles 
on the scutellum, the first two joints of the antennz reddish. 
