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Moustache of yellow stiff bristles, three black bristles near 
oral aperture. Palpi with black and yellow bristly hairs, 
often with only white or yellow hairs and no black ones at 
apex. Antenne dull reddish, the first two joints with white 
pubescence, the third joint short, the arista more than 
double its length. Forehead with first yellow, then black 
hairs. Hind part of head with short stout black bristles 
intermixed with white hairs. Thorax reddish brown with 
grey tomentum and chiefly black pubescence; bristles 
posteriorly very stout, with long black hairs between. Scu- 
tellum covered with greyish-yellow tomentum and with 
stout black bristles on its posterior border, and others on 
dorsum, and with sparse short white pubescence. Abdomen 
with the usual black spots and grey bands, on which last are 
short white bristly hairs, and longer white bristles at sides ; 
pubescence on the spots black and at sides. Genitalia blue- 
black, shining, the upper forceps long and stout, club-shaped, 
the lower lamellee very short, in one specimen coloured red, 
with loug black hairs below and chiefly yellowish ones 
above; the underside of the last segment not fringed with 
black hairs nor produced as in P. negligens. Legs dull red, 
but the femora blackish below and often partly so above, 
tarsi blackish; legs with short white pubescence, most 
noticeable on the tibiz and tarsi. Wings large, clear, with 
reddish-yellow veins. 
Female identical. Ovipositor long, composed of the sixth, 
seventh, and eighth segments. 
Promachus negligens, Adams. 
Kansas Univ. Sci. Bull. iii. p. 154 (1905). 
The type was described as from near Fort Salisbury, 
Rhodesia. 
Males and females from Mt. Mlanje, Nyasaland (S. 4. 
Neave), in I. E. E. Coll. 
Males and females from west of Kambove, 3500-4000 feet 
(S. A. Neave), 1907, 230; also from Kasama District, N.E. 
Rhodesia, Oct. 1904 (R. L. Harger), 1905, 79, in Brit. Mus. 
Coll. 
A very large black species with grey bands on the abdo- 
men. Scutellum with black bristles and white hairs. Legs 
dull red, apices of femora and tibize blackish. Moustache 
yellow, with some black bristles above. 
Length given by Adams as 26-31 mm., but some of these 
measure as much as 35 mm, 
