Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 211 
Promachus rectangularis, Loew. 
Neue Beitr. ii. p. 5 [1854]; et Zeitschr. f. d. ges. Naturwiss. N. F. viii. 
(xlii.) p. 108 (1878); v. d. Wulp, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1899, 
p- 92, pl. iii. fig. 4 (1899). 
Promachus cinicolor, Walker, ‘The Entomologist,’ v. p. 258 (Hrazx) 
(1871). 
Loew in Zeit. Ges. Naturwiss. suggests that Walker’s 
P. cinctipes is the same as this—the type being lost, this 
question must remain in abeyance, but P. cinicolor, WIk.; 
is the same as the above species and not identical with Loew’s 
P. rueppelli, 
Loew’s species, P. rectangularis, came from Massowah, 
Red Sea, and from Aden. . 
Walker’s type, P. cinicolor, 9, came from Harkeko, 
Dahleck Island, Red Sea. 
Two females from Muscat, Arabia (Lt.-Col. Jayskar). 
Three males from 8. Othman, Arabia (Nurse), 25. ii. 95 
and 8. iv. 95. 
One male from Shendi, 1901, 190 and 187. 
These all answer to Loew’s description, with the exception 
of black bristles on the scutel/um being present five or more 
in number as an inner row bordered on the outside by white 
bristles. Loew speaks of white bristles with occasionally a 
few black ones intermixed. 
Walker’s type has only white bristles. 
Length about 20 mm., as Loew states. 
A species distinguished by a thick white moustache and 
white hairs on head. Scuéellum with long white hairs besides 
the bristles. Legs yellowish red with a black stripe on the 
femora, not always present, and apices of tibiz and tarsi 
black. Genitalia witha thick tuft of white hairs. Oviposiior 
short. 
P. rueppellit is very similar, but has the femora black, 
brown below at apex. 
Promachus flavopilosus, sp. u. 
Type (male) from Mlanje, Nyasaland, 17.xi. 1914 (S. A. 
Neave). 
Type (female) from same locality, 14. x1. 1918, and a long 
series of males and females taken with various beetles, bees, 
and other diptera as their prey; all in the 1. EH. B. Coll. 
A male trom Uganda, 1910 (Capt. A.D. Fraser, R.A.M.C.), 
1911, 198. Males from the Mbali-Kumi Road, 3700 feet, 
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