Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 235 
Hisjoe, Japan ; another from hills near Kobe, Japan (Hon. 
E. Scarlett), 1900, 189 ; another from Japan, Gi, 128,"- A 
female from Yokohama District ty Prior), 1901, 13 ; 
another from Japan (Pascoe Coll.), 93, 60. 
Coquillet records 4 males, 4 females, from Japan. His 
species is the same as this. 
A species closely allied to Promachus anicius, W1k., but 
the scutellum has no black bristles and is covered by dense 
yellow hairs; the ovipositor is composed of the last two 
segments of abdomen and is blue-black, shining. The 
genitalia has a much thicker tuft of white hairs extending 
over the sides and nearly covering the upper forceps. The 
hairs on the abdomen appear to be more numerous, especi- 
ally on the underside, and are all yellow. 
Length, ¢ 12-16, 2 28 mm. 
Puitomacuus, Karsch. 
Berl. ent. Zeit. xxxi. p. 375 (1887) [praoce. Gray, Aves, 1851}, 
A genus established for one species, distinguished by the 
third joint of antenne ending in a flat knob, from E. Africa. 
Philomachus rhopalocerus, Karsch. 
Berl. ent. Zeit. xxxi. p. 875 (1887). 
Philomachus hypoleucochetus, Bezzi, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. lii, p. 379 
(1908). 
A male from Mt. Fongosi, Zululand (W. E. Jones), and 
males and females from Kimberley, Nov. 1913, in the Cape 
Museum Coll. 
A medium-sized species with an almost wholly white or 
yellowish moustache. Scutellum with black bristles and 
white hairs. Genitalia with a tuft of white hairs above, 
below with a large black shining point produced from the 
underside of the last segment of abdomen, exactly similar 
to those of species of the genus Machimus. Legs reddish 
with darker femora, which have long white pubescence on 
both sides ; tibiz have long fine blackish hairs below. 
Length 15-20 mm. 
Bezzi’s species from Banana and Mayumbe, Congo, is 
evidently the same; he describes the moustache as white 
mixed with a few black bristles. 
Dysmacuus, Loew. 
Dipt. Siidafrik. i. p. 148 (1860). 
Lophonotus, Macq. Dipt. Exot. i. (2) p. 241 (1838) [preeoce, Stephen, 
Lepid., 1829], 
This genus is very strongly represented in the South 
