236 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidee. 
African region, and, judging from the many new species met 
with in the collections I have had access to, there must be a 
large number of species still to be described. The only 
other Region with species of this genus is the Palzarctic. 
I have not been very successful in identifying Loew’s species, 
but little of the material is from the Cape, whence most of 
his species came—they are inserted in the table after the 
descriptions, which may afford some help in their identifica- 
tion in the future. 
The Walker types belonging to this genus are the fol- 
lowing :— 
D. abuntius, D. aphellas, D. amazenes, D. isse, D. noas, 
and D. mivatus (which latter is placed wrongly in Apoclea in 
Kertesz’s Cat.), D. pheax, and D. ladon. 
D. pheeax is the only one I have been able to identify—it 
appears to be the same as Dysmachus auribarbis, Macq. 
All the others are in such a dirty and imperfect condition 
it is impossible to identify them in any way—it would be 
advisable to delete them from the list of specimens in this 
genus. 
D. ladon, type, appears to be lost, it is not in the Brit. 
Mus. Coll. 
The species in the following table marked with a * are 
all known to me and represented in the Brit. Mus. Coll. 
Table of Dysmachus Species. 
Loew’s Division I. 
No bristles before the segments of abdomen. 
i, 
Mane extending the whole length of the thorax. 
1. Scutellum with tufts of snow-white hairs. 2. 
Scutellum with no such tufts............ 3. 
2, Tibiz reddish at base. Genitalia large with 
white and black pubescence .......... *suillus, $ 9, Fabr. 
Genitalia reddish with white pubescence, 
anellast, Adrican Species 46.64.6645 sac ees nanus, 3, Bezzi. 
3. Large species. Moustache mostly yellow. : 
Smaller species. Moustache black and 
yellow eriwhiten! <.aiii. siete schon: thee 7h 
A, Tibia reddish at base, scutellum with yellow 
hairs and black bristles .............. 5. 
Tibize honey-yellow or yellow, scutellum 
with hairs and bristles yellow or fox-red. 6. 
5. Moustache wholly yellow. Genitalia long 
BndUBlOMT GENE Gh, 0). ss ie tA ee ee *auribarbis, § 2, Macq. 
Moustache partly black. Genitalia club- 
shaved S20 tries ahi d,)s ba peer ae *chalcogaster, S 2, Wied. 
