378 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidee. 
Male.—Face with fairly thick yellow or orange moustache 
reaching theantennze. Palpi blackish with chiefly black hairs. 
Antenne blackish brown, the first two joints with black hairs 
and at least one yellow one on underside, the arista long and 
stout. Forehead covered with hairs a little lighter in colour 
than those of moustache. The curled bristles yellow, not 
stout, difficult to distinguish from the many yellow hairs 
round them, continued round head. Thorax bronze-coloured 
with greyish tomentum and short black pubescence, a few 
yellow hairs interspersed ; the mane consists of black hairs, 
some longer than others, but outstanding bristles are absent, 
the four preesutural bristles are yellow with shorter ones 
round them, the supra-alar and postalar are black and 
yellow and more numerous than usual. Scutellum covered 
with thick long yellow or orange hairs, and the same-coloured 
bristles on posterior margin. Abdomen appears blackish 
brown with soft reddish-yellow pubescence and the same 
below; there are traces of yellowish tomentum on dorsum. 
Genitalia black, shining, stout, the upper pincers large with 
two points widely separated, the upper one club-shaped, 
obtuse, and short; the lower one slender and much longer, 
with yellow and black hairs, also below, but a tuft of orange 
hairs appears on the black under-plate in the centre. Legs 
blackish, the femora with fairly long yellowish pubescence 
and stout black bristles on the middle and hind pair ; tibiz 
almost honey-yellow, the apices of middle and hind pair 
black, the fore tibiz with long yellow hairs and many long 
yellow bristies, the middle pair with black bristles but many 
weak yellow ones, the hind pair with black bristles and two 
or more yellow ones, the yellow hairs present but not so 
thick on the two hind pairs ; tarsi with black bristles. Wings 
clear, the middle transverse vein very oblique, situated on 
about two-thirds of the length of the discal cell. 
Female identical. Abdomen covered with greyish-yellow 
tomentum and yellowish pubescence, the ovipositor short, 
black. 
Dysmachus leoninus, Schiner. 
Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xvii. p. 402, 106 [Zephonotus] (1867). 
The type was described from the Cape, measuring 
12-13 mm. 
One ? from Caledon, Cape Colony (K. H. Barnard), 
1916, in Cape collection. It measures 21 mm. 
Easily distinguished by the short fox-red pubescence on 
