380 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidze. 
Length 15 and 16 mm.: 
Face covered with silky yellowish tomentum. Moustache 
reaching to the autennze, composed of snow-white soft hairs, 
surrounded by black bristly hairs. Palpi with black hairs. 
Beard snowy-white. Antenne black, the first two joints with 
very long black bristly hairs below and shorter ones on their 
upper sides. Forehead with usually long black hairs. Hind 
head with weak white hairs at vertex curling over and black 
stout bristles also curling over, beyond these the hairs round 
head are soft and pale-coloured. Thorax bronze-coloured 
with whitish tomentum and short whitish pubescence, the 
mane thick and composed of long black hairs with which 
are intermingled short white hairs, becoming longer pos- 
teriorly but still leaving the centre with black hairs, the 
usual stout bristles on sides of dorsum are weak, chiefly 
whitish, some very long. Scutellum covered with long 
white hairs becoming more bristly on the border, these hairs 
are not disposed as white tufts. Abdomen bronze-coloured, 
with thick rather bushy white hairs on the first three 
segments, less bushy beyond, but still present as short 
white pubescence, and hairs at sides are pale-coloured; the 
usual dark spots are present on each segment, with greyish 
tomentum at sides; under side with soft whitish hairs. 
Genitalia black, shining, with white hairs, below disposed as 
snowy-white tufts; forceps short but stout and wide, two- 
pronged with obtuse teeth. Leys bronze-coloured with white 
hairs ; the fore and middle tibize honey-yellow above for two- 
thirds of their length, and black underneath, the hind pair 
chiefly yellow at their base only ; the two anterior pairs of 
femora and tibiz with long white hairs on each side, the 
hind legs with fewer but with stouter longer black bristles ; 
the fore tibiz with three white bristles at their apices and 
the middle pair with three on their outer side, fore and 
middle tarsi with some white bristles, the hind pair with. 
only black ones. Wings greyish, with yellow veins, the 
small transverse vein beyond the middle of the discal cell. 
Dysmachus tarsalis, sp. un. 
Type (male) and other males from Willow Grange, Natal 
(R. C. Wroughton), in I. E. KE, Coll. 
A small species, to be recognized by the dull reddish or in 
some specimens reddish-yellow tibiz, which have a black 
stripe on the inside, and by the wholly light-coloured tarsi. 
Abdomen with a dark large spot on each segment. 
Scutellum with yellow hairs only. 
