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side-bristles also yellow; mane composed of black hairs 
bordered with shorter yellowish hairs ; there are no long 
outstanding bristles; all the bristles are yellow on posterior 
part of thorax. Scutellum covered entirely with thick 
yellowish-orange and whitish-yellow long hairs. Abdomen 
bronze-coloured with grey tomentum at sides and at apex, 
covered with whitish and yellowish hairs ; on the underside 
they appear chiefly white. Genitalia elongated, the upper 
forceps deeply indented, the lower fork being the longest, 
the upper one short, obtuse, same colour as abdomen with 
yellow and white pubescence, below with chiefly black hairs. 
Legs bronze-coloured, shining with thick yellow pubescence 
on both sides of the two anterior pairs of tibize ; femora with 
long whitish pubescence, the hind pair armed beiow with a 
row of short, stout, black bristles, the hind tibiz with long 
fine yellowish hairs and five or more very stout red bristles 
above and shorter black ones below near apices ; fore tarsi 
with long yellow bristly hairs and a few black bristles 
below, the middle ones the same, the hind tarsi with fewer 
yellowish-red bristles. Wings clear, small transverse vein 
very oblique and situated about two-thirds of length of 
discoidal cell from the base. 
Female identical. Moustache darker. Abdomen with grey 
tomentum at sides of segments, more noticeable towards the 
apex ; pubescence does not appear so thick as in the male. 
Ovipositor black, shining, short, not much longer than the 
last segment. 
Loew’s Division Il. 
Abdomen with bristles before the segments. 
Ti: 
No bristles on the underside of abdomen. 
Dysmachus congoensis, sp. 0. 
Type (male) from Lualaba River, Congo, 15.5.07, 2500— 
4000 ft., type (female) from same locality (Neave Coll.), 
1907, 230. Other males and one female from same locality. 
A species with no apparent bristles on the underside of 
abdomen, and the strong white ones above are not numerous. 
Moustache black above and yellowish white below. Legs 
blackish, metallic with rather long pale yellow pubescence 
and black and yellow bristles. Scutellum with yellow hairs 
