384 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidee. 
and bristles only; the posterior border of thorax also with 
weak yellowish bristles each side of the median stripe. 
Mane of not very long black hairs with few outstanding 
bristles. 
Length, ¢ 15-17, 2? 15 mm. 
Male.—Face covered with glistening yellowish tomentum. 
Moustache composed of long yellowish hairs, bordered with 
black ones, reaching the antenne. Beard white. Antenne 
with the first two jomts blackish, the third wanting. Fore- 
head with long stout black bristly hairs, the curled bristles 
behind long and black; below them in the centre are 
numerous yellowish hairs. Zhorax blackish covered with 
yellowish-brown tomentum and a well-marked median stripe 
and short side-stripes; pubescence very scanty, blackish, 
the three supra-alar bristles are yellow. Scutellum with long 
weak yellow bristles and shorter hairs. Abdomen blackish 
with a large dark brownish spot on each segment, sides with 
grey tomentum ; pubescence on dorsum is short but rather 
thick, yellow in colour; underside with straggling long 
whitish hairs. Genitalia large, stout, black, and shining, the 
under pair of pincers proceeding immediately from the 
under black plate are short, obtuse, testaceous, these and 
the-upper pair with long yellow pubescence, a few black 
hairs intermixed. Legs with the posterior femora thickly 
covered with short whitish-yellow pubescence, and longer 
hairs below, strong yellow bristles on underside, and a few 
black ones above ; middle and anterior pair with less pubes- 
cence ; tibiz with long and short yellow hairs and black 
bristles, those on the fore pair chiefly long, yellow, and weak ; 
fore tarsi with some yellow bristles. W2ngs clear, shaded at 
apex and on posterior border, the small transverse vein below 
the middle of the discal cell. 
Female identical. Hind tibiz with some yellow bristles. 
Dysmachus flavopilosus, sp. 1. 
Type (male), type (female) from Willow Grange, Natal 
(W. C. Wroughton), in 1, E. E. Coll. 
Other males and females from Howick, Natal (J. P. Cregve), 
1904, 46, in Brit. Mus. Coll. 
One male and one female from Mfongosi, Zululand 
(W. E. Jones), and Krantzkopf, Natal, in the Cape Coll. 
Males and female from Pretoria, 28.12.1912 (H. K. 
Munroe), 1914, 263. 
There are bristles on the abdomen, but none below; in 
