Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 387 
Male.—Face covered with glistening white tomentum. 
Moustache large and thick, composed of black and white 
hairs intermixed. Beard white. Antenne black, the first 
two joints with stout black bristly hairs; the arista long. 
Forehead with white hairs. The curved bristles are weak, 
black, but fairly long. Thora# bronze-coloured with lighter 
tomentum and some short white pubescence ; the mane is 
large, composed of fairly thick short black hairs and many 
long outstanding bristles; a few longer white hairs are 
visible on the posterior part of thorax at the sides and also 
intermixed with the mane, but not forming a noticeable 
white stripe. Scutellum with a double row of black 
bristles, about four in each, and with long white hairs 
each side and in centre; hardly tuft-like. Abdomen black 
covered with brownish-grey tomentum and with fairly 
thick short white pubescence; the bristles chiefly white in 
a double row, one on the top of the other; underside with 
longer thick white pubescence and weaker white bristles. 
Genitalia almost equal in length to the last two segments, 
stout at base, tapering to a point, covered with white pubes- 
cence; the lower pair of forceps very short. Legs bronze- 
coloured, with white pubescence and longer white hairs on 
femora and tibiz ; middle and hind femora with white bristles, 
otherwise all bristles are black. Wings clear, the small 
transverse vein on the last third of the discal cell towards 
apex. 
Female identical. Abdomen better preserved, shows a 
large brownish-black spot on each segment, the white 
bristles longer and three-deep. Ovipositor short. 
Dysmachus transvaalensis, 3, sp. 0. 
Type (male) and another male from Bloksberg, Johannes- 
berg (C. H. Pead), 1907, 250, in Brit. Mus. Coll. 
A small species with short white pubescence on the body 
and legs and many white bristles on the abdomen both above 
and below; distinguished from D. spiniventris, Loew, by the 
reddish colour of the tibize and tarsi. Scutellum with white 
hairs and bristles. Mane white posteriorly. Moustache 
whitish. 
Length 9 mm. 
Face with silvery-white tomentum at sides. Moustache 
large, extending the whole length of face, yellowish white 
with only a very few black hairs intermixed. Antenne black, 
with thick black bristly pubescence on lower side of the first 
two joints. Forehead with yellowish tomentum, a bunch of 
