388 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 
white hairs on each side and long black hairs beyond, the 
curled-over bristles black and long, a bunch of white hairs 
at vertex between them, and hairs round head white. 
Thorax bronze-coloured with sparse white pubescence; the 
mane of long outstanding bristles and thick black hairs 
inside, posteriorly these hairs are white; bristles at sides 
whitish, long, the dorsal bristles on posterior part of thorax 
chiefly black, and longer white hairs are present here. 
Scutellum with tufts of white hairs on its black dorsum and 
long yellowish-white bristles on the posterior border. Adbdo- 
men with grey tomentum and thick whitish pubescence, the 
yellowish-white bristles on dorsum are about four deep on 
each segment; underside bristles with them and has short 
white pubescence. Genitalia short, stout, chestnut-brown, 
club-shaped with square ends, deeply notched below, lower 
surface with thick whitish hairs and above with shorter 
white pubescence ; under lamelle short with long whitish 
hairs. Legs blackish with the bristles largely white, the 
anterior and middle tibiz and tarsi of an obscure reddish 
colour, the hind pair only so at their extreme base ; the fore 
femora with stout black bristles below and some whitish 
hairs and one or more white bristles on their upper surface, 
the middle pair with chiefly white bristles above and black 
ones below, the hind pair with white and black bristles; the 
tibize with long yellowish hairs below and long stout yellow 
bristles, the fore pair with some black bristles on their upper 
surface ; tarsi all reddish, armed with chiefly white bristles ; 
pubescence on legs thick, white. Wings clear, veins yellow. 
Dysmachus albofasciatus, Ricardo. 
Ann. & Mag. Nat, Hist. (7) vi. p. 178 (1900). 
Type (male) and another male from Pretoria (W. L. 
Distant), and males and females from Estcourt, Natal, Sept. 
and Oct. 1896 (G. A. K. Marshall), 1906-17, and one 
female from Ulundi, Natal, 5000-6500 feet, by the same 
collector. 
A species measuring 15} mm. 
Dysmachus leucotenia, Bezzi, 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. xxxvii. p. 286 (1906) [Lophonotus]. 
Two males from Victoria Falls, Zambesi, July 1914 
(Miss J. Brincker), 1915, 125, and one female; one male 
from Mfongosi, Zululand (W. #. James), in Cape Coll. 
