392 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilides. 
Dysmachus wroughtoni, sp. n. 
Type (male), type (female), and other males and females 
from Willow Grange, Natal (R. C. Wroughton), in I. E. E. 
Coll.; and one male from Ulundi, Natal, 5000-6000 feet, 
Sept. 1896 (G. A. K. Marshall), 1903, 17. 
A small greyish species. Abdomen with a black central 
stripe. Mane all black with the exception of an admixture 
of pale reddish hairs on the anterior half, but with a fine 
side-stripe of white tomentum on the posterior half and 
white tufts of hairs on the scutellum. Legs blackish; tibize 
partly reddish. Moustache black with a mixture of reddish- 
yellow and white hairs. Genitalia of male long. 
Length, g 15, 9 12-13 mm. . 
Male.—Face glistening white, the moustache very large, 
reaching to the antennz; in the type the hairs are largely 
reddish yellow and white at their apices, with the black 
hairs in the centre. Beard white. Antenne blackish, the 
arista short, the first and second joints with very long, stout, 
black, erect hairs on their under sides and shorter reddish 
hairs on their upper sides. Forehead darker than face, with 
many erect black hairs. The black curved bristles on hind 
part of head are long, with white hairs behind them and 
round head. Thorax armed with a very distinct mane, from 
which numerous long black bristles proceed in the whole 
length, the reddish hairs intermixed with the black are not 
very noticeable ; dorsum with chiefly short, fine, dirty white 
or yellow pubescence, the sides with grey tomentum; the 
three presutural bristles are yellow, the two supra-alar and 
two postalar bristles black, the narrow white stripes of 
tomentum are only visible in certain lights. Scutellum 
same colour as thorax, with reddish-yellow fine hairs and a 
double row of stout black bristles on its border, besides the 
white tuft of hairs on each side. Abdomen with greyish- 
yellow tomentum, with a well-marked narrow black central 
stripe and traces of dark spots on the sides, the first 
segment with thick white hairs, the dorsum with short 
yellowish sparse pubescence and stout yellow bristles on 
posterior borders and sides of segments, the underside with 
long white hairs, only a few of the yellow bristles are 
visible here. Genitalia bronze, shining, with fairly long 
yellowish-white pubescence ; the forceps are long, simple, 
their apices simple ending in an obtuse point with black 
hairs. Legs bronze, shining, with whitish short pubescence ; 
the femora stout with some long yellowish hairs and with 
