Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 437 
appears black with brownish tomentum, with some long 
black bristles and with rather thick black pubescence on the 
dorsum ; underside thickly clothed with black bristles and 
hairs. Genitalia short and stout, testaceous at apex, other- 
wise black with some white hairs above and black hairs 
below arranged in tufts. Legs black, the knees and base of 
anterior tibiz dull testaceous, all bristles black and the 
pubescence black, longer on undersides of femora and tibiee. 
Wings clear, a little tinged with yellow along the veins. 
Female identical. Moustache with more white hairs. 
Abdomen with traces of white hairs on the second segment 
and with long ones on the underside. Legs have some short 
white pubescence on underside of fore tibize and on under- 
side of hind femora. 
Note by collector as follows: ‘Taken on the bare wind- 
swept mountain-top, almost the only living insect.—R. C.” 
Loew’s Division II”. 
Mane not extending the whole length of thorax. 
Dysmachus albopilosus, sp. n. 
Type (male) from Howick, Natal (J. P. Cregoe), 1903, 
212; and other males in Brit. Mus. Coll. 
Type (female) from Willow Grange, Natal (2. C.Wroughton), 
in I. K. E. Coll., and other females from same locality ; also 
from Howick and from Estcourt, Natal, Sept., Oct., 1896 
(G. A. K. Marshall), 1903, 17, in B.M. Coll. 
A species distinguished by the short genitalia of males 
and the short ovipositor of females. Mane white posteriorly, 
all hairs and bristles on scutellum white and most of the 
bristles on the legs white or yellow, and on the abdomen 
the same eolour. Legs almost wholly metallic bronze- 
coloured. Distinguished from Loew’s species, D. setiventris, 
by the absence of black bristles on the seutellum and the 
tibize are not brown. 
Length, ¢ 13-16, 2 13-18 mm. 
Male.— Face covered with pale yellowish tomentum., 
Moustache composed of chiefly yellow hairs, with black hairs 
at the sides, but none near the oral aperture, fairly thick, 
reaching the antennz. eard white. Antenne with the 
first two joints blackish with black bristles, the third wanting. 
Forehead with some black hairs and bristles. .The curled 
