442 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 
Oviposttor loug, black, including the seventh and eighth 
segments; end-lamelle free, the seventh segment forming 
the base with some black hairs, the rest of ovipositor com- 
pressed, bare. 
Neodasophrys hirsutus, sp. v. 
Type (male) from Bluff, Durban, 2. v.1917 (C. N. Barker), 
No. 2074 in Durban Museum Coll., and two females; 
another female the same, 30. vi. 1918, No. 2262. 
Type (female), Port Shepstone, Natal, May 1897 (G. A. 
KK. Marshall), 1908, 17. 
A species more pubescent than Neodasophrys natalensis, 
distinguished by the shaded transverse veins of wings and by 
the pale base of tibiz, which are reddish with long reddish- 
brown hairs. 
Length, ¢ 21, ? 18-21 mm. 
Male.—Face bronze-coloured with yellowish tomentum. 
Moustache reaching the antennz, composed of long fine 
black hairs and a few yellow ones below. Palpi with black 
hairs. Antenne almost jet-black, the first two joints with 
short black hairs, the third long with an arista equal in 
length to it. Forehead with long black pubescence. Curved 
bristles black, the hairs round head yellowish, becoming very 
thick and noticeable on the lower half, as in NV. natalensis 
species. Thorax with a broad median black stripe and short 
side-stripes, rest of dorsum covered with yellowish tomentum 
and with short black pubescence ; the thin mane composed 
of black hairs becoming longer and thicker posteriorly and 
with a bunch of yellow hairs in the centre on posterior 
border. Presutural bristles two, supra-alar one, postalar 
three, but all very long and not very stout, and interspersed 
with long black hairs. Scutellum covered with yellowish 
tomenutum and with very thick yellow long hairs, the posterior 
border with black bristles. Abdomen with a deep black spot 
on each segment, bordered with yellowish tomentum, pubes- 
cence on dorsum short, black, on the first segment and at 
sides are long yellowish and reddish hairs, a few black ones 
above; underside with long, silky, yellowish-red hairs. 
Genitalia large, club-shaped, flattened at the ends, identical 
with those of N. natalensis but not so long; pubescence 
black. JZegs with femora black, shining, extreme bases of 
tibiz pale yellow, merging into a pale reddish colour, tarsi 
the same, the last joint blackish ; the pubescence on femora 
