Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 443 
consists of long fine black hairs; fore coxe with thick 
yellowish hairs, the cthers with black hairs; the tibiz with 
long reddish hairs below and at sides, on the fore and hind 
pairs agood many black hairs appear ; hind tibie with black 
bristles; tarsi with black hairs and bristles. Wings shaded 
brown on fore border, at apex, and in the centre of cells, 
transverse veins shaded brown, venation as in N. natalensis. 
Female identical, but the hairs on /egs not so long or thick, 
and chiefly black, in the type those on the fore and middle 
tibie are yellowish, and the fore tibie have a fringe of 
appressed orange hairs below; the hind femora with some 
shorter white hairs above, in another female the hairs on 
fore tibiz are wholly black. Ovipositor as in N. natalensis, 
but barely as long as the three preceding segments. 
Neodasophrys androclea, Walker. 
Type (male), in, bad condition, from S. Africa (Dr. Smith), 
44,6. Malefrom Umbilo(d. Z. Bevis), 1916. Female from 
Megwavuma, Zululind, March 1917 (#.W. Baxter), both in 
Durban Museum Coll. 
A species nearly allied to Neodasophrys hirsutus, but 
smaller and with clear wings. 
Length, g 17, 9 21 mm. 
Male.—Scutellum with long yellowish-red bristles on its 
posterior border. In all other respects similar to Neo- 
dasophrys hirsutus. 
Female.—Tibiee with chiefly long yellowish hairs on each 
side on the middle pair, and black and yellow on the others. 
Ovipositor about as long as the three preceding segments. 
Murcaprituvs, Bigot. 
Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser, 3, v. p. 545 (1857). 
This genus is only distinguished from Dysmachus by the 
first posterior cell of wing being closed. 
Megadrillus brevipennis, g 3 , Macq. 
Dipt. Exot. i. p. 180 (1838) [Zophonotus]. 
Dysmachus elachipterus, Loew, Dipt. Siid-Afrik. i. p. 163 (1860) ; 
Schiner, Novara Reise, Diptera, p. 186 (1868). 
One male from Ceres Div., Matroosberg, 2500 feet, in 
Cape Museum Coll. 
