444 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidee. 
This species was described by Macquart from an unknown 
locality. Loew’s species from the Cape is evidently the same. 
This specimen in the Cape Museum Coll. answers to 
Macquart’s description, which is as follows :— 
‘** Black, white-haired. Wings short, the first posterior 
cell closed. Length 7 lines, 3. 
“‘ Face, moustache, and beard white. Abdomen cylindrical, 
with a black triangular spot on each segment. Legs with 
black bristles. Wing a little brownish.” 
A pretty little species with a snow-white moustache, mane 
posteriorly white, with short black hairs anteriorly and out- 
standing black bristles along its whole length. Scutellum 
with the white mane continued in the centre and a tuft of 
white hairs on each side, the posterior border armed with 
four stout, long, black bristles. Genitalia small, black with 
white pubescence. 
Length 13 mm. ; 
Lophonotus heteroneurus, Macq., now in this genus, is 
described as having a large brown spot on wings with a 
black mane, and is from the Cape. 
Dasorurys, Loew. 
Ofvers. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Firhandl. xiv. 1857, pp. 362 & 366, 29 
(18658). 
This genus was formed by Loew for his species D. longi- 
barbis from Kaffraria. The genus is near Dysmachus, but 
distinguished from it by the long Jéamus-like ovipositor in 
the female, and by the widening of the wing on fore-border 
of the male. The face has an indistinct tubercle reaching 
the antenne. Schiner described another species, Dasophrys 
personatus, from the Cape, and Asilus nigricans, Wied., has 
been placed in this genus, also from the Cape; neither of 
these species is known to me. 
Dasophrys paron, Walker. 
List Dipt. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 450 [Asius], 1849, et vii. Suppl. 3, p. 714 
[Lophonotus] (1855); Loew, Dipt. Siid-Afrik. i. p. 146 (1860) 
[ Lophonotus |. 
Dasophrys longibarbus, Loew, Dipt. Siid-Afrik. i. p. 166 (1860). 
Walker’s type (male) from 8. Africa (Dr. A. Smith), 44-6. 
Two males and five females from Junction Blaaw Krantz 
and Tugela River, Natal, Oct. 1896 (G. A. K. Marshall), 
1903, 17. 
