56 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidee. 
black pubescence ; the eighth ventral segment small and 
very slightly produced, fringed with fairly long pale hairs. 
Legs yellowish; the femora blackish on their outer sides, all 
covered with short white pubescence; the fore femora with 
cnly soft yellowish hairs above and below, the middle pair 
with at least four black bristles and two at the apex, soft 
yellow hairs below, the posterior pair with four bristles 
below, one above, two near apex and two at the apex, and 
soit yellow hairs below ; tibiz with chiefly black pubescence 
on the first pair aud a fringe of appressed reddish hairs on 
under surface ; on the other tibiz it is chiefly whitish, all 
with numerous black bristles. Vi ings clear, shading at apex 
and on posterior border faint, the small transverse vein is 
just beyond the middle of the discal cell. 
Female is identical, the bristles on the seutellum only four 
in number; ovipositor short, blackish; femora more largely 
black on their outer sides, and the tibiz have also a black 
streak ; the tarsi blackish at their apices; some of the bristles 
on legs are yellowish. The male is very probably immature, 
so that others may be found with the femora as in the 
female. 
Machimus ugandiensis, § 9, sp. 0. 
Type (male) and another from Mpanga Forest, Toro, 
400 feet; Uganda, 18-28 Nov.,1911 (S.A. Neave), 1912, 193: 
other males from Uganda Protectorate 8. of Lake George, 
3200-8400 feet, 17-19 Oct., 1911; from Dara or Durro 
Forest, Toro, 4000-4500 feet, 25-29 Oct., 1911; and from 
Buamba Forest, Semliki Valley, 2800-2800 feet: all by the 
same collector. 
Type (female) from Mpunga Forest, others from Mabira 
Forest, Chagwe, 8500-8800 feet; from Buamba Forest, 
from between Seziwa River and Kampala, 8500-8750 feet ; 
from Western Ankola, 4500-5000 feet, 10-14 Oct., 1911; 
and from Brit. E. Africa, edge of forest on S. and E. slopes 
of Kenya, 6000-7000 feet : all by the same collector. 
‘This species is apparently nearly allied to Machimus 
caudiculatus, Speiser, from German EK. Africa, but the 
description of the latter (not a very full one) describes the 
legs as vellowish grey on the fore tibize and tarsi and on 
the whole hind legs, being covered with close-lying yellow 
pubescence—in this species the legs are black and not clothed 
with these hghter hairs. 
Length, ¢ 1445-16, 9 15-175 mm. 
Male. —Face with colden- yellow tomentum. Moustache 
