Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidee. 7: 
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Neoitamus africanus, 2, sp. n. 
Type (female) and two other females from edge of forest 
on 8. and FE. slopes a ee 6600-7000 = Brit. E. Africa 
(S. A. Neave, Feb. : PROLI 191 pa7 
A large bla Hees species, measuring hae 22 mm., distin- 
enishel by the wholly black moustache. Tubercle ‘of fane 
lirge, but not reaching the antenne. Thorax with not very 
numerous black bristles on its dorsum; the preesutural 
bristles consist of two very stout ones and two finer ones. 
Scutellum has six or more bristles on its posterior border. 
Abdomen (somewhat denuded) appears blackish with chiefly 
black pubescence, a few yellow hairs are apparent at sides 
and on the segmentations ; ovipositor long, including the 
sixth and seventh sestnents, in length about equal to the 
three preceding segments together. Legs black, apices of 
fore femora reddish ; tibie almost wholly reddish, as are the 
basal joints of the fore and middle tarsi ; ; the fore tibiz have 
a thiek short fringe of rufous hairs on their lower side, the 
middle and hind pair have hardly any long hairs; pubes- 
cence elsewhere black, with stout black bristles. Winys 
palebrown, clear at base, the discal cell almost wholly clear ; 
veins dark brown, the small transverse vein beyond the 
middle of the discal cell. 
Hetiemonevra, Bigot. 
Thoms. Archiv. Entom, ii. p. 356 (1858), 
Mochtherus, Loew, Linn, Ent. iv. p. 58 (1849) [preeoce. Schmidt, 
Goebel Coll., 1846). 
Neomochtherus, Ost.-Sack. 
Oriental and Ausiralian Regions. 
This genus is very shzhtly represented in these regions. 
Wulp described three species under Mochtherus, viz., 
Heligmoneura gnava, patruelis, and striuta,from the Indian 
Archipelago, Java, and the Celebes, and one species H. lauta 
mae New Guinea. In the Annals & Mage. Nat. Hist. (8) 
.p. 423 (1913), I removed Asilus lascus, Walker, to this 
ei, a species recorded from New Zealand. 
. Two new species are now described. 
Feligmoneura gnava, V. d. Wulp. 
Tijd. v. Ent. (2) vii. (xv.), p. 242 [ Mochtherus] (1872). 
Females from Kandy, Ceylon (7. EH. Green) 1910, 415, 
