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Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidee. TF 
Type (female) from same locality, 16. 5.1908 (S..4.Neave). 
Other males and females from Sualaba River, 2500-4000 feet, 
19, 4. 07, ete. (S. A. Neave), 1907, 230, and males from 
kambove, Katanga, 4000-5000 feet, 2. 4. 07 (S. A. Neave), 
1907, 230. 
A species with a dusky or yellowish-brown abdomen, 
wholly yellowish-red legs and antenne, white moustache, 
aud genitalia of male bright reddish yellow. 
Length, g¢ 16-17, 2 16-18 mm. 
Male.—fuce black, covered with yellowish or white 
tomentum in well-preserved specimens. Moustache com- 
posed of numerous white bristles and often two or more 
Dluck bristles. Palpa black, with yellowish bristly hairs. 
Beard yellowish. Antenne yellowish red with some black 
hairs on the first two joints. Occipital bristles on head 
yellowish, continuing as finer whiter hairs round head to 
beard. Thorax in type discoloured black and red, but in 
otier specimens covered with yellowish-brown tomentum 
and with two faint nairow brown stripes ; preesutural, supra- 
alar, and postalar bristles all two in number and blac k, as 
are the few central and side bristles; dorsum also covered 
with some fine blackish hairs. Scutelldum same colour as 
thorax, with two black bristles. Abdomen blackish, but 
covered with yellowish-brown tomentum, with strong yellow 
bristles on the posterior borders of segments aud below ; 
dorsum with rather thick, fine, short, yellow and black pubes- 
cence. Legs with chiefly stout black bristles, yellow ones 
are present on the apices of fore tibiz and on the under 
surface of the other tibiz, and on the fore tarsi, also below 
the femora, which are devoid of the stout black bristles on 
the tront pair, having only weak yellow bristles below; pubes- 
cence on legs chiefly consists of short black hairs, some 
vellow ones on sides of tibie, especially the hind pair, 
Wings clear, with small transverse vein be 2yond the middle 
of the discal cell, the posterior branch of the third vein with 
a very pronounced bend in the middle. Genitalia of male 
are long, with black fine hairs. 
Female is identical, tlie black bristles on moustache at 
upper part and sides are always present and more numerous, 
but the yellow bristles on the legs are = numerous and 
hardly present on the fore legs; the ovipositor is black, not 
so long as the last two segments together. 
Heliymoneura africanus, 2, sp. 1 
Type eke and two others, from Magadi, Brit. E. Africa, 
April 1912 Ce. G. Hamilton), 1915, 37, 4. 
