78 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidee. 
A yellowish-brown species with blackish antenne, white 
and black moustache, reddish-yellow legs with black ‘stripes 
on the tibiz ; ovipositor short aud black, not including the 
seventh segment. 
Length i 14 mm. 
Fuce covered with dirty yellowish-white tomentum; tubercle 
distinct ; moustache composed of white bristles with half a 
dozen or so fine black bristles above. Antenne dark-coloured, 
both the two basal joints with strong black bristles ani 
hairs, the third joint is wanting in all the specimens. Fore- 
head with yellow tomentum and with black bristles on each 
side. Occipital bristles black, hairs round head white. 
Beard white. Palpi black with white hairs. Thorax blackish 
brown covered with yellowish tomentum and with two 
distinct dark brown stripes and shorter side-stripes; pre- 
sutural, supra-alar, and postalar bristles all black and two in 
number, central bristles long and stout with short bristl s 
running up to the shoulders ; pubescence chiefly consists of 
short black hairs. Scutellum with two long white bristles. 
Abdomen blackish brown, covered with y ellow ish-grey tomei- 
tum, with yellowish bristles on posterior borders of segments 
at sides aud below, and with short yellow pubescence, Legs 
with black stripes on all the femora on the inner dorsal 
surface covered with fine white pube-cence, and with yellow 
bristles at apex and below; tibiz blackish at apex, with 
yellow bristles; tarsi largely black with black bristles; pubes- 
cence on legs black and short. W. ings clear, the posterior 
branch of third vein with only a very moderate curve, small 
transverse vein about the middle of the discal cell. 
Feligmoneura natalensis, 3 2, sp. n. 
Type (male) from Marley Kloof, Natal, and others from 
Natal and Mfongosi, Zululand. 
‘Type (female) “from Karkloof, Natal, Feb. 1897 (G. 4. K. 
Marshall), 1903, 17, in Brit. Mus. Coll. ., aud other females 
from Natal ; and Mfongosi, Zululand (WW. EH. Jones). 
A species differing from Heligmoneura africanus by the 
black bristles on the scutellum and black bristles on the 
legs; it is also larger on the whole. 
Length, 6 16-i7, 2? 14-18 mm. 
Male. — Face dark, covered with whitish tomentum; the 
tubercle bearing black bristles above and yellowish ones 
below, forming the moustache, with short black bristles 
below. Pal ‘black with black hairs. Beard scanty, white. 
Antenne black. Forehead the same as face, wiih black 
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