170 Miss G. Ricaido on the AsiliJai. 



be found. Eight new species are now described. The 

 Oriental Region is also rich in specimens, five new species 

 are now described and one from Australia wrongly placed 

 by me nuder P. interjioticns, Wlk., in a former paper. Many 

 of the specimens dealt with in this genus and in Dysmachus 

 are in tlie Imperial Entomological Economic Collection. 



Table for Species of Promachus //-om West Africa. 



1. Abdomen with tuft-like hairs very apparent on 



basal segments. Legs usually blackish 2. 



Abdomen with no such tufts. Leg^s reddish . . 4. 



2. Hairs on the tliree lirst segments of abdomen 



yellow robertU, Macg. 



Hairs on the three first segments of abdomen 

 ■white 3. 



3. Moustache black find -white or black and yellow. 



Femora chielly black. Scutellura with black 



bristles ftisciatut, Fabr. 



4. Genitalia of male with tuft of wliite hairs. 



Moustache yellow or white 5. 



Genitalia of male with no such tuft. Moustache 

 black and white 6. 



5. Last segment of abdomen ])roduced below slightly 



in male. Ovipositor with two acute points at 

 apex. Scutellum with yellow hairs and bristles, sh^psont, sp. n. 

 Smaller .species. La.st segment of abdomen pro- 

 duced triangularly. Ovipo.sitoi with no spines. 

 Scutellum with white hairs .• rufescens, sp. n. 



6. Abdomen with short yellowish-white pubescence. 



Scutellum with 3ellow hairs and usually yellow 



bristles jyoetinus, "Wlk. 



The following species described from this region of Africa, 

 not included in the table, are : P. trichozoims, Loew, in the 

 P. fasciatus group, with yellow pubescence on the forehead; 

 P. mediospinosus, Speiser, in the same group with the whole 

 underside of thorax and alxlomen bright yellowish-red 

 haired ; P. (/uineeiisis, Wied., moustache snowy white, 

 genitalia with tuft white hairs, scutellum with white hairs 

 and bristles — a large s))ecies, measuring 26 mm.; ? Asi/us 

 scutellatus, Macq., and Asi/us ulbitarsutus, Macq., both of 

 which probably belong to the genus Proviachits — the latter 

 has the style of antennae a little swollen at the end, and 

 might therefore belong to the genus Philomachus^ the former 

 is described as having pale yellow legs and the posterior 

 part of thorax and the scutellum testaceous red. 



Promachus roberlii, Macq. 



Dipt. Exot. i. (2) p. 211 (1838); ]>oow, ])ipt. Siiclafrik. i. p. 127 

 llsGd), 



