Miss G. RIcardo on the Asilidfr. 177 



tlicse are wholly or partly black. ScntelJum with usually 

 black bristles (some yellow ones are present in some speci- 

 mens) and with wliite liairs. Lecfs reddish, usually with a 

 short black stripe on niulor side of femora, apices of femora 

 and tibiic sometimes black ; the tarsi appear darker, being 

 (lark at the joints. Moustache with yellow and black bristles. 

 Length, S 16-18, ? 18-23 mm. 



Promachns albicinctus, Ricardo. 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vi. p. 173 (1000). 



Type (male) and type (female) from Pretoria [JF. L. 

 Distant ). 



Two females from Pretoria (Distant). 



One male from Pretoria, 28.x. 1913 {H. K.Munro), 1904, 

 263. 



One female from Transvaal, Sept., Nov. 1896 (Younr/), 

 97, 166. 



Male and female from Zuhiland in Cape Museum Coll. 



Distinguished from P. venerabilis, Wlk., by the black 

 antennae, from P. amastrus, Wlk., by the black stripe on the 

 upper side of femora, it is very similar in general appearance 

 to this last species. 



Promachus fulvipes, Macq. 



Dipt. Exot. i. (2) p. 209 [Trupanea] (1838); Loew, Dipt. Slidafrik. 



p. 132 (1S60). 

 Promachus venerabilis, Wlk. Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. n. ser. iv. p. 129 



[Ty-iipanea^ (1857). 



From Loew's detailed description there is little doubt that 

 Walker's species is the same as Macquart's species, whicli is 

 rec(n"ded from South and E. Africa. 



Walker's type, a male, came from Port Natal. 



Males from Estcourt, Natal, Sept. and Oct. 1896 (G. A. 

 K. Marshall), 1903, 17, and one female. A male from Piet 

 Relief, Transvaal, 30. x. 1903 (R. Crawshay), 1903, 350. 

 One male antl one female from Estcourt. One female from 

 Krantzkopf, Natal. One male from Mt. Fongosi, Zululand 

 (W. E. Jones), in Cape Museum Coll. 



A small neat species near P. amastrns, Wlk., but smaller; 

 the black bristles on the scutcllum are mixed with wliite 

 hairs and have occasionally some wliite bristles. Lec/s more 

 wholly reddish and tarsi reddish, the hairs on the abdomen, 

 more especially in the male, are black, not white on the 

 black part. The second joint of anteniue is yellowish. 



Length 9^15 mm., 17 mm. is given by Loew. 



