182 Miss G. Ricarclo on the Asili(la\ 



Genitalia slender, reddish below. Ovipositor of female 

 long. 



Length, S 21-22, 9 22-25 mm. 



AJale. — Face yellowish, eovered with silvery-white toraen- 

 tnm. Moustache of yellow hairs, reaching the antennw. 

 Palpi with yellow hairs. Anteniue with a short third joint 

 and long arista, the first two reddish joints with chiefly 

 white hairs. Forehead with black hairs at sides and a very 

 few yellow ones. Hind part of head with chiefly stout 

 yellow bristles. Thorax brownish red, with grey tomeutum 

 and black pubescence and bristles^ some white hairs at sides 

 and posteriorly. Scutellum reddish, with grey tomeutum, 

 chiefly black bristles, and white hairs. Abdomen with short 

 yellow puliescence, some black hairs intermixed on the black 

 spots. Genitalia very similar to those of P. brevipennis, sp. n., 

 but the under lamellae are testaceous, ^hort, and stout ; the 

 under side of the last segment is reddish and produced to a 

 triangle and covered with short white liairs, the testuceous 

 part with white hairs, the upper forceps with chiefly black 

 Iniirs, the tuft of white hairs is represented by only a few 

 white hairs, the upper forceps are almost bifid at apices ; in 

 one male the hairs on triangular produced segment are 

 largely black. Legs reddish yellow, the femora with a black 

 stripe ; pubescence thick, white ; bristles black. Wings 

 clear, not very long. 



Female identical. Ovipositor includes the seventh and 

 eighth segments, and is about as long as the last two seg- 

 ments together. 



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Promachus abdominalis, sp. n. 



Type (male) from Mt. Mlanje, Nyasaland, 7. xii.l9I2, 

 and other males [S. A. Neave). 



Tvpc (female) from Uchweni Forest, near Witu, 25-27. 

 xi. 1912 {S. A. Neave), and males all in I.E.E. Coll. 



One female from Chiromo^ Nyasaland, Ruo lliver (/?. C. 

 JVood) (1916). 



Three males and two females from 150-200 miles west of 

 Kambove, 3500-4500 feet {S. A. Neave), 1907, 230. 



A species nearly allied to P. negligens, Adams, but some- 

 what smaller, and the genitalia in male are quite different, 

 being longer and more slender and with no white tuft above. 



In the female the much longer ovipositor will distinguish 

 it at once. 



Length, S 28, ? 24 mm. 



Male. — Face honey-yellow with some grey tomcntum. 



