210 Miss G. Ricardo on the AsilMft. 



The male is at once distingiiisliod l)y the triangular en- 

 largement of the last segment of the abdomen below, fringed 

 by a tuft of blaek hairs ; genitulia reddish. The female 

 ovipositor proper is short, only the lengtii of the preceding 

 segment, but the last two segments (or at least the last one) 

 are usually con) pressed. 



It is a species with reddish leys, the femora Mith a blaclc 

 stripe; pubescence on legs short and white, bristles usually 

 black. Moustache yellowish with a few black hairs above. 

 Scniellnm with yellow hairs, occasionally a black bristle or 

 two appear. 



Length, ^ 18-20, ? 20-25 mm. 



Promuchus brevipennis^ sp. n. 



Tvpe (male) and two other males from Valley of Kafu 



River, Unvoro, 3400 feet, 23-28. xii. 1911 {S. A. Nenve), 



3912, 193. 



A species distinguished by the short wings and by the 



snowy-white moustache. Legs nearly wholly reddish. 



Genitalia slender, with a white tuft o! hairs. 

 Lengtii 23 mm. 

 Face blackish with grey tomentum. Moustache of rather 



silky-white hairs continued to base of antenna^ thick. 



Palpi with long white hairs. yi///ew«tf with the third joint 



uniting, the first two joints slender, with chiefly white hairs. 



Forehead with black hairs, ami a few white ones on its 

 posterior border. Hind part of head with stout black 

 bristles, continued round head, and then with white hairs. 

 Thorax blackish, with grey tomentum and blaek pubescence, 

 and long black bristles in centre beginning before the mid- 

 line of dorsum, weak long ^vhite hairs are present on 

 posterior part and at sides. Scutc/luui with a double row 

 of stout yellow bristles and long white hairs. Abdomen 

 long and slender, the pubescence chiefly yellow, but souie 

 blaek hairs on the spots and whitish l)ristles on the sides ; 

 underside with yellow pubescence, the last segment with 

 white hairs. Genitalia composed of simple club-shaped 

 forceps, the under lauulla; about half their length, all black, 

 shining, with black haiis, the tuft of white hairs above thick 

 and reaching beyond the middle of the forceps. Lcr/s with 

 the apices of femora and tibi.i^ and all the tarsi black ; 

 pul)eseencc white, thick on the tarsi. IViuys naching about 

 us far as the fifth seg4ncnt of abdomen. 



