Miss G. Ricardo on the AsiliMoe. 211 



Promachus rectangularis, Loew. 



iS'eue Boitr. ii. p. 6 [1854]; et Zeitschr. f. d. ges. Naturwiss. N. F. viii. 



(ilii.) p. 108 (1873); v. d. Wulp, Traus. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1899, 



p. 92, pi. iii. fig. 4(1899). 

 Promachm cinicolor, Walker, ' The Entomologist,' v. p. 258 {Erax) 



(1871). 



Loew in Zeit. Ges. Naturwiss. suggests that "Walker's 

 P. cinctipes is the same as this — the type being lost, this 

 question must remain iu abeyance, but P. cinicolor, A\Mk., 

 is the same as the above species and not identical with Loew's 

 P. rueppelU. 



Loew's species, P. rectangularis, came from Massowah, 

 lied Sea, and from Aden. 



Walker's type, P. cinicolor, $ , came from Harkeko, 

 Dahleck Island, Red Sea. 



Two females from Muscat, Arabia {Lt.-Col. Jayskar). 



Three males from S. Othmau, Arabia (Nurse), 25. iii. 95 

 and 3. iv. 95. 



One male from Shendi, 1901, 190 and 187. 



These all answer to Loew's description, with the exception 

 of black bristles on the scutellum being present five or more 

 in number as an iuner row bordered on the outside by white 

 bristles. Loew speaks of white bristles with occasionally a 

 few black ones intermixed. 



AYalker's type has only white bristles. 



Length about 20 mm., as Loew states. 



A species distinguished by a thick white moustache and 

 white hairs on head. Scutellum with long white hairs besides 

 tiie bristles. Legs yellowish red with a black stripe on the 

 femora, not always present, and apices of tibiae and tarsi 

 black. Gbnitalia witli a thick tuft of white hairs. Ovipositor 

 short. 



P. rueppellii is very similar, but has the femora black, 

 brown below at apex. 



Promachus flavopilosus, sp. u. 



Type (male) from Mlanje, Nyasaland, 17. xi. 1914 {S. A. 

 Neave). 



Type (female) from same locality, 14. xi. 1913, and a long 

 series of males and females taken with various beetles, bees, 

 and other diptcra as their prey; all in the I.E.E. Coll. 



A male from Uganda, 1910 {Cujjt.A.J).Fruser,R.A.M.('.), 

 1911, 193. Males from the Mbali-Kuuii Road, 3700 feet. 



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