Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidoe. 235 



His joe, Japan : another from hills near Kobe, Japan (Hon, 

 E. Scarlett), 1900, 189 ; another from Japan, 61, 128. A 

 female from Yokohama District (//. Prior), 1901, 13; 

 another from Japan (l^ascoe Coll.), 93, GO. 



Coqnillet records 4 males, 4 females, from Japan. His 

 species is the same as this. 



A species closely allied to Promachiis anicius, Wlk., but 

 the scutelluin has no black bristles and is covered by dense 

 yellow hairs ; the ovipositor is composed of the last two 

 segments of abdomen and is blue-black, shining. The 

 genitalia has a much thicker tuft of white hairs extending 

 over the sides and nearly coveriui;' the upper forceps. The 

 hairs on the abdomen appear to be more numerous, especi- 

 ally on the underside, and are all yellow. 



Length, ^ 12-16, ? 28 mm. 



Philomachus, Karsch. 

 Berl. ent. Zeit. xxxi. p. 376 (1887) [prseocc. Gray, Aves, 1851]. 



A genus established for one species, distinguished by the 

 third joint of antennae ending in a flat knob, from E. Africa. 



Pliilomachus rhopalocerus, Karsch. 



Berl. ent. Zeit. xxxi. p. 375 (1887). 



Philoviachut hijpoleuoochcBttis, Bezzi, Aim. Soc. Ent. Belg. 111. p. 379 

 (1908). 



A male from Mt. Fongosi, Zululand {W. E. Jones), and 

 males and females from Kimberley, Nov. 1913, in the Cape 

 Museum Coll. 



A medium-sized species with an almost wholly white or 

 yellowish moustache. Scutel/um with black bristles and 

 white hairs. Genitalia with a tuft of white hairs above, 

 below with a large black shining point produced from the 

 underside of the last segment of abdomen, exactly similar 

 to those of species of the genus Machimus. Legs reddish 

 witli darker iemora, which have long white pubescence on 

 both sides ; tibiae have long fine blackish hairs below. 



Length 15-20 mm. 



Bezzi's species from Banana and Mayumbe, Congo, is 

 evidently the same ; he describes the moustache as white 

 mixed with a few black bristles. 



DysiMachus, Loew. 



Dipt. Siidafrik. i. p. 1-13 (18G0). 



Lojihonotus, Macq. L)ipt. Exot. i. (2) p. 241 (1838) [prteocc. Stephen, 

 Lepid., 1829]. 



This genus is very strongly represented in the South 



