Miss G. Ricar.lo on tfic Asilihc 239 



Moustftche yellow and black. 



Soiitelliim with white hairs and ei<,'ht 



black bristles. Ovipositor voiy short. 



Legs black, tibi.T biowu setiventris, 2 , Loew. 



Mane white posteriorly. Scutelluni with 



white hairs and bristles. Genitalia and 



ovipositor short. liOjjfs bronze-frreen . . albopilosus, cf $ , sp. n. 

 M;ine yellow and black, very scanty.. Scu- 



telliiin witli yellowish hairs and bristles. 



Genitalia large, and long. Legs wholly 



blackish n!(jripes, cJ $ , sp. n. 



The following species are not included in the table owing 

 to insufficient descriptions. 1 have not been al)le to identity 

 any of Macquart's species except Dysmachus tilnalis : — 



Dysmachus comatiis, Wicd., Dysmachus incisurali^, gemcu~ 

 latus, Haviharbis, forcipatus, albibnrbis, 7'ufus, Macquart, all 

 from the Cape of Good Hope. 



Dysmachus dahius, Bczzi, from Somaliland, probably does 

 not belong to this genus, as he himself doubts, remarking it 

 lias not the crested mane. 



hoeivs Division I. 

 No bristles before the segments of abdomen. 



l\ 

 Mane extending the whole length of the thorax. 



Dysmachus suillus, Fabr. 



Syst. .\ni\. p. 168,19 [Dasypoyon] (1805); see Kertersz's Cat. for 

 further i-eferences. 



Specimens in the Brit. Mns. Coll. are : — 



One male and female from the Cape, and a male and 

 female from Cape Town ; one female from S. Africa 

 {Dr. Hjnith), 44, 6. 



In the Cape Coll. are males and females from Kavcna, 

 Cape Colony, Oct. 191G {L. Peringuez) ; from Cape Town 

 {L. Peringuez) ; from Kraafontein, Cape Colony {Lightfoot) ; 

 trom Grahamstovvn, from Mussel Bay, and i'rom Ookiep, 

 Namaqualand. 



A species easily distinguished by the two tufts of white 

 hairs on the scuteltnm. The genitalia are figured by 

 Macquart in Dipt. E.\ot. i. (2), p. 2 1'2, pi. x. fig. 7 ; v. d. 

 Wulp in Tijd. v. Ent. xix. p. 173 (1870), describes them as 



