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MAGAZINE OF NATUUAL KISTOilY. 



[NINTH SERIES.] 

 No. 2t). MAY 1920. 



LII. — Notes on the Asilidae : Sub-division Asiliiue. 

 By Gertrude Ricardo. 



[Coutiuued from p. 241.] 



Dysmachus tibialis, Macq. 

 Dipt. E.Yot. i. (2) p. 245 (1838). 



This species was described by Muccjuurt from the Cape 

 as follows : — 



" Yellow-haired. ^loustache yellow. Legs black ; tibije 

 red. Wings with the fourth posterior cell oblique. 

 Face and forehead with yellow tonientuni. IJeard yellow. 

 Autcunie wanting. Thora.v and abdomen black with green 

 reftectious, tomentum aud pubescence greyish yellow. Legs 

 with yellow and black bristles, apices of tibiie black. AVings 

 vcUowish, the longitudinal veins bordered with light brown. 

 U 1. ? ." 



The specimens noted below seem to answer to this de- 

 scription, but till the. type can be examined the question 

 must remain doubtful. The following description will serve, 

 at any rate, to identify my specimens : — 



Males and females from Stelleui)osch, in Cape Museum 

 Coll. 



Distinguished by the wholly yellow beard and by the 

 vellowish-red tibias and yellow pubescence on scutellum. 



Length, (S ^2-2:5, ? 21 mm. 

 Ann. li; Mac/. X. 1 1 int. iScr. 9. Wd. v. 2tj 



