378 Miss G. Ricarclo on the AsiliJje. 



Male. — Face with fairly thick yellow or orauge moustache 

 reaching the aiiteniia\ Palpi blackish with chiefly black hairs. 

 Anteiuue blackish brown, the first two joints with black hairs 

 and at least one yellow one on underside, the arista long and 

 stout. Forehead covered with hairs a little lighter in colour 

 than those of moustache. The curled bristles yellow, in)t 

 stout, difficult to distingnisli from the many yellow hairs 

 round them, continued round head. Tliorax brouze-colouied 

 with greyish tomentum aud short black pubescence, a few 

 yellow hairs interspersed ; the mane consists of black hairs, 

 some longer than others, but outstanding bristles are absent, 

 the four praisutural bristles are yellow with shorter ones 

 round them, the supra-alar aud postalar are black and 

 yellow aud more numerous than usual. Scutellum covered 

 with tliick long yellow or orange hairs, and the same-coloured 

 bristles on posterior margin. Abihmen appears blackish 

 brown with soft reddish-yellow pubescence and the same 

 below ; there are traces of yellowish tomentum on dorsum. 

 Genitalia black, shining, stout, the upper pincers large with 

 two points widely separated, the upper one club-shaped, 

 obtuse, and short ; the lower one slender and much longer, 

 with yellow and black hairs, also below, but a tuft of orange 

 hairs aj)pears on the black undor-platc in the centre. Leys 

 blackish, the femora with fairly long yellowish pubescence 

 and stout black bristles on the middle and hind pair ; tibite 

 almost honey-yellow, the apices of middle and hind pair 

 black, the fore tibiie with long yellow hairs and many long 

 yellow Inist'es, the middle pair with black bristles but many 

 weak yellow ones, the hind pair with black bristles and two 

 or more yellow ones, ihe yellow hairs present but not so 

 thick on the two liind pairs ; tarsi with black bristles. Wings 

 clear, the middle transverse vein very oblique, situated on 

 about two-thirds of the length of the discal cell. 



Female identical. Abdomen covered with greyisli-yellow 

 tomentum aud yellowish pubescence, the ovipositor short, 

 black. 



Dysmuchus leoninus, Schiuer. 



Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wieii, xvii. p. 402, lOG [Lophomtus] (1867). 



The type was described from the Cape, measuring 

 12-13 mm. 



One ? from Caledon, Cape Colony (A'. //. Barnard), 

 l'J16, in Cape collection. It measures 121 mm. 



Easily distinguished by the short fox-red pubescence on 



