380 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asiliila?. 



Length 15 and IG mm. 



Face covered witli silky yellowish tomentura. Moustache 

 rcacliing to the auteuiifc, ooiuposed of snow-white soft liairs, 

 snrronnded hy black bristly haiis. Pa/jji with black hairs. 

 Beard snowy-white. Anteinuo black, the first two joints with 

 very long black bristly hairs below and shorter ones on their 

 npper sides. Forehead with nsnally long black liairs. Hind 

 head with weak white hairs at vertex cnrliug over and black 

 stont bristles also curling over, beyond these the hairs round 

 liead are soft and iiale-coloured. Thorax bronze-coloured 

 with whitish tomentum and short whitish pubescence, the 

 mane thick and composed of long black hairs with which 

 are intermingled short white hairs, becoming longer pos- 

 teriorly but still leaving the centre with black hairs, the 

 usnal stout bristles on sides of dorsum are weak, chiefly 

 whitish, some very long. Scutelltan covered with long 

 white hairs becoming more bristly on the border, these hairs 

 are not disposed as white tufts. Abdomen bronze-coloured, 

 with thick rather bushy white hairs on the first three 

 segments, less bushy beyond, but still present as short 

 white pubescence, and hairs at sides are pale-coloured; the 

 usual (lark spots are present on each segment, with greyish 

 tomentum at sides ; under side with soft whitish hairs. 

 Genitalia black, shining, with white hairs, below disposed as 

 snowy-whit(! tufts ; forceps short but stout and wide, two- 

 pronged with obtuse teeth. Le(/s bronze-coloured with white 

 hairs ; the fore and middle tibiie honey-yellow above for two- 

 thirds of their length, and black underneath, the hind pair 

 chielly yellow at their base only ; the two anterior pairs of 

 femora and tibiie with long white hairs on each side, the 

 liiiid legs w-ith fewer but with stouter longer black bristles ; 

 the fore tibiie with three white bristles at their apices and 

 the middle pair with three on their outer side, fore and 

 middle tarsi with some white bristles, the hind pair with 

 only black ones. Wint/s greyish, with yellow veins, the 

 small transverse vein beyond the middle of the discal cell. 



Dysmachns tamulis, sp. n. 



Type (male) and other males from Willow Grange, Natal 

 {R. C. Jl'ruiff/hton), in I. E. E. Coll. 



A small species, to t)c recognized by the dull reddish or in 

 some specimens reddish-yellow til)iie, which have a i)lack 

 stri[)e on the inside, ami hy the wholly light-coloured tarsi. 

 Alxlomcu with a dark largo spot on each segment. 

 Sculellniii with \ ellow hairs only. 



