Miss G. Ricardo vn the AsilidoB. 387 



Male. — Face covered with glistening white tomcntum. 

 Moustache large and thick, composed of black and white 

 hairs intermixed. Beard white. Antennce black, the first 

 two joints with stout black bristly hairs; the arista long. 

 Forehead with white hairs. The curved bristles are weak, 

 black, but fairly long. Thorax bronze-coloured with lighter 

 tonientnm and some short while pubescence ; the mane is 

 huge, composed oE fairly thick short black hairs and many 

 long outstanding bristles ; a few longer white hairs are 

 visible on the posterior part of thorax at the sides and also 

 internlixed with the mane, but not forming a noticeable 

 white stripe. Scute/lum with a double row of black 

 bristles, about four in each, and with long white hairs 

 each side and in centre ; hardly tuft-like. Abdomen black 

 covered w'ith brownish-grey tomentura and with fairly 

 thick short white pubescence ; the bristles chiefly white in 

 a double row, one on the top of the other ; underside with 

 longer thick white pubescence and weaker white bristles. 

 Genitalia almost equal in length to the last two segments, 

 stout at base, tapering to a point, covered with white pubes- 

 cence ; the lower pair of forceps very short. Legs bronze- 

 coloured, with w hite pubescence and longer white hairs on 

 femora and til)iae ; middle and hind femora with white bristles, 

 otherwise all bristles are black. IVinys clear, the small 

 transverse vein on the last third of the discal cell towards 

 apex. 



Female identical. Abdomen better preserved, shows a 

 large browuish-hlack spot on each segment, the white 

 bristles longer and three-deep. Ovipositor short. 



Pysmachus transvaalensis, (^ , sp. n. 



Tvpe (male) and another ma-le from Bloksberg, Johanues- 

 berg (C. //. Pead), 1907, 250, in Brit. Mus. Coll. 



A small species with short white pubescence on the body 

 and legs and many white bristles on the abdomen both above 

 and below ; distinguished from D. spiniventris, Loew, by the 

 reddish colour of the tibire and tarsi. Scutellum with white 

 hairs and bristles. Mane white posteriorly. Moustache 

 w hitish. 



Length 9 mm. 



Face with silvery-white tomentum at sides. Moustache 

 large, extending the whole length of face, yellowish while 

 with only a very few black hairs intermixed. Antenme black, 

 with thick black bristly pubescence on lower side of the first 

 two joints. Forehead with yellowish tomentum, a bunch of 



