388 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidje. 



white hairs on eacli side and long black hairs beyond, the 

 ourled-over bristh's black and long, a bnnch of white hairs 

 at vertex between them, and liairs ronnd head white. 

 Thorax bronzc-eoloured with sparse white pubescence; the 

 nnine of long outstanding bristles and thick black hairs 

 inside, posteriorly these hairs are white; bristles at sides 

 whitish, long, the dorsal bristles on posterior i)art of thorax 

 chietiy bhick, and longer white hairs are present here. 

 Scutellum with tufts of white hairs on its black dorsum and 

 long yellowish-white bristles on the posterior border. Abdo- 

 men with grey tomentum and thick whitish pubescence, the 

 yellowish-white bristles on dorsum are about four deep on 

 each segment; underside bristles with them and has short 

 white pubescence. Genitalia short, stout, chestnut-brown, 

 club-shaped with square ends, deeply notched below, lower 

 surface with thi(;k whitish hairs and above with shorter 

 white pubescence ; under lamellre short with long whitish 

 hairs. Legs blackish with the bristles largely white, the 

 anterior and middle tibiae and tarsi of an obscure reddish 

 colour, the hind pair only so at their extreme base ; the fore 

 femora with stout black bristles below and some whitish 

 hairs and one or more white bristles on their upper surface, 

 the middle pair with chiefly white bristles above and black 

 ones below, the hind pair wiih white and black bristles; the 

 tibire with long yellowish liairs below and long s^out yellow 

 bristles, the fore pair with some black bristles on their iipper 

 surface ; tarsi all reddish, armed with chiefly white bristles ; 

 pubescence on legs thick, white. IVings clear, veins yellow. 



Dysmachus albufasciatus, Ricardo. 



Ann. & Map. Nat. Hist. (7) vi. p. 178 (1900). 



Type (male) and another- male from Pretoria (?F. L. 

 Distant), and males and females from Estconrt, Natal, Sept. 

 and Oct. 1896 (G. A. K. Marshall). 190(J-17, and one 

 female from Ulundi, Natal, 5000-0500 feet, by the same 

 collector. 



A species measuring 15^ mm. 



Dysmachus leucotcenia, Bezzi. 



IJull. Soc. Ent. Itftl. .xxxvii. p. 28G (1000) [LopJwuofus]. 



Two males from Victoria Falls, Zambesi, July 1914 

 (Miss J. Brinc/ccr), 1915, 125, and one female; one male 

 from Mfongosi, Zululaud {W. E. James), in Caj)C t'oll. 



