302 j\[iss G. llicjiido on the Asilidno. 



Dysmachus wroughtoni, sp. ii. 



Type (male), type (female), and other males aud females 

 froui Willow Grange, Natal {R. C. Jt'rouyldun), in I. E. E. 

 Coll.; aud one male from Uluiidi, Natal, 50U0-G0U0 feet, 

 Sept. 189G (G. ^i. K. Marshall), 1903, 17. 



A small greyish speeies. Abdomen with a black central 

 stripe. Mane all black with the exception of an admixture 

 of pale reddish hairs on the anterior half, but with a fine 

 side-stripe of white tomentum on the posterior half and 

 white tufts of hairs on the scutellum. Legs blackish ; tibiae 

 partly reddish. Moustache black with a mixture of reddish- 

 yellow and white hairs. Genitalia of male long. 



Length, S 15, ? 12-13 mm. 



Male. — Face glistening white, the moustache very large, 

 reaching to the antennai ; in the type the hairs are largely 

 reddish yellow and white at their apices, with the black 

 hairs in the centre. Beard white. Afttenme blackish, the 

 arista short, the first and second joints with very long, stout, 

 black, erect hairs on their under sides and shorter reddish 

 liairs on their upper sides. Forehead darker than face, with 

 many erect ])lack hairs. The black curved bristles on hind 

 ])art of head are long, with white hairs behind them and 

 round head. Thorax armed with a very distinct mane, from 

 which numerous long black bristles proceed in the whole 

 length, the reddish hairs intermixed with the black are not 

 very noticeable ; dorsum with chiefly short, fine, dirty white 

 or yellow pubescence, tlie sides with grey tomentum ; the 

 three prtesutural bristles are yellow, the two supra-alar and 

 two postalar bristles black, the narrow white stripes of 

 tomentum are only visil)le in certain lights. Scutcllion 

 same colour as thorax, with reddish-yellow fine hairs aud a 

 'double row of stout black bristles on its border, besides the 

 white tuft of hairs on each side. Abdomen with greyish- 

 yellow tomentum, with a well-marked narrow black central 

 stripe and traces of dark spots on the sides, the first 

 segment with thick white hairs, the dorsum with sliort 

 yellowish sparse ])ubescencc and stout yellow bristles on 

 posterior borders and sides of segments, the underside with 

 long white liairs, only a few of the yellow bristles are 

 visible here. Genitalia bronze, shining, with fairly long 

 yellowish-white pubescence ; the forceps arc long, simple, 

 thi'ir apices simi>le ending in an obtuse point with black 

 hairs. Le(js bronze, shining, with whitish short pubescence ; 

 the femora stout with some long yellowish hairs and with 



