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THE AiNiNALS 



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MAGAZIxNE OF NATURAL HISTOKY. 



[NINTH SERIES.] 

 No. 30. JUNE 1920. 



LIX. — Notes on the Asilidae : Sub-division Asiliiias. 

 By Gertrude Ricardo. 



[Concluded from p. 393.] 



Lysmachus hirsutus, ^ , sp. n. 



Type (male) and another male from Ulundi, Natal, 5000- 

 6000 feet, Sept. 1896 (G. A. K. Marshall), 1903, 17. 



A female ffora Willow Grange, Natal (/F. C. Wrougltton) , 

 in 1. E. E. Coll., appears to be identical with these males. 



A very hirsute black species with a large moustache and 

 mane. Legs almost wholly black. ]\loustache black with a 

 few white hairs only. Genitalia very long and slender. 

 Scutellum with very long stout black bristles. 



Length 17-18 mm. 



Male. — Face with greyish tomcntum, almost entirely 

 covered by the thick, black moustache which extends to the 

 antenna} and is composed of black bristly hairs, the few 

 white hairs are chiefly on the upper part. Anteniue blackish, 

 the third joint wanting, the first two joints with black 

 bristly hairs below. Forehead with long black hairs. The 

 curled-over bristles long and black, a bunch of white hairs 

 at vertex between them. Hairs round head black and then 

 white. Thoru.c blackish with yellowish tomeutum, the mane 

 composed of some outstanding black bristles and thick black 

 hairs between, the bristles on posterior part of tliorax black 



Ann. ik May. N. Hist. ISer. 9. Vol. v. 30 



