Miss G. Ricardo on the AsiliJae. 437 



appears black with brownish toraentum, witli some lonj^ 

 black bristles and with rather thick black pubescence on the 

 dorsum ; underside thickly clothed with blacdc bristles and 

 hairs. Genitnlia short and stout, testaceous at apex, other- 

 wise black with some white hairs al)ove and black hairs 

 below arrauo;ed in tufts. Legs blank, the knees and base of 

 anterior tihiiB dull testaceous, all bristles black and the 

 pubescence black, lonj^er on undersides of femora and tibire. 

 irinr/s clear, a little tinned with yellow along the veins. 



Female identical. Moustache with more white hairs. 

 Abdomen witli traces of white hairs on the second segment 

 and with long ones on the underside. Legs have some short 

 white ])ubescence on underside of fore tibioe and on under- 

 side of hind femora. 



Note by collector as follows : " Taken on the bare wind- 

 swept mountain-top, almost the only living insect. — R. C." 



Loew's Division IP**. 

 Mane not extending the whole length of thorax. 



Dysmachus albopilosus, sp. n. 



Type (male) from Howick, Natal (/. P. Cregue), 1903, 

 212 ; and otlier males in Brit. Mus. Coll. 



Type (female) from Willow Grange, Natal (/?. C. TVroughton), 

 in I. E. E. Coll., and other females from same locality ; also 

 from Howick and from Estcourt, Natal, Sept., Oct., 1896 

 (G. A. K. Marshall), 1903, 17, in B.M. Coll. 



A species distinguished by the short genitalia of males 

 and the short ovipositor of females. Mane white posteriorly, 

 all hairs and bristles on scutellum white and most of the 

 bristles on the legs white or yellow, and on tlie abdomen 

 the same colour. Legs almost wholly metallic bronze- 

 coloured. Distinguished from Loew^s species, D. sciiventris, 

 by the absence of black bristles on the scutellum and the 

 tibire are not brown. 



Length, S 13-16, ? 13-18 mm. 



Male. — Face covered with pale yellowisli tomcntum. 

 Moustache composed of chieHy yellow hairs, with black hairs 

 at the sides, but none near the oral aperture, fairly thick, 

 reaching the antennic. JJeard white. Antenritc with the 

 first two joints blackish with bhick bristles, the third wanting. 

 Forehead with some black hairs and bristles. The curled 



