438 ]\Iiss G. Ricanlo on the Asilitlrc. 



bristles at back of liead are black, on eacli side of tlie vertex. 

 Mane apparently does not begin till the middle, although 

 a row of very short hairs are visil)le in most of the specimens 

 anteriorly on the median line, becoming longer below the 

 collar; the mane proper begins at the suture in the form of 

 long black bristles on each side, enclosing short i)lack hairs 

 whicli are replaced by long dirty yellow hairs reaching the 

 posterior border; most of the bristles on each side of thorax 

 are yellowish and long, Scutclhnn almost bare, with long 

 yellow bristles on its posterior border, six or more in number, 

 interspersed with a few weak yellow hairs. Thorax and 

 seutellum bronze -green with greyish-yellow tomentum. 

 Abdomen the same colour, the tomentum thickest at sides 

 and on segmentations, having a large lirownish spot on each 

 segment ; bristles on sides yellow, two deep ; pubescence on 

 dorsum very short, pale yellowish; underside identical. 

 Legs wholly bronze-green with whitish pubescence and longer 

 l)ale yellow hairs below femora and tibire, all the bristles 

 yellow. Wings greyish, the small transverse vein at about 

 the middle of the diseal cell. Female identical, some black 

 hairs present near the oral opening, third joint of antennso 

 Avith arista a little more than halt" its length. i>vij)osifor 

 short, about the length of the last segment, black shining 

 with some dirty yellow pubescence at tip. 



Dysmachus nir/ripes, sp. n. 



Type (male) from AVillbrook, Natal, 17. ii. 1014. 



Ty[)e (female) from Willow Grange, Natal {R. C. lFrouf//i- 

 toti), other males from same localities; two fiom Mfongosi, 

 Zululand ( W. E. Jones), and another female from ^Villbrook ; 

 all iu I. E. E. Coll. 



A species nearly allied to Dysmnchiis aJboijilnsiis,^^. n., but 

 diilenng from it in the shape of the genitalia, which are 

 here a fair length and slender, the moustache is Also wholly 

 yellow, and the legs entirely blackish. 



Length, S 10-18, ? 17-18 mm. 



JSlule. — Face covered with glistening yellowisli tomentum. 

 Heard not very thick, composed of fairly long yellow bristly 

 liairs, not reaching the antcnna>, the space between being 

 occupied by long black bristles, which in some specimens 

 continue a short way alongside of vellow hairs. Falpi with 

 long yellow hairs. Anteniice blackish, the first two joints 

 witli black bristly hairs below and a very few white ones 

 on upperside, arista more than half the length of the third 



