Miss G. Ricardo on (he A-;ilicl.ie. 439 



joint. Forehead with cliiefly black bristly hairs. The curled 

 l)ristles are black and stron;?, with a few white bristles each 

 side, the hairs continued round head are white. jBeorrf white. 

 Thorav bronze-green, covered witli greyish-yellow tomentum 

 and with well-marked median and side stripes. Mane very 

 meagre, hardly typical of this genus, composed of scanty 

 short yellow hairs beginning from the middle only, sur- 

 rounded by very short black bristles ; all the side-bristles are 

 also stout but yellowish ; the pubescence on dorsum black, 

 short ; a row of these hairs in place of a mane can be seen on 

 the anterior part on the middle line. Sciitellum with stout 

 yellowish-white bristles on its posterior border and weak 

 hairs of the same colour on its dorsum. Abdomen covered 

 with yellowish tomentum, thickest at the sides and on the 

 segmentations, leaving a large dark spot discernible on each 

 segment ; dorsum covered with short yellow pubescence, the 

 bristles are whitish and long ; underside with a few and also 

 long yellowish hairs. Genitalia large, black, the upper 

 forceps long, stout, and swollen at base, continued in a long 

 curved point, the points meeting each other, leaving a large 

 circular space between them ; they are covered with rather 

 thick yellowish-white pubescence ; under-forccps short with 

 long yellowish-white hairs. Legs wholly bronze-coloured, 

 covered with thick short white pubescence and stout yellow 

 bristles, the middle and posterior femora heavily armed with 

 them ; only a few black bristles are present, two at apices of 

 fore femora, and a group of short ones on the dorsum of the 

 fore tibite, or they are extended along the edge in some 

 specimens, and a few black bristles are present on the tarsi. 

 Wings clear, veins brown, the small transverse vein beyond 

 the middle of the discal cell. 



Female is identical ; the black ])ristles above moustache 

 are fewer in number. The curved bristles are all yellow. 

 Ihorax has some short yellow jmbescence. Ovipositor short, 

 the upper part covered with dense greyish tomentum on its 

 basal half, the apical half narrower, black and shining, 

 ending in a curved point, the lower part almost all black. 

 Wings clear, greyish. 



(Jne of the specimens from Zululand is much larger, and 

 has one black bristle on the scutellum. 



DvscLYTus, Loew. 

 Ofver3. Kongl. Vet.-.\knd. Forhandl. xiv. \%'u, pp. .".til & 'M^ (ISoS). 

 This genus was formed by Loew for one species, D. s/jurcus, 



