Miss G. Ricanlo on the Asili.la\ 443 



consists of loiJs: fine black hair-; ; fore coxic with thick 

 yellowish hairs, the others with black hairs; the tibi;e with 

 long reddish hairs belort- and at sides, on the fore and hind 

 pairs a good many black hairs appear ; hind tibiic with black 

 bristles ; tarsi with black hairs and bristles. Wings shaded 

 brown on fore border, at apex, and in the centre of cells, 

 transverse veins shaded brown, venation as in N. natalensia. 

 Female identical, but the hairs on legs not so long or thick, 

 and chiefly black, in the type those on the fore and middle 

 tibise are yellowish, and the fore tibiae have a fringe of 

 appressed orange hairs below ; the hind femora with some 

 shorter white hairs above, in another female tiie hairs on 

 fore tibise are wholly black. Ovipositor as in N. 7iataleiisis, 

 but barely as long as the three preceding segments. 



Neodasophrys androclea. Walker. 



Type (male), in bad condition, from S. Africa {Dr. Smith), 

 4 t, f). Male f lom Umbilof.J. L. Bevis), 191G. Female from 

 Mgwavuma, Zulnl uid, March 1917 { IH. U\ Ba.i'ter), hoi\\. in 

 Durban Museum Coll. 



A species nearly allied to Neodasophrys hirsutus, but 

 smaller and with clear wings. 



Length, ^ 17, ? 21 mm. 



Mule. — Scutelluin with long yellowish-red bristles on its 

 posterior border. In all other respects similar to Xeo- 

 (lirs'ophrys liirsittus. 



Female. — Til)iiTe with chiedv long yellowish hairs on each 

 side on the middle i)air, and l)lack and yellow on the others. 

 Ovipositor about as long as the three preceding segments. 



Megadrillus, Bigot. 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 3, v. p. 545 (li^oT). 



This genus is only distiuguislied from Dysmachus hy the 

 first posterior cell of wing being closed. 



Megadrillus brevipennis, ^ ? , ^Nlacq. 



Dipt. Exot. i. p. loO (1838) [Lophonotun']. 



J)i/siii(ichu8 e/arhtpfeius, Loow, l>ipt. Siid-Afrik. i. p. \G'A (1,S()0) ; 

 kScliiiier, Novaia liei.«e, Dijitera, p. 180 (18G8). 



One male from Ceres Div., Matroosbcrg, 2500 feet, in 

 Cape ]\Iuscum Coll. 



