444 Miss G. Ricanlo on the Asilidfc. 



Tliis species was described by Macquart from an unknown 

 locality. Loew's species from the Cape is evidently tlie same. 



This specimen in the Caj)e Museum Coll. answers to 

 ^factpiart's description, which is as follows: — 



" Black, white-iiaircd. "Wings short, the first posterior 

 cell closed. Length 7 lines, ^ . 



" Face, moustache, and beard white. Abdomen cyliiulrical, 

 M'ith a black triangular spot on each segment. Legs with 

 black bristles. Wing a little brownish." 



A pretty little species with a snow-white mmixtache, move 

 posteriorly white, with short black hairs anteriorly and out- 

 staiuling black bristles along its whole length. Sadellum 

 with the white mane continued in the centre and a tuft of 

 white hairs on each side, the posterior border armed with 

 four stout, long, black bristles. Genitalia small, black with 

 "white pubescence. 



Length 13 mm. 



Lophonotus heteronetirus, iMacq., now in this genus, is 

 described as having a large brown spot on wings with a 

 black mane, and is from the Cape. 



Dasophrys, Loew. 



Ofvers. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Foihaudl. xiv. 18.57, pp. 362 & 366, 29 

 (1858). 



This genus was formed by Loew for his species /). lonpi- 

 harbis from Kalfraria. Tlie genus is near Dysmachus, but 

 distinguished fiom it by the long Itainns-Vikc ovipositor in 

 the female, and by the widening of the wing on fore-border 

 of the male. The face has an indistinct tubercle reaching 

 the antenna;. Scliinor described another species, Dasop/iri/s 

 ))ersonatus, from the Cape, and Asiliis viyricaus, Wied., lias 

 been placed in this genus, also from the Cape ; neither of 

 tliese species is known to me. 



J)asojj/irijs par on, "Walker. 



List Dipt. Jirit. Miis. iii. p. 450 [Asihis], l^^JO, et vii. Suppl. .3, p. 714 

 Lop/wvotux] (lHo5); Loew, Dipt. 'Sud-Alrik. i. p. 145 (1800) 



Danop/iri/s linKiiharlms, Loew, Dijit. Siid-Afrik. i. p. 160 (1860). 



Walker's type (male) from S. Africa (Dr. A. Smil/i),l4-G. 

 Two males and five females from Junction Hlaaw Krantz 

 and Tngela River, Natal, Oct. ISUG {G. A. K. Marshall), 

 1903, 17. 



