5G Miss G. RIcardo on the AsilidEe. 



black pubescence ; the eighth ventral segment small and 

 very sliglitly produced, fringed uith fairly long pale hairs. 

 Legs yellowish ; the femora blackish on their outer sides, all 

 covered with short white pubescence; the fore femora witli 

 only soft yellowish hairs above and below, the middle pair 

 with at least four l)lack bristles and two at the apex, soft 

 vellow hairs below, the posterior pair with four bristles 

 below, one above, two near apex and two at the apex, and 

 sott yellow hairs below ; tibiae with cliiefly black pubescence 

 on the first pair and a fringe of apprcssed reddish hairs on 

 under surface ; on the other tibite it is chiefly whitish, all 

 Avith numerous black bristles. W ings clear, shading at apex 

 and on posterior border faint, the small transverse vein is 

 just beyond the middle of the discal cell. 



Female is identical, the bristles on the scutellum only four 

 in number; ovipositor short, blackish; femora more largely 

 black on their outer sides, and the tibire have also a black 

 streak ; the tarsi blackish at their apices; some of the bristles 

 on legs are yellowish. The male is very probably immature, 

 so that others may be found with the lemora as in the 

 female. 



Machimus ugandiensis, $ ? , sp. n. 



Type (male) and another from Mpanga Forest, Toro, 

 4eo6 feet; Uganda, 13-23 Nov.,1911 {S.A.Neave), 1912, 193; 

 other males from Uganda Protectorate S. of Lake Geoige, 

 3200-8400 feet, 17-19 Oct., 1911 : from Para or Durro 

 Foiest, Toro, 4000-4500 feet, 25-29 Oct., 1911 ; and from 

 Buamba Forest, Semliki Valley, 2300-2800 feet : all by the 

 same collector. 



Tvpe (female) from Mpunga Forest, otliers from Mabira 

 Forest, Chagwe, 3500-3800 feet; from Buamba Forest, 

 from between SeziAva River and Kam})ala, 3500-3750 feet ; 

 from Western Ankola, 4500-5000 feet, 10-14 Oct., 1911; 

 and from lirit. E. Africa, edge of forest on S. and E. slopes 

 of Kenya, 6000-7000 feet: all by the same collector. 



This species is apparently nearly allied to Machimus 

 caudicuJaius, Speiser, from German E. Africa, but the 

 descii])tion of the latter (not a very full one) describes the 

 legs as vcllowish grey on the fore tibire and tarsi and on 

 tbe whole hind legs, being covered vith close-lying yelloAv 

 pubescence — in this species the legs are black and not clothed 

 with these lighter hairs. 



Length, S 144-16, ? 15-17|mm. 



Male. — Face with golden-vellow tonientum. Moustache 



