78 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilida?. 



A vellowish-hrown species with blackish antennre^ wliite 

 and black moustache, reddish-yellow legs with black stripes 

 oil the tibiae ; ovipositor short and black, not iucludii)g the 

 seventh segment. 



Length 13i-14 mm. 



Fuce covered with dirty yellowi.sh-wdiite tomentum; tubercle 

 distinct ; moustache composed of white bristles with half a 

 dozen or so fine black bristles above. Antemue dark-coloured, 

 both the two basal joints with stroug black bristles and 

 hairs, the third joint is wanting in all the specimens. Fore- 

 head with yellow tomentum and with black bristles on each 

 side. Occipital bristles black, hairs round head white. 

 ]3eard white. Palpi black with white liairs. Thorax blackish 

 brown covered with yellowish tomentum and with two 

 distinct dark brown stripes and shorter side-stripes; pr?e- 

 sutural, supra-alar, and postalar bristles all black and two in 

 nuipber, central bristles long and stout with short bristl s 

 running up to the shoulders ; pubescence chiefly consists of 

 sliort black hairs. Scutellum with two long w'hite bristles. 

 Abdomen blackish brown, covered -syitli yellowish-grey tomen- 

 tum, with yellowish bristles on posterior borders of segments 

 at sides and below, and with short yellow pubescence. Letjs 

 with black stripes on all the feniura on the inner dorsal 

 surface covered with fine white pube-cence, and with yellow 

 bristles at apex and below ; tibite blackisli at apex, with 

 yellow bristles; tarsi largely black with black bristles; pubes- 

 cence on legs black and short. Wings clear, the posterior 

 branch of third vein with only a very moderate curve,, small 

 transverse vein about the middle of the di&cal cell. 



Heligmoneura natalensis, J ? , sp. n. 



Type (male) from Marley Kloof, Natal, and others from 

 Natal and ]\lfongosi, Znluland. 



Type (female) from Karkloof, Natal, Feb. 1897 (G. A. K. 

 Marshall), 1903, 17, in Brit. Mus. Coll., and other females 

 from Natal; and Mfongosi, Zululand {}V. E. Junes). 



A species differing from Heligmoneura africanus by the 

 black bristles on the scutellum and black bristles on tlie 

 legs; it is also larger on the whole. 



Length, S 16-17, ? 14-18 mm. 



Male. — Face dark, covered with whiiish tomentum; the 

 tubercle bearing black bristles aliove and yellowish ones 

 be'ow, forming the moustache, with short black bristk-s 

 below. Pali)i black with black hairs. Beard scanty, white. 

 Antenna black. Forehead the same as face, wi;h black 



