South African and Oriental iVaiWus^. 179 



Philodicus dubius, (J ? , sp. n. 



Type (male) and another, type (female), all from 

 M'Fongosi, Zululand {fV. E.Jones), March 1911, iu Cape 

 ]\luseuni Coll 



A large species, iu general appearance resembling an 

 Alcimus species with a long body and short wings; the 

 bristles on the legs are chiefly white. 



Length, (^ type 32, ? type 32 mm. 



Male. — Face reddish with yellow tomentura. Moustache 

 composed of yellow bristles and some finer wliite hairs, one 

 l)lack bristle near oral opening. Palpi with white hairs. 

 Beard white. Forehead same colour as face wiih some yellow 

 bristly hairs ; soft white hairs below the antennce, which are 

 reddish with black hairs, the third black and bare. Hind 

 part of head with reddish-yellow bristles. Thorax with the 

 usual stripes, with black pubescence and longer fine white 

 liairs posteriorly between the stout black bristles. ScuteUum 

 with two black bristles and short white hairs. Abdomen 

 long and slender with the usual dark spots and pale segmen- 

 tations ; pubescence largely white, black on the middle of 

 the dark spots ; sides with yellow bristles. Genitalia reddish 

 with thick, short, yellow pubescence. Leys reddish, femora 

 blackish below, and hind tibiae largely black; pubescence on 

 legs thick short and ])ale-coloured ; bi-istles chiefly M'hite, 

 black on the tarsi. Wings shorter than body, the shading 

 in apex faint; veins brown. 



Female identical; the bristles on scutellum are red. Yove 

 femora have yellow bristles below, instead of fine hairs as in 

 the male, and the yellow bristles predominate on the legs. 

 Ovipositor short, reddish. 



Philodicus gracilis, v. d. Wulp. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Loudon, lb99, p. 92, pi. iii. fig. o (1899). 



One female from Arabia (Percival and Dodson), 1900, 36. 



This specimen answers in all particulars to the description, 

 with the small exception (jf the palpi, which are black, not 

 lufous, and some of the bristles on the tarsi are white. 



Philodicus tenierarius, ^ ? , Walker. 



Dipt. Ins. Saund. i. p. 121 (ISol) ; et List Dipt, vii., Suppl. .^, p. o96 

 (1855) [I'rnpanea]; Loew, Dipt. Siid-Afrik. i. p. 127 (16G0) 

 [^Fromachus]. 



[P/iilodicus obscuripes, Loew, Dipt. Siid-Afrik. i. p. 139 (ISGG).] 



Type (female) from Senegal (IV. IV. Saunders), other 



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