180 Miss G. Ricardo on 



specimens from Aslianti, Duala in Cameroons, Sierra Leone, 

 Liberia, and S. Nigeria, in 1, E. E. Coll. from Kumasi. 

 Ashanti ; Nyasaland, Ibadan in S. Nigeri;i, and Gold Coast. 



A small blac^c species; the tibiae paler at the extreme base 

 only, the bristles on legs black. Li the female the fore 

 femora have two or three short black bristles below and soft 

 Avhite hairs. In the male there are usually two long black 

 bristly hairs and yellow hairs. 



Length, c? IS/ ? 15-20 mm. 



A series of males and females from Pretoria (Miss J. 

 Brinclcer) differ slightly, the males having no black bristly 

 liairs on fore feniora below, in the female there are some 

 black and white bristles; the tibise and tarsi on their outer 

 sides have white bristles, and the tarsi some on the inside, 

 the hind femora with them above and below. Moustache 

 is Avhite, but there are black bristles above towards the base 

 of the antennse ; they are slightly larger, measuring in the 



Philodicus walkeri, ? , Ricardo. 



[Asilus turimts, 2 , Walker, List Dipt. ii. p. 407 (1849), in parte.] 



Type (female) from Sierra Leone (presented by Rev. F. D. 

 Morgan), other females from Bugaraa, Nigeria (Dr. Annott), 

 and Sierra Leone (Walker (;oll.). 



This specimen placed with Philodicus turinus male type 

 as the female type evidently is not the same species, though 

 very nearly allied, the legs being more largely black with 

 all black bristles ; the tibiae are dull rufous on their outer 

 sides, black at the apices ; the femora are wholly dark- 

 coloured, all armed with black bristles ; the pubescence on 

 legs greyish, the oral opening with three or more black 

 bristles. 



The absence of the long yellow bristles on the fore tibiae 

 and fore tarsi distinguishes it at once from Philodicus turimis, 

 ^^'alker's description of this latter is more than usually in- 

 accurate, no mention being made of these bristles in the 

 male type, and the assertion that the wings in the temale 

 are longer than the body is incorrect. 



Length 23-27 mm. 



Philodicus fr at er cuius, ? , Walker. 



List Dipt, vii., Suppl. 3, p. 597 [Trupanea'] (1856). 



One female (type) from Port Natal. 



One male from Junction Blaauw Krantz and Tugela 



