Sauth Afrlran ami Oyifnf,i! A-<iliiin\ '>.') 



luisili!-!. /.<'//>• Mack : :i|)|)aioiilly flic yellow colour in \ui>rr. 

 proilomiiiaiit tliaii in Locw's specimen, as all tin; uliia) uikI 

 the tai.si arc yeliowi.sli. 



Dysmachus rnlinstus^ J' ? , sp. n. 



Type (male), type (female),- and other males and fcMiialcM, 

 nil IVoin I'letoria ( .l//.v.v J. lirincker). 



In Loew's Division A. IT.'. 



It (lirt'frs from l)i/stnachus eri/thrartinthus, IIcM'inann \^Ln- 

 phonotKs], from the Cape, l)y the absence of any Inistles on 

 the uiulersicie of the al)domen, and from Dysmackna chulco- 

 t/asler^ Wied, by the presence of bristles on the dorsum of 

 abdomen. Hermann places his spocies under Division A. II.-". 



A large robust species, mt^asuriu::-, (^ 25-28, ? 23-2".l mm. 



Mule. — Face covered with yellowish-white glistening; 

 tnmentum ; tubercle on lower part of face. Moustache as in 

 Jh/smachits, thick, reaehing the antcnnoe, composed of long 

 yellowish-white iiairs, also extending round the oral opening. 

 P.eard whiter. Palpi yellowish, white-haired. Antenna- 

 black, the first two joints with numerous long black bristles 

 on lower sides, one or two white ones intermixed ; third joint 

 linear more or less, the arista about the same length, the 

 joint not much longer than the first joint. Forehead sami'. 

 colour as face, with long black hairs. Hind part of head 

 with white bristles curved over. Thorax blackish, with grey 

 tomenfum ; a median undivided black stripe, very distinct, 

 bordered on each side by an olive-green stripe. Mane black, 

 short on the anterior half, longer behind, with many long- 

 whitish bristles bordering it; all bristles white; the pul)i-s- 

 cence on dorsum short, black, white hairs posteriorly on 

 sides. Scutellum covered with long, whitish, bristly hairs, a 

 few shoit black hairs intermixed, but no strong bristles on 

 border, onh' the white bristly hairs forming a continuous 

 fringe. Abdomen blackish, covered with white tomentum on 

 sides and on dorsum, with the large ])rownisli tonientosi; 

 spots, on Avhich a distinct, narrow, median, black stripe is 

 visible; pubescence chiefly yellowish, short, some yellow- 

 bristles at sides; underneath some weak yellow hairs. Geni- 

 talia very large, black ; upper forceps massive, two-pronged, 

 the n))per one with some black short hairs, the lower one 

 with white Iiairs lather spine-like, both widely separated, the 

 lower one short and small, palpus-like, with white hairs, the 

 plate above them black, with white hairs on border. Legs 

 wholly black, with the exception of the foro ami middle 

 tibiie, which are obscurely red at extreme base; piibiscence 



