r>C) ]\Iiss G. Ricardo on 



white and fairly thick on legs, the bristles all yellowish ; a 

 few black ones on fore femora, which have white hiiirs 

 below. Winffs clear, veins yellowish red, the small trans- 

 verse vein beyond the middle of the discal cell. 



Female identical, the red on the tibire very slight or non 

 existent. Ocipositor black, with white hairs and yellowish 

 ones at apices, not much longer than the last segment. 



? jXew Genus near Dysmachus. 



A male specimen from Gundumri, Bhandaro, C.P., India, 

 sent nie some years ago by A. D. Imms, has ii striking 

 resemblance to a species of Dysmachus, a genus as yet with 

 no representative in the Oriental Region. This specimen 

 ■will probably require a new genus, as it has no tubercle on 

 the face and no widening of the base of the second posterior 

 cell. Being in a bad condition, with no antenna3 or legs, it 

 is useless to describe it further; but it is j)laced in the IJrit. 

 Mus. Coll. in the hope that other specimens may be forwarded 

 in the future. 



Synolcits, Loew. 



Ofvers. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Fcirhand. xiv. 1857, pp. 361, 362 (1858). 



This genus is distinguished by the dilated wings in the 

 male and by the bulging of the discal cell into the first 

 posterior cell. 



It is confined as yet to the South African and Oriental 

 Regions, three species being known from the former and 

 five from the latter. 



Table for Species of Synolcus /rom the South African Region. 



1. Legs chiefly yellow 2. 



Legs chiefly black 3. 



2. Yellowish species. Femora with a short black 



stripe duhius, Macq. 



Black and brownish-grey species. Femora with 

 a long black stripe tenuiventris, Loew. 



3. Wings with a dark spot at apex. Dark-coloured 



smaller species acrolaptus, Wied. 



Sijnolcus duhius, Macq. 



Dipt, Exot., Suppl. i. p. 217, pi. viii. fig. 16 [Asiliia]; Loew, Dipt, 

 Sud-Afrik. i. p. 149 (1860). 



Two females from Umbilo, Natal {E. C. Chubb) (1913) ; 

 one female from Karkloof, Natal (G. A. K. Marshall) 

 (18'J7). In Durban Coll. are two females from Umbilo, 



