On South- African and Oriental Asilinpe. 175 



of the abdomen ; first scapal segment fulvous ; second seg- 

 ment fulvous ; remainder of the organ dai k brown. Head 

 fulvous. 



Mesonotal prsescutum and scutum liver-brown, margined 

 sublaterally with black, the extreme lateral margins pale ; 

 scutellum greenish testaceous medially ; postnotum with the 

 median sclerite dull fulvous, mai'gined with dark brown. 

 Pleura yellowish, marked longitudnially with dark brown, 

 this colour extending across the dorsal margin of the lateral 

 sclerite of the postnotum. Mesosternum dark l)rown, 

 yellowish medially. Halteres dark brown, the extreme base 

 paler. Legs with the coxae dark brown on the outer face, 

 the apices yellow ; trochanters yellow ; remainder of legs 

 brown ; femoral tips broadly brownish black ; claws of male 

 toothed. Wings with a pale grey tinge, the costal cell 

 brown, the subcostal cell and stigma dark brown ; a faint 

 brown seam along 7'-m and the deflection of /?4+5. 

 Venation : Rs shorter than /?2+3 ; petiole of cell M^ shorter 

 than m. 



Abdomen brownish testaceous, the caudal margins of the 

 segments narrowly infuscated ; segments 6 to 8 dark 

 brownish black ; hypopygium reddish yellow, with greenish 

 tints. INIale hypopygium with the sclerites fused into a ring. 

 Ninth tergite with the elongate median lobe narrow, 

 depressed, the caudal margin with a U-shaped notch, the 

 adjacent lobes slightly divergent, unarmed. 



Hub. Cameroun. 



Holotype, S, Elat, 1920 {J. A. Reis). 



XVI. — Notes on the Asilinse of the South African 

 and Oriental Regions. By Gertrude Ricardo. 



Promachus beesoni, ^ ? , sp. n. 



Type (male) and four other males, type (female) and one 

 other female, all from Mohnyin River, Katha, Burmah 

 (C. F. C. Beeson), caught between May 15th and 25th in 

 1918. In the Forest Research Zool. Coll. some of the speci- 

 mens have the appearance of only just having emerged from 

 the pupae. 



A large blackish species with long yellow hairs on the 

 legs, which are chiefly black. Moustache, beard, and hairs 

 of palpi yellow. Genitalia large, black-haired; ovipositor 



