South African and Oriental Asilin?e. 179 



PhUodicus dubiuSj (J ? , sp. n. 



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

 M'Fongosi, Zululand {IF. E. Jones), March 1911, in Cape 

 Museum Coll. 



A large species, in general appearance resemhling 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 tomentum. Moustache 

 composed of yellow bristles and some finer white hairs, one 

 black biistle near oral opening. Palpi with white hairs. 

 Beard white. Forehead same colour as face with some yellow 

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

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

 part of head with reddish-yellow bristles. Thura.v with the 

 usual stripes, with black pubescence and longer fi^e white 

 hairs posteriorly between the stout black bristles. Scutellum 

 with two black bristles and short white iiairs. 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, sliort, yellow pubescence. Leys reddish, femora 

 blackish below, and hind tibiae largely black; pubescence on 

 legs thick short and pale-coloured ; bristles chiefly white, 

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

 in apex faint; veins brown. 



Female identical; the bristles on scutellum are red. Fore 

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

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

 Ovipositor sliort, reddish. 



PhUodicus gracilis, v. d. Wulp. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1899, p. 92, pi. iii. fig. 5 (1899). 



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



This specimen answers in all particulars to the description, 

 with the small exception of the palpi, which are black, not 

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



PhUodicus temerarius, (^ $ , Walker. 



Dipt. Ins. Saiind. i. p. 121 (1851) ; et List Dipt, vii., Suppl. .3, p. 596 

 (1855) [Trupaned]; Loew, Dipt. Sud-AtVik. i. p. 127 (1800) 

 l^ProutacIius]. 



[PhUodicus obscuripes, Loew, Dipt. Siid-Afrik. i. p. 139 (18GG).] 



Tvpe (female) from Senegal {JV. \V. Saunders), other 



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