South African and Oriental Asilinse. 181 



River, Natal, Oct. 1896 {G.A.K. Marshall), is probably the 

 male of this species. 



A small species, measuring 18 mm. 



Female. — Antenna blackish with black hairs. Moustache 

 yellow. Forehead with black and yellow bristles on each 

 side. Hind part of head with white haii's below the stout 

 black bristles. Thorax yellowish brown with two narrow 

 median stripes and the usual side-stripes. Scutellum with 

 two black- bristles. Abdomen blackish covered with whitish 

 tomentura, the usual spots are present ; pubescence on 

 dorsum rather abundant, white, very short. Ovipositor black, 

 long; bristles at sides white, only present apparently on the 

 first two segments, but the type is in poor condition. Legs 

 blackish, femora reddish below and on outer sides, tibiae tlie 

 same, tarsi reddish ; pubescence on legs thick, white, the 

 bristles are black and white, those on the fore femora or 

 underside white, many white ones on tibipe and tarsi. 

 Wings shorter than abdomen, the usual shading at apex. 

 The male mentioned above is probably this species, the 

 genitalia stout reddish with yellow short pubescence ; abdo- 

 men is more reddish. 



Loew's species, Philodicus tenuipes, might possibly be 

 identical with this species, but he speaks of the colour of 

 the insect as yellowish with white tomentura ; his specimen 

 came from Kafifraria. 



Philodicus turinus, ^ , Walker. 



List Dipt. ii. p. 407 [Asilus] (1849); et vii., Suppl. 3, p. 597 [Asilus] 

 (1855) ; Loew, Dipt. Sud-Afrik. i. p. 127 (I860) [Promachus]. 



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

 Morgan). 



Males and females from Yaba, Gold Coast; Lagos; 

 N. and S. Nigeria ; and British E. Africa ; in I. E. E. Coll. 

 from N. Territories, Gold Coast ; and Nyasaland (/. T. 

 Simpson and others). 



The type is in bad condition and the fore femora are more 

 reddish than black below, whereas in the other specimens 

 the fore femora are chiefly black; in other respects these 

 specimens agree with the type. The species is distinguished 

 by tlie yellow or reddish long bristles on the fore tibiae and 

 tarsi ; the fore femora are armed w'ith some bristles on the 

 under surface. 



Length, cT 31-26, ? 23-27 mm. 



Male. — Face blackish, covered with greyish tomentum, 

 yellower at the sides. Moustache composed of long yellow 



