648 ASILID^ 



end of tlie row, and witli a little long pubescence beneath, and the apical circlet 

 yellow ; front tarsi with the usual bristles all strong and yellow, but with 

 the plantar ones black and with those at the end of the fifth joint hardly 

 divergent ; middle femora with two anterior bristles (one before and one 

 after the middle), about four antero-ventral near the middle, about ten very 

 small bristles beneath, and one or two inconspicuous orange postero-dorsal 

 subapical, while the minute pubescence is adpressed and mainly black but is 

 golden on the upper part ; middle tibiae with only short orange bristles, two 

 antero-dorsal, three postero-dorsal, four or five antero-ventral, and two or 

 three postero-ventral, and with the apical circlet short ; middle tarsi with black 

 plantar bristles beneath each joint besides the longer orange bristles, and with 

 the minute adpressed pubescence orange but becoming slightly longer and 

 more erect on the underside ; hind femora with about three (3-5) antero- 

 dorsal bristles of which one or two rather near the base may be either black or 

 orange, one just after the middle black or orange, and one or two nearer the 

 tip orange with the last one longer, rather numerous antero-ventral bristles, 

 about four ventral, and the usual subapical ; hind tibiae with one bristle near 

 the base just antero-dorsal, two quite antero-dorsal (one at the middle and one 

 at three-quarters), four or five antero-ventral of which two or three are after the 

 middle, one just postero-dorsal at one-third the length, and with the apical 

 circlet very short on the upper side ; hind tarsi with a few black plantar 

 bristles, and with black or orange bristles at the tips of the joints. Pulvilli 

 long and almost oblong, dull orange ; empodium represented by a long orange 

 bristle ; anterior claws very long and thin, nearly straight for two-thirds of their 

 length but then sharply curved, orange about the base but becoming black 

 on at least the apical half, hind claws more evenly curved. 



Wings with a brownish yellow tinge and with conspicuous brownish 

 kernels to all the submarginal and posterior cells, of which the one in the 

 first posterior cell forms a long unequal stripe ; discal cell with a small 

 brownish isolated spot near the end of the cell ; axillary cell with a rather 

 large spot which extends to the wingmargin but not to the anal vein ; fork of 

 the cubital vein not so much bell-shaped as usual because the branches run 

 nearly parallel and do not conspicuously diverge at the wingmargin ; third 

 veinlet from the discal cell curving round into the upper branch of the postical 

 vein. Squamae (alar) small, brownish orange, with a long single fringe on the 

 outer part, but with a dense brush-like outspread brownish yellow pubescence 

 on the broad lower margin ; thoracal squamae quite absent, though a peculiar 

 brilliantly shining knob is visible on each side near where the base of each 

 should be. Halteres orange, with blackish knobs. 



? . Very much like the male. Thorax sometimes vsdth the stripes rather darker 

 and the pale line dividing the middle stripe more conspicuous. 



Abdomen tapering from the fourth to the seventh segment (inclusive), but 

 those segments not decreasing in length ; eighth segment very short and 

 (being shining black) appearing to form part of the ovipositor and bearing 

 numerous short rigid black bristles, though sometimes with a narrow greyish 

 hindmargin ; sometimes the tufts on the sides of the second segment are all 

 black haired. Belly with erect short stiff black hairs on the apical half of the 

 seventh segment, and with the short stiff black hairs on the sixth and fifth 

 and even fourth segments more conspicuous than in the male. Ovipositor 

 shining black (or with lurid red reflections), forming a long sharp triangle 

 nearly twice as long as its base is broad and distinctly longer than the seventh 

 abdominal segment, not at all compressed and bearing no apical circlet of 

 bristles but with very short erect sparse black hairs ; terminal lamellae very 

 short and bearing short pale pubescence. Sometimes the sides of the orange 

 part of the abdomen show blackish reflections (when viewed from above) as 

 in the male. 



Legs with rather more numerous bristles ; front femora with four or five 

 postero-dorsal, and seven or eight black ventral bristles on the basal 

 half, whUe the postero-ventral long bristles or hairs seem to be longer and 

 stronger j posterior femora with more numerous (about 14) black bristles 

 beneath m two irregular rows which do not nearly extend to the tip. 



Length about 24 mm. 



