654 ASILID^ 



China should form a new genus intermediate between Pamponcrus and 

 PolypTionius. Two or three species of Pamponerus have been recorded 

 from South Asia. 



1. P. germanicus Linue. AVings pale on nearly the basal half but 

 conspicuously darker on the rest. Tibise and tarsi mainly bright orange. 



A very distinct large fly. 



$ . Blackish brown with indistinct greyish yellow markings on the thorax. Face 

 moderately narrow at its upper part but gradually widening downwards until 

 it is quite twice as wide at the mouth ; frons with the usual slight dilatation 

 above the antennae but soon contracting to the same width as at the antennae 

 and widening but very little round the upjier eye-angles ; face blackish on all 

 the middle part but with minute orange tomentum under the face-beard, and 

 covered with brownish orange tomentum on all the (otherwise) bare sides, and 

 even the bare space just under the antennae rather orange dusted when seen 

 sideways ; knob very large and rounded, occupying fully three-quarters of the 

 face (when seen sideways), shelving back to the lower mouth-edge and leaving 

 about the upper fifth of the face quite free and bare ; face-beard occupying the 

 whole of the face-knob, long and rather drooping, composed of black bristly 

 hairs on the upper part (just the uppermost hairs being rather shorter than 

 the others) and rather thinner yellow bristly hairs on the lower part quite 

 away to the lower mouth-angle, but the hairs quite close to the lower mouth- 

 angle are shorter and very thin, and sometimes the black bristly hairs of the 

 upper i^art extend a little way down outside the yellow hairs ; jowls small ; 

 chin and lower third of the back of the head clothed with long coarse yellow 

 hairs, and the pubescence on the lower part of the back of the head extending 

 close up to the eyes ; about the middle of the back of the head at some 

 distance from the eyes a postocular row of strong but not very long black 

 bristles commences which extends up to the vertex but is widely separated 

 by the postvertical channel from the corresponding row on the other side ; 

 these bristles form the festoon and (at any rate the upper ones) are rather 

 bent over forwards at their tips, and about the middle part of the head some thin 

 yellow pubescence occurs between these black bristles and the eyes, but 

 otherwise the space on the upper part between the bristles and the eyes is 

 bare and greyish yellow ; longer dense yellow pubescence exists behind the 

 festoon, while near the vertex some of these hairs are strongly bent forwards ; 

 frons blackish and shining on the raised ocellar space and on the depressed 

 middle part just below the ocelli, and the raised ocellar space bearing numerous 

 long thin black bristly hairs which radiate rather forwards but of w^hich the 

 anterior hairs are rather the shorter ; sides of the frons (below the ocellar 

 space) bearing greyish yellow tomentum and some black bristly hairs 

 Avhich soon become more numerous (about four wide) and longer as they 

 extend down towards the antennte, and these hairs are bent forwards. Proboscis 

 black, with the usual short orange brown pubescence about the tip and long 

 pale hairs beneath on about the basal half ; palpi upturned and rather short, 

 bearing some rather sparse long pale hairs. Antennae rather long and thin, 

 dull black or with the two basal joints sometimes reddish brown ; basal joint 

 slightly longer than the second, cylindrical, bearing a little grey dust, and 

 with long black bristly haii's beneath but short ones above ; second joint 

 rather cup-shaped, and bearing shorter black In-istly hairs ; third joint almost 

 as long as the two basal ones together, strap-shaped but rather tapering, quite 

 bare ; style about two-thirds as long (or as long) as the third joint, distinctly 

 two-jointed, the basal joint being short but the second joint long rather thin 

 and pointed. 



Thorax greyish yellow with (when viewed rather sideways) three broad 

 brownish black stripes ; middle stripe considerably widened out anteriorly 

 and indistinctly split all down its length by a greyish line, but not reaching 

 the hindmargin ; side stripes long ovate, beginning about half-way between 

 the front and the suture and continued to about midway between the suture 



1 



