682 ASILID^ 



yellowish white and tending to form bands across the second and third 

 segments (more especially the second) a little before each hindmargin ; it 

 is long and outspread at the sides of the two basal segments, and also to a 

 less degree at the sides of the third, and is faintly traceable at the 

 sides of the fourth, and a short black pubescence extends broadly down 

 the middle of the sixth and seventh and more narrowly on the fourth and 

 fifth segments ; close against the bare hindmarginal hems of the three 

 basal segments are fringes of yellow depressed hairs which become longer 

 and include towards each side of the row on the basal segment about 

 six (4-6) long bristly haii's intermingled with the thinner hairs, on the second 

 segment about four such bristly hairs, on the third segment about four, on 

 the fourth segment about two which are rather more distinct because there 

 are only shorter yellow hairs near, and against the remaining hindmargins 

 three or four weak bristly hairs near each side ; eighth segment distinct and 

 not much shorter than the seventh. Belly dark ashy grey, with scattered 

 long yellowish white or fawn yellow pubescence which becomes more black 

 haired on the rather swollen shining black eighth segment. Genitalia not 

 very large nor very much swollen, shining black and black haired except on 

 the bare ferruginous under parts, the hairs becoming rather rigid near the 

 inner ends and apical halves of the claspers ; claspers (when seen sideways) 

 moderately stout and long, being nearly three times as long as deep, but when 

 seen from above their inner margin is almost straight and their upper 

 surface is considerably excavated before the middle, they are more widened 

 out above than below so that the lower angles at the tip may touch while 

 the upper angles are somewhat separated, and consequently the claspers 

 (seen from above) enclose a long narrow ovate space which is not quite closed 

 at the tip ; lower lamellae short and black, with a pair of large crescent- 

 shaped ferruginous bare lamelloe inside them and between those is the long 

 prong-like bare ferruginous middle organ. 



Legs black and orange ; the orange colour being limited to all the tibias 

 except the tip, and frequently even the underside of the tip rather 

 brown, while in dark specimens the whole underside of the tibiae is said 

 to be dark brown (though I have not seen it so), though sometimes 

 the base of the tarsi is narrowly orange ; coxse covered with light 

 grey " dust, and with abundant drooping long whitish or fawn yellow 

 pubescence on the front part of the front pair, and with similar but 

 less abundant pubescence on the outer side of the posterior pairs ; femora 

 shining blue black. Pubescence of the legs altogether very slight, there 

 being scarcely any long pubescence except that hereafter mentioned in 

 connection with the bristles, while the usual short depressed pubescence 

 is mostly pale, but is black on the upper side of the front femora, on 

 most of the middle femora, and on the front of the hind femora, and dense 

 felt-like orange pubescence occurs on the apical two-thii'ds of the anterior 

 side of the front tibias, on the apical half of the posterior side of the hind 

 tibite, and beneath the basal joint of the hind tarsi; the ordinary short pale 

 pubescence behind the hind femora is abundant and not so short as usual 

 but still not nearly so long as in continental specimens mentioned later on. 

 Bristles almost all black ; front femora with one or two anterior subapical 

 and with about six long bristly hairs beneath on the basal two-thirds, postero- 

 dorsal bristles absent ; front tibiae with three or four long postero-ventral 

 bristly hairs, about three (2-5) rather small slightly antero-dorsal bristles and 

 one rather longer dorsal near the base, and a few long fine hairs beneath ; 

 middle femora with a few bristly hairs beneath similar to those on the front 

 pair or with from three to five stouter bristly hairs there, two or three strong 

 anterior bristles, three or four strong antero-ventral not after the middle, and 

 one curved postero-dorsal near the tip ; middle tibiae with two or three 

 antero-dorsal bristles near the middle, two small postero-dorsal near the 

 middle, and about three (3-5) long almost hair-like postero-ventral and two 

 stouter antero-ventral after the middle ; hind femora wdth about five long 

 rather weak bristles beneath and one specially long thin hair near the middle, 

 three or four antero-ventral before the middle, three or four anterior near 

 and before the middle (the one near the middle being orange or sometimes 

 all of them blackish orange), one rather long antero-dorsal near the tip, and 



