698 ASILID^ 



the lower hind corner of the mesopleurae are yellowish, and the large tuft 

 (hardly a fan) on the metapleurse is formed of very long and conspicuous 

 orange hairs with sometimes some of the front line of hairs black. Scutellum 

 shining black, bearing shorter sparser less erect pale pubescence on the disc 

 and about twenty long radiating almost upright yellow marginal hairs; 

 metanotum almost shining black, quite bare. 



Abdomen shining black, but the last three or four segments dulled by 

 abundant pubescence ; pubescence on the basal two or three segments rather 

 pale yellow, almost erect, and not quite abundant enough to hide the ground 

 colour, but on the last four or three segments denser and more orange or 

 even handsomely reddish orange and (through being less erect) hiding 

 the ground colour; there is no trace of bristles or black hairs. Belly 

 glistening black, bearing long sparse greyish yellow pubescence. Genitalia 

 very large, shining black, and rather bent downwards ; claspers very large 

 and long, three times as long as their base is broad, and (when seen sideways) 

 extending downwards on their end half with a large sickle-shaped margin and 

 with the tip sloping upwards to a slightly acute angle, but when seen from 

 above the basal haK of each clasper is gently excised inwards and a long ovate 

 interval is left between the two ; the basal under-piece is large and swollen, 

 curves up between the margins of the sickle-shaped claspers, and bears at 

 its end a tuft of rather short yellow pubescence ; the rest of the under- 

 piece and the claspers bear rather long black pubescence. 



Legs shining black, clothed with exceedingly abundant long pubescence ; 

 femora all considerably dilated, but the hind pair slender about the base and 

 becoming most dilated at about three-quarters of their length ; anterior tibi^ 

 with about four strong though short dark reddish spurs on the underside ; 

 hind tibiae strong, curved, slightly flattened, and with a short blunt apical 

 spur on the underside. Pubescence on the front coxae and beneath the base 

 of the front femora yellowish or greyish white, but on almost all the rest of 

 the front femora abundant and black with however some of the pubescence on 

 the underside grey and some of the hairs extra long ; front tibiae vnih shorter 

 denser orange red or light brown or brownish yellow pubescence, and 

 with longer rather less dense outstanding postero-ventral greyish _ yellow 

 pubescence, and some black dorsal pubescence intermixed with which are 

 some inconspicuous black bristly hairs, while in addition the apical half is 

 covered antero-ventrally with short reddish orange felt-like pubescence ; front 

 tarsi with similar reddish orange felt-like pubescence on the underside, a.nd 

 with a pair (one antero- and one postero-ventral) of strong drooping reddish 

 bristles on each joint and one similar posterior bristle near the base of the 

 basal joint, whilst some still longer almost erect thinner black or orange 

 bristly hairs occur on the upper side and at the tip ; middle femora with 

 pubescence similar to that on the front pair ; middle tibiae with still longer 

 pubescence, the anterior or antero-dorsal j^ubescence being longest of all 

 though some postero-ventral is almost as long, pale brownish yellow except 

 on the underside where it is black or at least dark, with about six very long thin 

 hairs standing out from the long dense pubescence on the underside ; middle 

 tarsi with bristles almost as on the front pair, but with an anterior bristle 

 near the base of the basal joint ; hind femora with dense long black posterior 

 pubescence which sometimes becomes rusty, but with the anterior pubescence 

 composed of long brownish yellow and denser shorter black hairs with three 

 or four short but strong antero-ventral bristles after the middle which are 

 almost hidden in the longer dense pubescence ; hind tibiae with very long and 

 abundant outstanding pubescence which is apparently bro-miish_ yellow but 

 which may be considerably black on the underside and on the apical half or 

 more, and in which about six reddish orange antero-dorsal bristles can be 

 traced on the basal half, while some rather inconspicuous reddish orange felt- 

 like pubescence covers the hinder side of the tibite and the underside of the 

 tarsi. Pulvilli large and oblong with broad blunt tips, brownish yellow ; 

 claws black, but brownish yellow at the base. 



Wings strongly tinged with brown all about the veins, but paler on the 

 basal part though blackish at quite the base ; costa with some inconspicuous 

 short reddish orange felt on the basal part and in fact the whole costal margin 

 bearing some minute reddish felt ; cubital fork not uncommonly with a slight 



