ASILID^ 765 



all yellow. Thoracic stripes blackish brown and all rather coalescing ; all 

 the short pubescence very short, but the bristles long and very distinct ; four 

 very distinct black dorso-central bristles after the suture, but all the others 

 very distinctly yellow except two strong black praesutural ; scutellum with 

 two not stout long obscure yellow bristles. Abdominal incisures almost as 

 in P. albiceps; ovipositor very much compressed. Basal half of the tibiae 

 or all the anterior tibia? obscurely reddish ; basal joint of the front tarsi almost 

 brown ; front femora with no pubescence, but with about four rather small 

 yellow spines beneath on the basal half ; all tibial and tarsal l)ristles whitish, 

 except one long anterior and one long posterior on the hind tarsal joints, and 

 also the bristles towards the upper side on the front tarsi, and two antero- 

 ventral spurs on the front tibiae. 



69 3f. coluhrimis Meig. A.fimhriatus Meig. is now somewhat doubtfully considered 



to be a synonym of this, but some species has been recorded as British under 

 that name. Walker (Ins. Brit. Dipt., i., 52) described it and said "Rare. In 

 " the collection of the Entomological Club. (E.)." I am informed that this 

 specimen cannot now be found, but the exponents in the British Museum 

 collection are a male and a female of E. rvfiharhis and two females of 

 1\ alhicejjs. Vice in 1883 (Scottish Naturalist, vii., 11) recorded A.fimhriatus 

 as occurring near Montrose. M. colubrinus is a South European species. 



70 Paritamus genicnlatiis ]\Ieig, Walker (List Dipt. Brit, Mus., i., 468, 1849) 



recorded this species from England, but two years later made no reference to 

 it in his Ins. Brit. Dipt. It is a very probable British species. 



71 Andrenosoma atrmn L. The old English authors, Stewart and Turton, seem to 



have considered this species to have been British. 



72 Lajyhria gibbosa L. Same as the previous species. 



73 L. gilva L. Same as the previous species. 



74 Isopogon hottentottm Fabr. Pascoe in the Proceedings of the Entomological 



Society of London, 1880, iii., recorded this as British, but I can only suppose 

 that he possessed a specimen of the pale-haired form of /. hrevirostris. 



75 Selidopogon diadema Fabr. This fine species has often been recorded as British, 



and with such circumstantial details as to make it probable that it has 

 occurred on our western coasts, but I have never seen an undoubted British 

 specimen. Mr R. C. Bradley told me that he once saw but failed to 

 catch a large blackish Asilid at Barmouth, I believe it was first recorded 

 by Samouelle under the synonym of J). 2>unctatus Fabr. ; then Curtis (Brit. 

 Ent., 153, 1827) recorded it and said "Specimens of this fine insect have been 

 " taken I believe near Bristol, in sandy situations in June and July, and are 

 " in the cabinets of the British Museum and Mr Stephens." Two years later 

 Stephens included it in his Catalogue as having merely been seen by him 

 and in 1846 (lUustr. Brit. Entom. Suppl., 25) he figured and described it, 

 and said " Found, but very rarely, in June, near Swansea, in Glamorganshire." 

 Walker in 1849 (List Dipt. Brit. Mus., 302) noted an English specimen as 

 being in the British Museum, and in 1851 (Ins. Brit. Dipt., i., 57) said "Very 

 " rare ; has been found near Bristol. In the British Museum. (E.)." 



76 Saropogon jugulum Lw. I possess a pair of this species from the late W. W. 



Saunders' collection, which were said to have been caught at Barmouth. 

 I have however but little doubt that they came from Greece, as the species 

 is only known to occur there and in Asia Minor and North Africa. 



