214 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidee. 
Philodicus species, as the ovipositor is described as having a 
circlet of spines. Legs testaceous. 
Promachus duvaucelii, Macq. 
Dipt. Exot. i. (2) p. 218 (1838) [ Trupanea}. 
A pair from Dehra Dun, U.P., India, Nov. 1907 (Zt.-Col. 
I’, W. Thompson), I. M. 8.,.1908-21. 
One male (Dr. Smith), 68, 4, and one female with no 
locality stated. 
Macquart’s very insufficient description is as follows :— 
Black. Palpi red-haired. Thorax with red tomentum 
and black bands. Abdomen with the three first segments 
red-haired. Legs black. Wings yellow. 
Length, ¢ ¢, 12-16 mm. 
Face, moustache, and beard yellow. An obscure streak 
in the marginal and first submarginal cells. . 
From Bengal. 
A species varying in size, the females larger than the 
males. Distinguished by the bright reddish-yellow pubes- 
cence disposed as tufts on the first three segments of 
abdomen and as ordinary pubescence on the remaining 
segments, thickest here in the female. Moustache and beard, 
hairs on posterior part of thorax and on the scutellum the 
same bright colour, and the thorax coloured the same between 
the black stripes. Moustache has some black hairs on its 
upper part in the male only. Leys black with chiefly black 
pubescence, some white is present especially in the female. 
Genitalia of male black, shining, with black hairs, the upper 
forceps large club-shaped, the lower pair small, the under- 
side of the last segment produced and bordered with short 
black hairs. Ovépositor short and small. 
Length, ¢ 15, 2 18 mm. 
Since this paper was sent to press, Mr. J. E. Macpherson, 
Officer in Charge, Forest Zoologist’s Office, Dehra Dun, 
India, has sent me some Asilide for identification, the 
greater number being a long series of males and females of 
this species; the males have no black hairs in the mous- 
tache. All were captured at Dehra Dun. 
Promachus marcii, Macq. 
Dipt. Exot. 1. (2) p. 213 (1838) [ Zrupanea). 
A male from Gundumri, Bhandani, 1.xii1.1912 (A. D. Imms), 
in jungle, 
A species nearly allied to Promachus duvaucelii, Macq., 
who deseribes it thus :— 
