218 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 
reaches antenne. Palpi with pale hairs. Antenne black. 
Forehead with yellow hairs anteriorly and black hairs 
posteriorly. Bristles on occiput all yellow. Thorax covered 
with brownish-yellow tomentum, stripes not very distinct, 
posterior part of dorsum with black bristles and some 
whitish hairs. Abdomen conical, stout ; pubescence white on 
the segmentations, black on the spots, white at the sides and 
below. Ovipositor black, shining, very short. Legs bright 
reddish ; the cox, apices of femora, and tibie and tarsi 
deep black ; pubescence chiefly white, bristles black. Wings 
large, clear ; veins yellow. 
Promachus macuiaius, Fabr. 
Syst. Ent. 794, 17 [Aszlus] (1775), etc., see Kertesz Cat. 
Promachus flavibarbis, Macq, Dipt. Exot. i. (2) p. 212 (1838) [ Trwpanea]. 
Promachus copillus, Walker, List Dipt. ii. p. 889 (1849) [ Asilus]; et vii, 
Suppl. 8, p. 607 [ Trupanea} (1855). 
Type of P. copillus (male and female), from India. 
Males from Trincomalee, Hot Wells, Ceylon (Yerbury), 
Males and females from Bangalore (Capt. E. Y. Watson). 
A female from Colombo (G. Meade Waldo). 
Macquart’s species is evidently identical with this widely 
distributed species, he describes the hind tarsi as black. 
V.d. Wulp says they are darker. In the above specimens 
the tarsi appear usually dark reddish with black apices or 
nearly wholly black. 
A large species distinguished by the yellow bands on the 
abdomen, surrounding the usual black spots. Moustache 
yellow. Palpi yellow-haired. Scutellum with black bristles 
and yellow hairs. (Genitalia with a tuft of white hairs, the 
upper forceps large and forked, the inner part short, the 
outer piece long, the lower forceps small, the last segment 
is slightly produced on the underside. Ovipositor short. 
Legs reddish. 
Wiedemann gives the length as 24-28 mm. He remarks 
it is not found in Italy as alleged, but he has examples from 
the Caucasus. 
Promachus pseudomaculatus, sp. 0. 
Type (male) from Nilaveli, Ceylon, 19. vii. 91 (Lt.-Col. 
Yerbury). 
Cotypes (two females) from same locality and Kuchavelli, 
Ceylon. 
A large species very nearly allied to Promachus maculatus, 
F., but the femora have a black stripe above and the tibiz at 
apices and all tarsi are black. 
