Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidee. 219 
Length, ¢ 35, ? 32-33 mm. 
Male.—Face covered with glistening yellow tomentum. 
Moustache composed of many large yellow bristles, and 
shorter yellower hairs are continued to the antenne. Palpi 
with yellow hairs and black hairs and bristles at the apices. 
Antenne blackish, the first two joints with black and yellow 
hairs. Forehead with black bristly hairs and some yellow 
hairs. Hind part of head with yellow bristles in the centre 
and below stout black bristles. Thorax brownish with 
brown-yellow tomentum and darker stripes ; pubescence 
black, with black bristles posteriorly and some yellow hairs. 
Scutellum with a double row of black bristles and yellow 
hairs inside. Abdomen black with broad grey tomentose 
bands, the black being represented by the usual large spots ; 
pubescence on the bands yellow, on the spots black. Geni- 
talia with a small tuft of white hairs, the upper forceps 
more slender than those of P. fasciatus, ending in a point, 
the under pair very small ; the underside of the last segment 
produced as a black almost square piece, very distinct, es 
long as the under forceps and together with the rest of geni- 
talia covered with black pubescence. Legs reddish yellow 
with black bristles and chiefly short yellow pubescence. 
Wings large, clear ; veins reddish yellow. 
Females identical. Ovipositor composed of the last seg- 
ment, very short; black, shining, with black hairs and a few 
lighter ones at apex. 
Promachus leoninus, Loew. 
Linn, Ent. iii. p. 404 (1848); Wlk. List Dipt. Brit. Mus. vii., Suppl. 3, 
p- 592 | Trupanea] (1855) ; Loew, Berlin, ent. Zeit. xii. p. 872 (1868) ; 
v.d. Wulp, Tijd. v. Ent, xli. p. 131, pl. iv. figs. 6-8 (1898) ; et xlii. 
p. 45 (1899). 
One male from 8. Shan States, Upper Burmah, 4000 ft., 
Nov. 1899 (Lt.-Col. Bingham), 1902, 31. 
One male and one female from Sikkim, 1903 (Ff A. 
Miller). Presented by Lt.-Col. Bingham. 
_ A species originally described by Loew from the Greek 
Islands and Asia Minor, and recorded by him later from 
Mersina in Asia Minor. V.d. Wulp recorded it from India. 
A species at once distinguished by the bright orange-red 
pubescence on abdomen, and the same-coloured hairs on 
scutelium and posterior part of thorax. Moustache and 
pubescence of forehead, beard, and hairs on palpi all bright 
yellow. Legs black, the tibiz reddish yellow. Genitalia of 
male short, stout, covered with a thick tuft of white hairs. 
Female with an extremely short oviposiior. 
Length, g 22, ? 18mm. 
