220 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidee. 
Promachus yerburiensis, sp. u. 
Type (male), type (female) in coitu, Trincomalee, Ceylon, 
18. vi. 91 (Lt.-Col. Yerbury), and a series of males and 
females from Ceylon. 
A male and other specimens from Guindy, Madras (Cragg 
Coll.). Female and other specimens from Coimbatore, 
S. India, I. E. E. Coll. 
A fair-sized species. Abdomen with black spots and broad 
greyish bands. Moustache whitish, black below. Legs 
blackish, the tibiz reddish yellow. Scutellum with yellow 
and black bristles. Genitalia of male simple. Ovipositor 
long. 
Length, g 25, 2? 28-29 mm. 
Male.—Face covered with pale yellowish tomentum. 
Moustache composed of whitish-yellow bristles with two or 
three black bristles interspersed and a row fringing the oral 
aperture, whitisb-yellow shorter bristly hairs are continued 
to the base of the antenne. Palpi with black hairs and 
some yellow hairs at the base. Beard white. Antenne 
black with white hairs on the first two joints. Pubescence 
on forehead black with some white hairs. Bristles on occiput 
black. Yhorax black covered with greyish tomentum, the 
stripes distinct, pubescence of short black hairs, some longer 
white ones with strong black bristles on the posterior half. 
Scutellum with black and yellow bristles and long white 
hairs. Abdomen with rather dense short pubescence, black 
on the spots, yellowish grey on the pale parts and on the 
first segment and partially on the second segment ; hairs at 
sides and on the underside chiefly yellowish. Genitalia not 
large, the upper pair of forceps black, shining, club-shaped, 
the under pair short, stout, both with black hairs, the 
preceding segment black, shining. Legs blackish, tibiz 
black at apices, all bristles black; pubescence black, white 
and loug on the underside of femora, on the hind pair 
interspersed with black hairs, tibiz with chiefly short yellow 
pubescence, but short black hairs are also present. Wings 
shorter than the body. 
Female identical. Ovipositor long, composed of the last 
three segments. 
Table for Species east of Cochin China and Burmah. 
1. Abdomen with bands or tufts of lighter- 
coloured hairs at base ............ 2. 
Abdomen with no such bands or tufts. 5. 
2, Wegs wholly*black 7 pico lacs ssc chee bifasciatus, F. 
Legs partly reddish, femora black above. 3 
