224 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 
legs, and by the white tuft of hairs on genitalia, which are 
short and small. 
Length, ¢ 22-23, 9 22 mm. 
V. d. Wulp gives it as 193 mm. 
Promachus manilliensis, Macq. 
Dipt. Exot. i. (2) p. 310 [Trupanea] (1888); et Suppl. i. p. 207 
[| Trupanea} (1884) ; Ost.-Sack. Berlin. ent. Zeit. xxvi. p. 111 (1882). 
A female from Cape Engano, North Luzon, Philippines 
(J. Whitehead), 98, 207. 
This specimen answers fairly to the meagre description 
given by Macquart. 
He first described the male as 24 mm. long with two 
white-haired bands on abdomen, and legs externally red. 
Palpi with white hairs, moustache white. Later he added 
the description of a female from the same place, Manila. 
Palpi with black hairs. 
Length 20 mm. 
Face covered with yellow glistening tomentum. Hind 
part of head with black bristles. Thorax velvety black 
with yellowish-brown tomentum at sides. Scutellum the 
same with black bristles. Abdomen the same, with black 
pubescence on all the segments except the first two. Ovi- 
positor short, shining. Legs reddish with black stripes on 
femora, the hind pair more largely black; tibize black at 
apices ; tarsi black; pubescence chiefly black, some yellowish 
hairs on hind femora. Wings clear, veins yellow. 
Length 25 mm. 
Promachus noscibilis,  , Austen. 
Trans. Zool. Soc. London, xx. pt. 13, June 1905, p. 4083. 
One male, the type, from Wataikwa River, Dutch New 
Guinea. . 
The author states this is a species allied to P. bifasciatus, F.., 
but distinguished by the lighter-coloured fore and middle 
tibiz and the smaller genitalia. 
P. manilliensis, Macq., must be nearly allied to this species ; 
the genitalia will probably be found to be different when 
more specimens of each sex in the two species are to hand. 
The legs in Macquart’s species are dull reddish, the femora 
are black above, the hind pair very largely black, as are also 
the hind tibiz. 
In the New Guinea species the legs are entirely black, 
with the exception of the fore and middle tibiz, which are 
yellowish. 
