234 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidee. 
a male present in the Brit. Mus. Coll. is mentioned in 
Suppl. vil. as from China (presented by T. Lay, Esq.), but no 
description of it is given; another male is from China 
(Walker Coll.), 92, 196, and females from N. China, 51, 14, 
and Foochow, China, 91, 100. . ‘ 
A species distinguished by yellow bands on the abdomen, 
by the red tibiz, and by the white tuft of hairs on the 
genitalia. Moustache yellow. Palpi with yellow hairs. 
Length, 2 22-24, ¢ 24-26. 
Female.—Face covered with the soft yellow hairs of mous- 
tache. Beard yellow. Antenne blackish. Thorax blackish 
with yellow tomentum as stiipes and at the sides. Scutedlwin 
covered with yellow hairs and with one or two black bristles. 
Abdomen with a deep black spot on each segment, bordered 
with a grey tomentum, band extending to the sides, both 
covered with short yellow hairs, the pubescence on the black 
spots chiefly short, yellow. Ovipositor composed of the last 
segment blue-black, shining. Legs black, tibie red. Wings 
clear, veins yellow. 
Male identical. Scutellum with many more black bristles. 
Genitalia with a tuft of white hairs, the upper forceps short, 
club-shaped, the lower pair short, the under pair produced, 
all with long black pubescence. 
Promachus leucopygus, W1k. 
Trans. Ent, Soc. Lond. n. ser. iv. p. 129 [ Zrupanea] (1857). 
Type (male) from China (Saunders Coll.), 68, 4. 
A species nearly allied to Promachus anicius, W1k., but 
distinguished by the hind tibiz only being yellowish. 
Length ]0 mm. 
- The vellow hairs on the scutellum are very bushy, and are 
also very thick on the hind part of the thorax. Abdomen 
with the first three segments bordered with numerous yellow 
hairs, the remaining segments with black hairs. Genitalia 
with a thick white tuft of hairs nearly concealing them; they 
are small and short. Tibiz (hind pair) are said by Walker 
to be testaceous with black apices, the rest of the legs pre- 
sumably black. In this type the fore pair are black, the 
middle pair are wanting. 
Promachus yesonicus, Bigot. 
Ann. Soc, Ent. France, (6) vii., Bull. 79, 3 (1887). 
Promachus ater, Coquillet, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 37 (1898): 
A male from Japan (G. Lewis), 1910,320 ; another from 
