Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 391 
with strong black bristles on their underside and black 
hairs above, the third joint nearly as long as the first two 
joints together, the arista barely half as long as the third 
joint. Forehead with black bristly hairs, rather numerous. 
The curved bristles black and strong, the hairs continued 
round head and the beard yellowish white. Thorax bronze- 
green covered with yellowish tomentum, the median stripe 
split in middle and the side ones distinct ; pubescence on 
dorsum short and black. Mane thin, composed of scanty 
black hairs, becoming longer posteriorly, surrounded from 
just before the suture by powerful black bristles, those at 
the side of the same nature ; some weak yellowish-white 
hairs are present below the two postalar bristles and also 
on sides. Scutellum with weak but long yellowish-white 
bristles on its posterior border and weak yellowish hairs on 
its dorsum, some black hairs in centre are present as con- 
tinuation of the mane, which posteriorly has some weak 
yellow hairs beyond the black bristles. Abdomen covered 
with glistening yellow tomentum, thickest at sides and on 
the segmentations, leaving a large dark blackish spot visible 
on each segment, the pubescence black on these spots, 
yellow at sides and also in the centre of the first two 
segments, the bristles long yellow, two or three deep; 
underside with long soft yellow hairs and a few yellow 
bristles only. Genitalia short, black, the upper forceps 
swollen with short point, the under pair nearly as long; all 
with chiefly black hairs and a few shorter yellow ones. 
Legs bronze-coloured, with close whitish pubescence ; the 
fore femora with long pale yellow hairs below, the middle 
pair the same, the hind pair with shorter black and white 
hairs ; fore tibiz with black hairs below, and appressed 
orange hairs and long yellowish hairs on their outer edges, 
the middle pair the same, the hind pair with the long hairs 
black and white; the tarsi with whitish hairs, the bristles 
on legs chiefly black, a few reddish-yellow ones present. 
Wings greyish, the small transverse vein beyond the middle 
of discal cell oblique, curved. 
Female identical. Ovipositor short, about the length of 
the last segment, ending in a curved point, on which the 
pubescence is short, orange-red, elsewhere a few black hairs ; 
on the underside on the posterior border of the last segment 
are four black weak bristles, not present in the male; in 
other females they are more than four and scattered on 
dorsum. 
