Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. Ad5 
Moustache black. Legs piceous. Wulp thought he identi- 
fied this species among specimens from Java and says the 
genitalia are black. 
Asilus deformis, Walker, from Arabia, the type, a female, 
is in the Brit. Mus. Coll., but, as in the above it is impossible 
to decide what genus it belongs to, it may possibly be 
included in the genus Machimus, and is certainly not in 
Apoclea, where it is placed in Kertesz’s Catalogue. 
Machimus chinensis, 3 2, sp. n. 
Type (male), June 1899, and type (female), 1906, 89, 
from 'Tinghae, China (P. de /a Garde), and another male 
and female from the same locality. 
A large blackish species, covered with yellowish-grey 
tomentum ; tibize and tarsi reddish. Moustache yellow, a 
few black hairs above. 
Length, ¢ 23, 2? 28 mm. 
Male.—Face covered with yellow tomentum; tubercle 
large, darker ; moustache composed of yellow bristles and a 
few black ones above and down the sides. Palpi black with 
yellow hairs. Antenne blackish, the first two joints with 
black hairs, some being very stout bristles, the third joint is 
as long as the first two joints together ; the arista not quite 
so loug as the joint. Forehead with black bristly hairs. 
Thorax covered with greyish-yellow tomentum and the usual 
dark stripes, the median one not divided, a dark rich brown 
in colour, the side ones olive-coloured. Przesutural bristles 
three, supra-alar bristles three, postalar bristles two, one is 
yellow ; dorso-central bristles about ten in number ; pubes- 
cence on dorsum short, black, with some longer hairs 
intermixed. Scutellum with four black bristles on its margin. 
Abdomen covered with yellowish-grey tomentum, with dark 
brown large spots on each segment, the segmentations paler ; 
sides with yellow bristles, continued on to the dorsum; on 
the segmentations pubescence consists of short, thick, ap- 
pressed, fulvous hairs. Genitalia black, with chiefly black 
pubescence ; the eighth ventral segment is produced to a 
short point, clothed with chiefly yellow bristly hairs. Legs 
black ; tibize and tarsi bright reddish yellow, a little darker 
at the apices; fore femora with six bristles below, one near 
apex and two at apex, the middle ones with five below and 
two near apex, the hind ones with four below and two long 
white ones at the extreme base, two black ones on the upper- 
side, two near apex, and two at apex; the pubescence on 
femora is short, yellowish, on tibize and tarsi black. Wings 
