Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 47 
at the base, small transverse vein beyond the middle of 
discal cell. 
Female identical, but the abdomen has some black pubes- 
cence on the dorsum. 
Machimus cerulescens, 8, sp. Nn. 
Type (male) (201) from Bhim Tal, 18. 6. 1912; and 
another male from Binsar, 23. 5. 12 (Imms Coll.), Kumaon. 
A species distinguished from the other species of Machimus 
from India by the blue-black colour of the abdomen. Wings 
deep brown, clear at extreme base. Legs black. Moustache 
yellow with a few black bristles. 
Length 184 mm. 
Face covered with yeliow tomentum; tubercle large, 
blackish, covered by a dense yellow moustache; the black 
bristles are above and at the sides. Beard yellow. Palpz black 
with black hairs. Thorax blackish brown with an indistinct 
median grey line ; shoulders and sides covered with greyish- 
yellow tomentum; preesutural, supra-alar, and postalar bristles 
severally two in number, black ; the dorso-central ones are 
apparently two on each side with black hairs, mostly short, 
but some long ones intermixed on the dorsum. Scutelluwm 
blackish with ashy-grey tomentum, which is also present on 
the posterior part of thorax; bristles on scutellum appear to 
be four in number, now broken off. Abdomen uniformly 
blue-black, with white segmentations on the second, third, 
and fourth segments, appearing again on the apical segments ; 
pubescence black; genitalia black with black hairs, the eighth 
segment below produced to a blunt short point with long 
black hairs. Legs greenish black ; the fore femora with 
black hairs, two or three being long and bristle-like ; middle 
femora stout with a row of short bristles below and two 
longer, very stout ones on the sides; hind femora with four 
or more stout long ones below and black hairs ; tibize with 
numerous stout black bristles and soft black hairs below ; 
tarsi with the same, especially the first joints; some reddish- 
yellow, very short pubescence is visible on the undersides of 
the tibiz. Wings with only the basal cells and part of the 
anal cell clear; small transverse vein oblique, beyond the 
middle of the discal cell. 
Machimus dubius, 3 3 , sp. u. 
Type (male) (177) from Dharmoti, 7. 6. 1912. 
Type (female) (17) from Bhowali, 5700 feet, July 1909 
(A. D. Imms), and others from Takula, all in Kumaon, 
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