50 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidee. 
Machimus indianus, § 2, sp. u. 
Type (male) from near Bhowali (Kumaon), 5700 feet, 
July 1909. 
Type (female) from Sham Ket, near Bhowali, 15.5. 1912. 
Other specimens from Dharmoti, 5300 feet; Bhim Tal ; 
Takula; Airades; Chaubattia; Sat Tal; all localities in 
Kumaon. May and June 1912. 
One male from Thundiani, W., Himalayas, 9000 feet, 
4. 7.1907 (Major H. A. Morgarth), 1907, 273. 
Two females and one male from Mussooree, U.P. 
(T. £. Middleton), 1911, 448. 
A rather large black species with white bands on the 
abdomen. Moustache white. Fore femora with usually 
three bristles below. Wings shaded at apex, on fore border, 
and on posterior border, leaving only the centre of wing 
clear. 
Length, ¢ 19-23, 2 19-22 mm. 
Male.—Face covered with yellowish-grey tomentum ; the 
tubercle large, blackish, covered by the long, strong, yellow 
bristles which form the moustache, with two black bristles 
below on each side. Pa/pi black, with black hairs. Beard 
white and thick; the hairs round head white, becoming 
bristles posteriorly. Antenne blackish, the first two joints 
with black hairs, the third with a style two-thirds of its own 
length. Forehead with yellow short hairs on each side. 
Postocular bristles stout and black, curved forwards. Collar 
with chiefly yellow bristles. Thorac yellowish brown, the 
median stripe dark brown, with a very narrow pale line 
dividing it anteriorly. Przesutural bristles three, supra-alar 
two, postalar two, sometimes three, all very strong black ones; 
dorso-central bristles about ten. Dorsum covered with very 
small, black, appressed bristles, a few long black hairs between 
the dorso-central bristles. Scut¢edlum same colour as thorax, 
with yellowish pubescence and four very strong marginal 
bristles turned upwards. Addomen yellowish grey, with dark 
blackish-brown square spots on each segment, so that the 
abdomen viewed generally appears blackish, with the seg- 
mentations whitish yellow; the first segment is armed with 
numerous black bristles of different sizes, on the sides with 
yellowish ones, which are also present on the sides of mest 
of the segments, advancing towards the centre of dorsum on 
the anterior segments; short yellowish hairs are intermingled 
with these and continued above the hind margins of seg- 
ments; underside with long weak white hairs; genital organs 
large, black, with short yellowish pubescence ; the eighth 
