52 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 
pubescence and by the longer, more pointed eighth ventral 
segment. 
Machimus montanus, & 9, sp. Nn. 
Type (male), type (female), and others from Kotagiri, 
Nilghiri Hills, 6000 feet (F. M4. Cragg). 
A small greyish species, very similar in appearance to the 
European M. atricapillus, but at once distinguished from it 
by the eighth ventral segment, which is not two-horned. 
Legs black with reddish stripes, all the bristles black. 
Length, ¢ 13-14, 9? 15 mm. 
Male—Face covered with greyish tomentum ; the tubercle 
blackish, large, covered with the black moustache, which is 
composed of very strong black bristles with weaker white 
ones below. Palpi black, with black bristly hairs. Beard 
aud hairs round head white. The postocular bristles stout, 
black, curved forwards. Forehead blackish mm the centre, 
greyish yellow at the sides with a few black hairs and two 
or three white hairs. Antenne blackish brown, with black 
bristly hairs on the first two joints. Thorax yellowish 
grey with the median blackish-brown stripe very distinct, 
becoming a little narrower posteriorly; sides with paler- 
coloured, broad, interrupted stripes, not extending far beyond 
the suture; dorsum of thorax with small black bristles; two 
very strong presutural bristles, two supra-alar, and three 
postalar, all very strong; the dorso-central ones number 
about twelve, with weaker ones intermixed, only twe being 
presutural. Scutellum yellowish grey, with some weak 
yellow and black bristles and with four large black marginal 
bristles curved forwards. dbdomen brownish grey or blackish 
grey, the segmentations lighter; the dorsum covered with 
very smali, depressed, black bristles, and with longer yellow 
hairs at the sides. Genitalia reddish, the claspers blackish 
at apices; pubescence yellowish; the eighth ventral segment 
produced, ending in a point with long black hairs which 
extend to the sides, on its inside it is reddish yellow in 
colour. 
Legs blackish; the femora reddish on their outer sides ; 
tibiz only black ou their undersides; tarsi reddish, apices 
black ; femora and coxe with long white hairs, thickest on 
the fore pair, the middle pair with four strong bristles in 
the middle and two at their apices, the hind pair with three 
near the apices and two or more nearer the base and others 
beneath ; the tibize with numerous long black bristles and 
with some weak yellowish hairs, which are long on the front 
