ge Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidee. 
upper border at sides, below only black bristly hairs are 
present ; posterior femora with four black bristles below, 
two at the apex, and four on the upper border, all bristles 
on the legs are black ; the fore tibie with a regular row of 
black bristles all the same size above and some soft hairs 
intermixed, other stronger bristles below; fore tibiz and 
tarsi, also the posterior tibiz and tarsi, clothed below with 
short rufous pubescence. Wings clear, shaded brown on the 
fore border, at apex, and in the centre of the cells on the 
posterior border. 
Female is similar. Ovipositor black, barely the length of 
the last two segments. 
Machimus parvus, 3 3, 8p. n. 
Type (male) and four other males, 
Type (female) and three other females, all from Kotagin, 
6000 feet, Nilgherri Hills (F. . Cragg). Males and females 
from Trincomalee, Dambula, Ceylon ( Yerhury) ; and from 
Horaweputone, Mahaganay, and Kenaratyodes, Ceylon; one 
female from Biserat, Siam (H. C. Robinson and N. Annandale), 
LOLO; 2%. 
A small species distinguished by the bright red genitaha 
of the male, and in both sexes by the bristles on the 
abdomen being almost entirely black, and by the absence 
of any real bristles on the fore femora. Abdomen black 
with yellowish segmentations. Legs black. 
Length, ¢ 9-10, ? 10-11 mm. 
Male.—Face with yellowish tomentum; tubercle very large, 
covered with stout black bristles and a few white weak 
bristles appearing below, all comprising the moustache. 
Palpi black with black hairs. Beard yellowish. Forehead 
with black hairs. Antenne blackish brown, the style of third 
joint barely more than half the length of joint. Postocular 
bristle black. Thorax greyish with blackish-brown stripes, 
the median divided by a fine line anteriorly. Presutural 
bristles two in number, supra-alar two, postalar two; dorso- 
central bristles about twelve, in two rows extending beyond 
the suture; dorsum of thorax with short black hairs. 
Scutellum with four very long bristles. dAddomen greyish, 
the first segment blackish, the second and third segments 
each with a large black spot having only the anterior and 
posterior borders grey, the fourth and fifth with similar 
spots, but only the posterior borders greyish, the remaining 
segments chiefly grey; all the bristles and hairs on sides 
black; genitalia large, bright red, shining, with some black 
