Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide, 57 
on large tubercle composed of stout black bristles and a few 
weaker yellow ones below. Pa/pi black with black pubes- 
cence. Beard pale yellow. Proboscis clothed with pale 
yellow on its under surface. Antenne black; the tirst two 
joints with black hairs and bristles, the third bare, the 
second is two-thirds the length of the first; the third is 
almost as long as the first two joints together, with a 
terminal bristle nearly as long as itself. Morehead same 
colour as face, with black hairs. Thorax with a median and 
side stripes deep black in colour, the rest of the dorsum is 
clothed with golden-yellowish tomentum and with short 
black hairs. Presutural bristles three, supra-alar two, 
postalar two; the dorso-central bristles numerous, reaching 
the snture, all are stout and black, interspersed with smaller, 
finer, bristle-like hairs. Scutellum the same golden yellow 
as thorax or rather paler with short black pubescence and 
with four very stout black bristles on its posterior border, 
Abdomen blackish, showing traces of yellowish, or grey, or 
brown tomentum, with bright yellow hairs on the posterior 
borders of segments, which become longer and more like 
bristles at the sides; the dorsum elsewhere with fine black 
pubescence ; underside greyish yellow, with vellow pubes- 
cence. Genitalia large and prominent, black with black 
hairs; the last segment on the underside with a finger-hke 
stout process clothed with black hairs, which are thick at 
the tip, it is aimost twice the length of the usual width of 
the segment. Legs deep black, with black bristles; the coxe 
and the fore femora below with bright, soft, yellow, long hairs; 
the other femora with only short yellow pubescence on their 
upper and lower borders and with short black bristles and 
longer ones below which are sometimes yellow on the hind 
pair; the fore tibie also with long yellow hairs not so 
numerous, and with black and some yellow bristles, the 
black bristles on the outer side are very long, two or more 
in number; the middle tibiz have not these, but yellow and 
black bristles of ordinary size and with some short yellow 
pubescence on their outer borders, the hind pair with black 
pubescence and bristles, and reddish or yellowish fringes of 
short hairs below on each apical border; the tarsi with black 
hairs and bristles, the first joint of hind pair with reddish 
or yellowish fringes in some of the specimens. W2ngs clear, 
grey at apex and on posterior border, leaving only the base 
and centre of wing clear; the small transverse vein this side 
of the middle of discal cell, 
Kemale.—The yellow hairs on moustache are much less 
numerous, the yellow beard in both sexes is very thick and 
