58 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 
continued round head; ovipositor short, not including the 
sixth or seventh segments. Fore femora with not so many 
yellow hairs below aad with some darker ones intermingled, 
more bristle-like in two of the specimens; the bristles on 
scutellum are more numerous. 
Neorramus, Ost.-Sack. 
Cat. Dipt. N. Amer. ed. 2, 82 & 235, 134 (1878). 
Itamus, Loew, Linn. Ent. iv. 847 (13849). 
This genus is represented in the Oriental Region by the 
following species: Nesitamus griseus, Wied; Nevitamus 
longistylus, philus, Wik.—the tormer of these two includes 
SiX synonyms, see below. 
Nevitamus javanensis, De Meijere; Neottamus spinicauda 
and melanopygus, V.d. Wulp. Of these only N. griseus and 
N. philus are recorded from India and Ceylon. Nine new 
species are here described from india and surrounding 
districts, one from the Pbilippines, and one from Tientsin, 
S. China. From the South African Region only Neoitanus 
armatus, Becker, podagricus, Bezzi, aa N. sodalis, d. 
Wulp from Arabia have been described. Two new Be 
are now described. 
All the species are fairly typical of the genus, with the 
exception of N. pulcher from Ceylon and N. philus, Walker. 
Neoitamus griseus, Wied. 
Dipt. Exot, p. 192 [ Aszlus] (1821); Wulp, Tijd. v. Ent. (2) vii. (xv.) 
p. 246 [Itamus | (1872). For other references see Kertesz’s Cat. 
This species has been redescribed by Wulp, but unfortu- 
nately he does not specify very accurately the bristles on 
thorax and legs, and I have not been able to identify it with 
certainty, though a series from Ceylon in the Brit. Mus. 
Coll. may be chi species, which is said to be about 20 mm. 
long, the femora having a black stripe on their upper border, 
otherwise they are reddish yellow. 
Neoitamus philus, 2, Walker. 
List. Dipt. ii. p. 898 [Aszlus] (1849), et vil. Suppl. 3, p. 725 [Aszlus] 
(1855); V. i Wulp, Tijd. v. Ent. xli. p. 145 phoma (1898), et 
xlii. p. 55 [ Ltamus]} (1899). 
Type (female) from Silhet, 45, 107. 
Females from Khasi Hills, Assam (fF. W. L. Sladen), 
purchased from Doncaster, 98, 202; from Khasi Hills, pur- 
chased from li. Heyne, 97, 82; and collected by A. Chennell, 
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