Miss G. Riearidlo on the Asilides. 59 
958,135; from Sikhim, June 1895, 2000 feet (J. G. Pilcher) ; 
97, 120; Taungu, 11, 89 (Bingham Coll.); Hanngtharaw 
River, enasserim, Burmah, Ieb. 1890 (Col. C.F. Bingham), 
96, 282. 
An easily recognized species, not at all typical of the genus, 
however; thorax and sculellum covered with bright reddish- 
yellow tomentum ; ; the short black abdomen has some same- 
coloured tufts of hairs on the first segment, elsewhere the 
pubescence is black ; the ovipositor including the sixth and 
seventh scgmeuts is nearly as long as the rest of the 
abdomen. “Legs reddish yellow; the base of femora and 
knees black. Wings large with yellow veins, shaded grey 
at apex and narrowly so on the posterior border. 
Length 27 mm. 
Neoitamus longistylus, Wied. 
Ausszweifl. Ins. i. p. 483 [Asilus] (1823). For other references see 
Kertesz’s Cat. 
Itanus latro, Dol. 
? Asilus terebatus, Macq. 
Ttamus involutus, Wk. 
Ttamus normals, Wk. 
Ttamus dipygus, Schiner. 
ltamus dentipes, Wulp. 
Asilus vertebratus, Wulp. 
Wiedeman’s species was described from New Guinea and 
the Indian Archipelago ; to the synonyms given by Kertesz 
I have added Walker’s species involutus deserihed originally 
from Ternate, normals fromm the same place, and dipygus, 
Schiner, which was only distinguished by lim from involutus 
by the colour of the tarsi, neh were black in his species, 
not red as in Walker’s species, and the dark colour of the 
wings was more diffused. 
These are all apparently identical with Wiedemann’s 
species—or, at the utmost, local varieties. 
There are specimens of the species in the Brit. Mus. Coll. 
from Ternate, New Guinea (see Austen, Trans. Zool. Soc. 
London, xx. (18) p. 405, 1915), Gilo'o, and Batjan; also 
from Nantauri, Central Group, Nicobar Islands; Dinding, 
Siam; and Biserat, Siam—so that it appears to be a widely 
diffused species. 
A handsome large species with tufts of golden hairs 
on the black abdomen. Male genitalia large and com-- 
plicated, black with black hairs. Female ovipositor very 
long, almost as long as the other segments together; it 
includes the sixth and seventh segments. Legs are yellowish ; 
