60 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 
the femora at base and the knees black. Fore femora devoid 
of bristles, but with long soft black and white hairs below, 
the middle and posterior femora with a few black bristles 
and with short reddish-yellow pubescence ; the tibize also 
have to a lesser extent long fine hairs below and some biack 
bristles. Beard yellowish. 
Length, ¢ 20-28, 9 25-27 mm. 
For a more detailed description, see Schiner. 
Neoitamus ceylonicus, ¢ 2, sp. n. 
Type (male) from Malay Cove, Ceylon, 3. 3. 92. 
Type (female) from Trincomalee, Ceylon, 24. 2. 91 (Lé.- 
Col. Yerbury), 1892, 192. 
A small species very similar in appearance to N. inornatus, 
sp.n., but distinguished by the pubescence and bristles on 
the legs and absence of bristles on fore femora. . 
Length, ¢ 18, 2 15 mm. 
Male.— Moustache is almost wholly black, a few white 
hairs only present. Pepeiturel bristles are black and three 
in number, two supra-alar, three postalar, all black; the 
dorso-central bristles more numerous, all black, with fine, 
long, black hairs intermingled, and a Machimus-like crest of 
airly long hairs on anterior median line of thorax reaching 
the dorso-central bristles ; scutel/wm with four very long 
black bristles, also intermingled with fine, long, black hairs. 
Abdomen bluish black in colourine, with the same design 
as in Neoitamus inornatus ; the bristies at sides chiefly black ; 
genitalia stout, black, and shining, with hlack pubescence. 
Legs blackish ; the tibia reddish yellow, black at apices; tarsi 
with the first joint reddish yellow, the remaining joints 
black; the fore femora have no bristles, but long black hairs 
on underside and a few silvery-white hairs on outer side ; 
the middle femora with the same, but short black bristles 
are present on the uppersides and one at apex; the hind 
femora are the same ; tlie fore tibize have conspicuous, very 
long, black hairs on the outer side intermingled with shorter 
ones, and three short weak black bristles on upperside of 
the base; pubescence short and black; the middle and hind 
tibiz with short black hairs, strong black bristles, and black 
pubescence, on the hind pair rufous below; tarsi with all the 
numerous bristles black. 
Female is dirty and not in good condition, but appears 
identical, the ovipositor including the sixth and seventh 
segments of abdomen. 
