62 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 
Neoitamus hindostani, 8 3, sp. n. 
Male (type) from Dharmoti, Kumaon, 8. 6. 1912. 
Female (type) from same locality, 9. 6. 1912; and other 
males and. females from Shum Ket, 15. 5.1912; and Bhowah, 
July 1909, and 20. 6. 1912 (Imms Coll.). 
A typical, well-defined, medium-sized species, yellowish 
grey in colour with dark brown spots on the abdomen, and 
stripes on the thorax; tibiz reddish yellow. Moustache 
yellowish. 
Keneth;, sl7; 4 -F9 mm: 
Male.—Face silky yellowish, tubercle darker. Moustache 
thick, yellowish. Beard yellowish. Pa/pi black, with yellow 
hairs. Antenne blackish brown, the first two joints with 
black hairs, the arista of third joint as long as the joint. 
Forehead darker than face with some black -hairs. The 
hairs round head paie yellowish, meeting the postocular 
bristles, which are black. Thoraz with the usual black-brown 
stripes ; presutural bristles four, two large and two smaller ; 
supra-alar three, postalar three to four; dorso-central bristles 
ten to twelve, not so stout, long fine black hairs are inter- 
mixed with these, and the pubescence on the dorsum is 
short, black. Scutellum with five to seven black bristles on 
its margin and long yellow hairs on its dorsum. Abdomen 
ashy grey, covered by a large dark brown spot on each seg- 
ment; these sementations niler, the first segment with many 
long yellow hairs and a few yellow bristles ; these are con- 
tinued on the sides of the other segments, with about four 
stout yellow bristles on the postericr border at side of each 
segment, as far as the fourth segment. Genitalia large, 
black, au little red below, with black pubescence. Legs 
black, the tibize yellowish red, darker at their extreme 
apices ; the fore and mid coxee with dense white hairs ; the 
fore femora with white short pubescence and some long, fine, 
black and yellow hairs below ; the middle femora with four 
rows of short stout bristles at the base below and on the 
sides, aud two or more weak yellow bristles at the apex; the 
hind femora with four yellow short bristles on the upper- 
side and two near the apex, two weak small black ones at 
apex, below are jong yellow hairs aud weak yellow bristles 
with one or more black bristles intermixed ; tibize and tarsi 
with black bristles, the tibiee with pale yellow short pubes- 
cence on the sides, the middle and hind pair with black 
pubescence on the inner sides; the fore tibiz with two or 
three iong, weak, black bristles. Wings clear, the grey 
