64 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 
short ; the middle femora with three or four yellow bristles 
above and six or so below, pubescence of short black hairs, 
the posterior pair with more numerous yellow bristles above 
and below; the fore tibia with yellow bristles on each side 
and short black hairs; the middle tibiae with the same, but 
two on the underside are longer and stouter, and those 
on the hind pair are stout and numerous; the tarsi with 
numerous black bristles, some yellow ones on the first three 
joints of the front and middle tarsi. Wings (absent). 
Genitalia very short and stout, black. 
Female is identical, the white hairs of moustache largely 
replaced by black bristles. Thorax with the same number 
of bristles, though only three preesutural bristles seem pre- 
sent, two or three of them beinvg yellow; on the other female 
some of the alar bristles are yellow. Abdomen rather 
blacker, the ovipositor including the sixth and seventh seg- 
ments is long, more than half the length of the other 
segments together. The bristles on the underside of fore 
femora are largely black, on the tibize black and yellow, on 
the tarsi chiefly black. Wings clear, very faintly shaded at 
apex and on posterior border, the small transverse vein this 
side of the middle of the discal cell. 
Neoittamus nigrinus, & 2, sp. n. 
Type (male) and type (female), from Cape Engano, North 
Luzon (J. Whitehead), 98, 2U7. 
This handsome species must be allied to Wulp’s species, 
N. spinicauda and melanopygus, both from Celebes. It is 
deep black, the male with silvery-white tufts of hair on tlie 
last two segments of abdomen, and the female has a reddish- 
yellow ovipositor. 
Length, ¢ 20, 2 22 mm. 
Male.—Face black with golden-yellow, tomentum chiefly 
on its lower part. Moustache golden yellow below, black 
above. Palpt black with black hairs. Antenne blackish, 
the third joint dull rufous. Forehead with black hairs; at 
vertex black bristles round the head continued as yellow 
hairs to the proboscis. Thorax black with traces of three 
grey tomentose stripes, sides with a dull yellow tomentose 
stripe. Preesutural bristles two in number, (?) one supra- 
alar bristle, three postalar. bristles, and very many black 
long hairs represent the dorso-ceutral bristles. Scutedlum 
black with black hairs and four or more black bristles on its 
posterior border. Abdomen deep black with black pubescence, 
which is thick at the sides and on the segmentation; the 
