66 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 
postalar bristles two, one being black, the other reddish ; 
dorso-central bristles not apparently present, with the excep- 
tion of a few weak, bristle-like, reddish hairs which are also 
present on sides posteriorly. Scutellum reddish, darker 
anteriorly, with two or more weak reddish bristles. Abdomen 
blackish brown with narrow fulvous bands ; dorsum covered 
with yellowish tomentum and with short reddish-yellow 
hairs, which on the anterior borders of the fulvous bands 
become more like short bristles redder in colour ; sides of 
thorax with one long yellowish bristle on each segment inter- 
spersed with long yellow hairs; underside blackish brown 
with the fulvous bands, almost bare of pubescence. Geni- 
talia blackish brown, about as long as the last segment. 
Leys reddish yellow, the knees blackish. Fore and middle 
femora with eight or more black bristles below and three 
stout ones on their upper inner sides; hind femora with 
only two black bristles and reddish hairs below, two dark 
reddish bristles above near the apex; tibize with one or two 
isolated reddish-yellow bristly long hairs and with yellowish 
hairs below; tarsi with stout black and reddish bristles; 
pubescence on legs short, black. Wings large, as long as the 
zbdomen, greyish; the dark shading distinct, extending nearly 
to the fork of the third vein and continued on the posterior 
border to the fifth posterior cell; the posterior fork of third 
vein has an abrupt curve inwards; the small cross-vein is 
beyond the middle of the discal cell. 
Female identical. The bristles near the mouth are yellow, 
not black. Axtenne with the third joint yellowish, not so 
long as the first joint, bearing a black a:ista almost twice its 
length. All the bristles on thorax are black ; the dorso- 
central bristles are fairly numerous, but many of them are 
weak, short, bristle-like hairs. Scute/lum is almost wholly 
reddish yellow, with black bristles. The light bands on 
the abdomen are yellower; the ovipositor is black, composed 
of the seventh and following segments, about as long as the 
fifth and sixth segments together. Fore femora with only 
four very strong black bristles, situated on the underside 
and interspersed with weak long black hairs, these are also — 
present on the middle femora, with seven more on the upper- 
side; on the hind femora five bristles below and eight on the 
upperside, besides two at apex ; the fore and middle tibiz 
have three very long, strong, black bristies on the underside 
and a few shorter stout ones above; the hind tibiz have one 
near the base and two pairs beyond, with two weak hair-like 
bristles on the outer side; the pubescence on the underside of 
tibiz and on the dorsum is yellow, elsewhere on the legs 
