65 ; Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidee. 
indistinct black stripe, all the bristles on legs are black, very 
numerous on the tarsi; femora almost bare, the posterior 
pair with a few. Wings pale brownish, clearer at the base, 
and often with clear kernels in the cells; the small trans- 
verse vein beyond the middle of the discal cell. 
Female identical; the ovipositor long, including the sixth 
and seventh segments. 
Neoiiamus siamensis, 6 9 , sp. n. 
Type (male) from Biserat, Siam, 9. 8. 1901 (H. C. 
Robinson and N. Annandale), 1916, 21. — ; 
Type (female) from K. Mabek, Siam, 138. 7. 1901. 
Another male and female from Biserat. 
Another male from Sungkie, Siam, 10. 2.1902; all by the 
same collector, 1916, 21. 
Another female from You Boi, Hainan, 5. 6.04; 1911, 
288. 
A small black species with wide grey segmentation on tlhe 
abdomen. Autennze and legs black, the tibize partly chamois- 
yellow in colour, 
Ihength, ¢ 15,°9 17mm. 
Male.—Face blackish covered with grey tomentum; the 
tubercle distinct. Moustache consists of chiefly whe 
bristles, two or three black ones intermixed. Palpi black 
with yellow hairs. Antenne blackish, the first two joints 
with bristly. black hairs. Forehead with the same; at vertex 
head with some strong black bristles, white hairs continued 
round head. Thorax blackish with grey tomentum, leaving 
the median black stripe distinct, narrowly divided, aud three 
greenish-black spots at sides, the posterior one very small ; 
pubescence on dorsum black. Preesutural bristles black, 
two in number; three supra-alar bristles, and two postalar 
bristles; the dorso-ceutral bristles represented by weak, 
bristly, black hairs, some very long. Scuted/wm covered with 
erey tomentum, and with white hairs, and two stout black 
bristles on its posterior border. Abdomen with the dark 
spots deep black, becoming brownish at sides; the grey 
segmentations are continued up the sides, becoming more 
golden yellow at base of segments; pubescence short and 
black on the dark spots, whitish and long on the segmenta- 
tions and at sides. Genitalia stout and complicated, black 
with black pubescence, and some reddish hairs on the upper 
piece. Legs blackish; the tibiz pale reddish yellow on their 
outer sides ; fore femora with no bristles, but with some 
scattered white hairs, the middle pair the same, but the 
