70 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 
white bristles and hairs. Genitalia small, stout, black with 
black hairs above and some yellow below: Legs black, the 
knees of the femora and the tibie, except at their apices, 
reddish yellow ; tarsi the same, blackish at the apices of the 
joints ; fore femora with two short yellow bristles above and 
some below intermixed with yellow, hairs, middle femora the 
same, hind femora with four above and four or more long 
ones ‘below, pubescence on all short and white; tibize with 
only white ‘bristles and c! hiefly yellowish pubescence : -) fore 
tarsi with some white bristles and black ones, the other pairs 
with fewer white ones. Wings clear, plist in apex hardly 
visible, small transverse vein beyond the middie. 
Female identical. The fore femora have black bristles 
below, and the fore tibie a long row on their uppersides. 
Ovipositor, composed of the last ‘three segmeuts, black. 
Neoitamus tarsalis, 8 9, sp. nN. 
Male (type) from Kandy, Ceylon, 28. 5. 92 (Lt.-Col, 
Yerbury), 1892, 122. 
Female (type) from Bentota, Ceylon, 13. 6. 91 (Lt.-Col. 
Yerbury), 1892, 122. | 
Two males from Trincomalee, 10 miles Kandy Road, 
same collector, 30. 5. 91 and 50. 8. 91. 
One male from Baduella, oe hen 5. 6. 92, same collector. 
A species not: unlike in generé al appearance NN, pulcher, 
sp. n., but at once distinguished by the broad first joint of 
fore tarsi armcd with very stout bristles. Leys reddish 
yellow ; femora largely black ; knees and apices of tibiz and 
the tarsi’black. Antenne black. Abdomen black, with broad 
grey segmentations. 
Length, g 18-19, ¢ 24 mm. with ovipositor. 
Male.—Face covered with silky yellow tomentum and 
hairs. Moustache on the not very prominent. tubercle, 
composed of whitish-yellow, long, weak bristles. Palpi black 
with yellow hairs, in the type some black bristles are present 
on the Pomaehe: Antenne blackish, the first two joints 
with black bristly hairs; the arista nearly double the length 
of the third joint, which is tinged reddish brown and is a 
little longer than the first joint. Forekead with black bristly 
hairs at the sides and on the central tubercle, hairs round 
the head white, four or five very stout black bristles are 
present each side of the frontal incision. Thorax covered 
with yellowish tomentum and with a distinctly marked 
median black stripe divided in the middle and two large 
blackish spots on each side; dorsum covered with short 
