Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. ia 
black pubescence. Preesutural bristles are very large ape 
stout, two in number, one supra-alar bristle only and thre 
postalar bristles ; the dorso-central bristles are only re epre- 
sented by some fine black hairs on each side and in the 
middle, those on the posterior part becoming bristly hairs ; 
the dorsum is covered with fine black hairs and some longer 
pale yellowish ones posteriorly and on the sides. Scutellum 
covered with grey tomentum and with six blackish bristles 
on its posterior border, in the other males some of these 
appear yellow; dorsum with pale yellowish pubescence. 
Abdomen with large brownish-black spots on each segment, 
proc dueed posteriorly, but not reaching the hind border which 
is covered with greyish-yellow tomentum forming a band on 
each segment continued up the sides; dorsum covered with 
short yellowish or white hairs and with the same at the 
sides; underside largely brown. Legs reddish yellow ; the 
fore and middle femora black at the base and apex, the hind 
pair blackish for two-thirds of their length with a black 
apex; the tibize with dark apices ; the middle and hind tarsi 
wholly brownish ; the fore femora with uo bristles, some loug 
soft hairs below, the middle pair with two stout black 
bristles at the apex, the hind pair with five on the upper- 
side and four or so below, and two stout ones at the apex ; 
the tibie with five or more black bristles on the upperside 
of the fore pair, and a crown of them at the apex; underside 
with long, soft, yellowish hairs; the middle pair with rather 
fewer bristles on the uppersides and no soft hairs below, 
the hind pair with four or so on the upper and under side 
and four at the apex ; the underside with a thick fringe of 
short yellowish -hairs, also present on the upperside, these 
are present but less noticeable on the middle tibize; tarsi 
with the first jomt enlarged and broad on the front pair and 
longer on the other pairs, on these last it is nearly as long 
as the four other joints together, all with numerous very 
stout black bristles at apex and on the underside, and with 
some yellowish hairs above, the other joints have fewer 
bristles ; pubescence on the legs is otherwise short and black. 
Wings not so long as the abdomen. Genitalia are large, 
with black hairs, some white ones on the apex. The other 
males appear identical, the bristles and colouring of legs 
being the same, but the abdomen has a more hoary pubes- 
cence. 
Female is identical. The bristles on the scutellum all 
black. Ovipositor very long, including the sixth and seventh 
segments, nearly as long as the first five segments. Legs 
not quite so dark; the fore femora with four or five weak 
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