72 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidee. 
long bristle-like hairs below, besides the long soft hairs; the 
bristles on the hind pair of femora do not appear to be so 
numerous; fore tarsi are enlarged as in male. /Vings as in 
the male are shaded at apex and on posterior border, and the 
small transverse vein is before the middle of the discal cell. 
Neoitamus neavensis, 2, 8p. N. 
Type (female) and five others, from 150-200 miles W. of 
Kambove, Congo Free State, 3500-4500 feet, 16. 10. 07 
(S. H. Neave), 1907, 230. 
A small black and grey species not unlike Neoilamus 
sodalis, Wulp, from Aden, according to the description, 
having no hairs or bristles on the seutellum; but Waulp 
makes no mention of the black stripe on the femora. 
Length 17 mm. 
Face covered with yellowish tomentum. Moustache seanty 
and yellow. Pa/pi black with yellow hairs. Antenne (broken 
off), the first joint black with dark hairs. Forehead *with 
some black hairs at sides. Thoraw covered with greyish 
tomentum, leaving apparent a very distinct velvety black 
median stripe divided anteriorly ; the side-stripes are repre- 
sented by two large black spots and ‘a small one; the two 
presutural bristles are stout, black; the supra-alar consist 
of one stout one and a weaker, the postalar being similar; 
the dorso-central bristles are weaker and few in number. 
Scutellum grey, with no signs of bristles or hairs. Abdomen 
with large black velvety spots and grey segmeutations, the 
sides are also grey, the first segment has a tuft of yellowish 
hairs at sides ; pubescence on ‘dors um very short and chiefly 
dark; the ovipositor includes the sixth and seventh segments 
and is about as long as the four preceding segments. Legs 
slender, reddish yellow ; the fore femora blackish on their 
upperside ; tibize biack at apices, the tarsi brownish from the 
second joint onwards, the middle femora also have a dark 
stripe, the hind pair are only black at their apices; only the 
middie and hind femora have bristles and then only two at 
the apex, with some very short pale yellow pubescence; the 
tibize have three or four each, one near the base with the 
same pubescence ; the first joint i is heavily armed with stout 
black bristles, most of them underneath, ‘and the following 
joints also have them. Wings clear, grey, the small trans. 
verse vein is situated beyond the middle of the discal cell 
towards the apex of the wing. 
