fe Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidx. 
and from Khasi Hills, Assam, 97, 82; from Biserat, Siam 
(Robinson and Annandale), 1916, 21; and from Sandakaa, 
British N. Borneo (D. Cator), 98, 83. 
H. striata is distinguished from the above by not only the 
hind knees being black, but the posterior femora at apices 
and below and the ee tibiee and tarsi are all blackish ; 
the antenne are also blackish. 
In A. gnava and H. patruelis they are yellowish, and the 
legs in the latter are more like those of H. striata. H.lauta, 
described from a male only, is a large species, 16-22 mm. ; 
legs almost entirely reddish yellow. 
Heligmoneura indianus, § 9, sp. 0. 
Male (type), female (type), and two other females from 
Katagiri, 6000 feet, S. India, (F. Cragg). A medium-sized 
species, yellowish grey in colour, the legs almost wholly 
yellow. Moustache composed in the middle of long bristle- 
like yellow hairs, surrounded by several longer black bristles. 
Antenne blackish brown. Wi ings clear, shaded at apex and 
narrowly so on the posterior border. 
Length, ¢ 18, 2 17-18 mm. 
Female, ' “Face covered with silky-looking pale yellowish 
tomentum; tubercle small , covered by the moustache, which 
is continued on the sides of the epistome. Palpi black, with 
pale yellowish hairs. Antenne blackish brown, the first two 
joints with black hairs; the arista of third joint nearly as 
long as the joint. Beard pale yellowish; hairs round the 
head the same colour, reaching the postocula ir bristles, which 
are few in number and black. Forehead darker than the 
face, with black bristly hairs on each side. Yhorax with a 
distinct median brown stripe divided in the middle; dorsum 
of thorax with small bristles and a row of longer ones on 
each side of the stripe; preesutural bristles, supra-alar, and 
postalar bristles all two in number; the dorso-central bristles 
about six in number, with finer hair-hke bristles inter- 
nates Scutellum with two black bristles on its margin 
and some fine long yellow hairs between. Abdomen yellowish 
grey or yellowish brown, the segmentations narrowly paler 
in colour, the yellow bristles w eak and few in number; some 
appressed brighter-coloured pubescence on dorsum, thickest 
on the apical segments, elsewhere short and black ; ovipositor 
black, almost as long as the fourth, fifth, and sixth segments 
together. Legs yellowish red, with fine but numerous black 
bristles; fore femora with only soft yellow hairs, mid-femora 
with at least seven strong black bristles, hind femora with 
