Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilide. 75 
t 
three very strong black bristles and other smaller ones ; 
pubescence on the legs short, black; on the under edges of 
the tibiz some reddish-yellow hairs are distinct. Wings 
with the small transverse vein beyond the middle of the 
discal cell. 
Male is discoloured and damaged, but is no doubt the 
same species, though the femora appear almost destitute of 
strong black bristles, and some on the fore tibiz are yellow ; 
genitalia not very large, black. 
Heligmoneura sinensis, 3 2, Sp. n. 
Type (male) and type (female) from Tientsin, 25. 6. 06 
(Ff, M. Thomas), 1907, 200, and another female. 
A fair-sized blackish-brown species with paler segmenta- 
tions on the abdomen and Jegs wholly reddish yeilow. 
Antenne yellowish. Moustache composed of yellow bristles. 
lings clear, shaded at apex and on posterior border. 
Length, ¢ 15-20, 2? 17 mm. 
Male.—FKace covered with silky-yellow tomentum; the 
tubercle distinct, covered by the yellow moustache. Pali 
black, with long yellow bairs. Beard yellowish. Antenne 
yellowish, the “third joint wanting in all the specimens, 
Forehead a little darker than the hind part of head with 
stout, not very long, yellow bristles. YVhorax dark, with 
yellowish-grey tomentum, leaving a broad median blackish 
undivided aipe: with long yellowish bristles on the posterior 
part and short black pubescence on dorsum; the preesutural 
bristles two in number, one yellow, oue Apres one supra- 
alar and two postalar, all yellow. Scuéel/um with two yel ow 
bristles. Abdomen covered with dense yellowish-giey tom: n- 
tum, leaving a median dark stripe composed “of long or 
triangular spots; yellow bristles on each seyment, two or 
three in nimber, more numerous on the first segment; 
dorsum cover.d with yellow short pubescence. Genitalia 
chestnut-coloured, stout, and not very long with some sloit 
yellow pubescence. Legs reddish yellow, the bristles on the 
tibice yellow, with a few black ones intermixed. Femora 
somewhat incrassate, with chiefly black bristles; tarsi darker 
at their apices, with black bristles; the pubescence on legs 
short, yellow, dark on the outer sides of the tibise and on 
their dorsum. Wings with both branches of the fork of the 
third vein slightly curved. 
Female similar. The ovipositor black, quite as long as 
the last two segments, the small transverse vein in the 
middle of the dorsal cell. 
