21(5 Miss G. Ricardo on the Asilidse. 



sliorter ones elsewhere. Wings large, clear, the upper fork 

 of tlie third vein with an unusually slight angle inwards. 



Female identical. Legs with not quite so many long 

 yellow hairs. Palpi black-haired. Ovipusitur composed of 

 the last three segments of abdomen. 



Promachns heteroptcrus, Macq. 



Dipt. Exot. i. (2) p. 212 (1838) [Trupaneci], 



Two females from Bellarv District, Beeravalli, and Hada- 

 galli, S. India, in I. E. E. Coll. 



These females answer to Macquart's description, which is 

 as follows : — 



" Ashy grey. Abdomen with a large black spot on each 

 segment. Legs black. Wings yellow, the first posterior 

 cell closed. (PI. ix. fig. 3.) 



" Length, c?j 18 mm. 



" Face, nioutache, and beard white. Palpi with wliite hairs. 

 Forehead and hind partol' head with yellow hairs. Antennae 

 with the third joint somewhat elongated. Eyes violet. 



" From the coast of Malabar.^' 



A black species with narrow pale scp;mentations on tlie 

 white-haired abdomen. Seidell am\\\i\\ white hairs. Ovipusilur 

 short. These specimens measure 19 mm. 



A female from Berhampur, India, allied to this species 

 has a long oviposilur, i^ddish-yellow tibi-.r, and the first 

 |)osterior cell is only narrowed at the end, where it reaches 

 the border — this latter point agrees with the description of 

 Promachus rufoungulatus, Macq., but the author makes no 

 mention of the palc-colourcd tibise. 



Promachus calanus, Walker. 



Dipt. Saund. i. p. 122 [Trupanca'] (1851) ; et List Dipt. Brit. .Mns. vii,, 

 tSiippl. 3, p. (J07 [Trupanea] (1865). 



Type (female) from East India, C8. 4 (Walker Coll.). 



A species with an extraordinarily short abdomen^ the type 

 is in bad condition, but the abdomen is perfect. Jl'ings very 

 large. Ltgs stout, red, with fringes of black hairs. Mous- 

 tache yellow with a few black bristles below tlie pubescence 

 on forehead white. Antenmc wanting. Scutellum reddish 

 with white hairs. Abdomen with telescopic segments appears 

 brownish black with white hairs on basal segments. Ovi- 

 positor hardly discernible. 



Length 12, wing-length 18 mm. 



A female from Pundaluoya, Ceylon, is very mucli like it in 



