21'^ Miss G. Ricarclo on the Asilidre. 



reaches autennje. Palpi with pale hairs. Antenna 1)lack. 

 Forehead with yellow hairs anteriorly and black hairs 

 posteriorly. Bristles on occiput all yellow. Thorax covered 

 with brownish-yellow tomentum, stripes not very distinct, 

 posterior part of dorsum with black bristles and some 

 whitish hairs. Abdomen conical, stout ; pul)cscence white ou 

 the segmentations, black on the spots, white at the sides and 

 below. Ovipositor black, shining, very short. Legs bright 

 reddish ; the coxre, ajjices of femora, and tibiae and tarsi 

 deep black; pul)escence chiefly white, bristles black. Winys 

 iarge^ clear ; veins yellow. 



Promachus maculalus, Fabr. 



Svst. Ent. 794, 17 [Asilm] (1775), etc., see Kertesz Cat. 

 Fromachu$flaviharhix, Macq. Dipt. Exot. i. (2) p. 2V2 (1838) [ Trupanea]. 

 Promachus Ciipilhts, Walker, List l)i])t. ii. p. 389 (1849) \_Asilus] ; et vii., 

 Suppl. 3, p. 607 [7V-M/)««^rt] (1(^55). 



Type of P. copillus (male and female), from India. 



Males from Trincomalee, Hot Wells, Ceylon {Yerhury). 



Males and females from Bangalore {('apt. E. Y. JVatson). 



A female from Colombo [G. Meade IValdo). 



Maccpiart's species is evidently identical with this widely 

 distributed species, he describes the hind tarsi as black. 

 V. d. Wulp says they are darker. In the above specimens 

 the tarsi appear usually dark reddish with black apices or 

 nearly wholly black. 



A large species distinguished by the yellow bands on the 

 abdomen^ surrounding the usual black spots. Moustache 

 yellow. PaljA yellow-haired. ScuteUum with black bristles 

 and yellow hairs, (ienltalia with a tuft of white hairs, the 

 upper forceps large and forked, the inner part short, the 

 outer piece long, the lower forceps small, the last segment 

 is slightly produced ou the uiulerside. Ovipositor sliort. 

 Lef/s reddish. 



\\'icdemann gives the length as 24—28 mm. He remarks 

 it is not found in Italy as alleged, but he has examples from 

 the Caucasus. 



Promachus pseudomaculatus, sp. n. 



Type (male) from Nilaveli, Ceylon, 11). vii. 91 (Lt.-Col. 

 Yerburtj). 



Cotypes (two females) from same locality and Kuchavclli, 

 Ceylon. 



A large species very nearly allied to Promachus viaculatus, 

 F., l)ut the femora have a black stripe above and the tibiie at 

 apices and all tarsi are black. 



